Eben Kirksey: Comprehending West Papua

Friday, February 25, 2011

Comprehending West Papua

This is a remote video presentation about Eben's forthcoming book, "Freedom in Entangled Worlds", that he presented at the conference on West Papua organized by the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney in February 2011.

Recorded Lectures

November 28, 2018 International Summit on Human Genome Editing, Hong Kong.

March 31, 2017, Deakin University, Department of Anthropology, PODCAST: "Lively Multispecies Communities, Deadly Racial Assemblages"

January 26, 2017, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota: VIDEO: "Multispecies Families."

April 14-15, 2016, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Paris), Domestication and Hybrid Communities.

Feb 29, 2016, Hope in an Era of Extinction, Princeton University, with Cary Wolfe, Genese Sodikoff, Ashley Dawson, Maria Whiteman, David Wilcove, and Graham Burnett, Kevin Esvelt, and Beth Shapiro.YouTube VIDEO.

Feb 24, 2016,Emergent Ecologies NYC Book Launch, James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City with Rob Nixon, Anne McClintock, Julie Livingston, and Ashley Dawson. Soundcloud PODCAST.

May 26, 2015, Rachael Carson Center, Munich Germany, VIDEO: "Living With Parasites”

Books & Edited Collections

Eben's edited collection, The Multispecies Salon, explores a series of entangled questions: Which species flourish, and which fail, when natural and cultural worlds intermingle and collide? What happens when the bodies of organisms, and even entire ecosystems are enlisted in the schemes of biotechnology and the dreams of biocapitalism? And finally, in the aftermath of disaster--in blasted landscapes that have been transformed by multiple catastrophes--what are the possibilities of biocultural hope.

Writing in collaboration with Stefan Helmreich he coined the term "multispecies ethnography" to describe new approaches for studying contact zones where the lines separating nature and culture have broken down.

Eben first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. Later he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of a dynamic social movement in West Papua. Duke University Press published this study as a book,Freedom in Entangled Worlds, in 2012.

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Friday, February 25, 2011

Comprehending West Papua

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