In response to the pressing need re‐constitute ways we live with non‐humans, more‐than‐human geography's distinctive contribution has been describe an ethics based not on ‘certain subjects’ but relational entanglement of life: show that ‘we’ are connected and thus invited care. This paper aims suggest, however, this diagnostic obscures as much it reveals detachment, relation, provides everyday ethic can accommodate difference. I do by analysing how life is stuck together pulled apart in...

Giant isopods are one of the star attractions in Toba Aquarium, Japan.Under normal circumstances these crustaceans live at depth on cold, dark ocean floor, scavenging flesh from dead fish and whales.Their alien appearance, as well strangeness their lives, instills a combination fascination, fear, disgust aquarium visitor.In 2007, specimen-29 centimetres long weighing just over kilogram-was plucked waters off Mexican coast sent to aquarium.He was named Isopod No.1.No.1 refused eat for first...

Geoengineering, especially its potentially fast and high‐leverage versions, is often justified as a necessary response to possible future climate emergencies. In this article, we take the notion of ‘necessity’ in international law starting point assessing how rapid, geoengineering might be legally. The need specify reliably ‘grave imminent peril’ makes such justification difficult because our scientific ability predict abrupt change, for example, tipping elements, limited. time it takes...

National identity in many post‐colonial states is predicated on nature being outside and antecedent to culture the colonial project. This paper questions historical essentialist assumptions underpinning this vision using New Zealand as a case study, particular Christchurch Botanic Gardens nineteenth century. I argue that were site multi‐species extension of space, but far from docile entities, non‐humans kicked back change very Zealand's eco‐nationalist project described not only an attempt...

In this article I suggest that fantasies of apocalypse are both a product and producer the Anthropocene. Although images narratives contemporary environmental have usually been understood as politically regressive postpolitical distractions, demonstrate more hopeful reading is possible. Apocalypse tells us human currently configured in Anthropocene—an ideal universal subject who energized through fossil fuels has elevated to position ecological mastery—cannot continue indefinitely. This...

Turfgrass yards dominate the residential landscapes of St Petersburg, Florida, and much rest urban suburban United States. Increasingly, alternatives to resource-intensive turfgrass lawn are focus interest among environmentalists, state county governments, growing numbers residents in cities water-scarce Southeast Southwest. Drawing on ethnographic survey field research everyday yard practices, resource use, landscape perceptions, we explore environmental cultural dilemmas presented by...

AbstractThe neoliberalization of universities is creating an increasingly instrumental, market-focused approach to higher education. This paper focuses on Masters dissertation supervision in the UK, which date has been understudied and recent changes education have left a precarious position. It presents collaborative reflection process conducted by students author at University Edinburgh. Expanding interventions concerning geography, academy, I suggest that communality, ambiguity collective...

This article considers what we might learn about landscape from how certain gardeners respond to death, absence and afterlife. After situating the domestic garden amid recent work on landscapes of memory in geography, presents a circuit four movements: passing, touching, weeding sitting. Each draws encounters with experienced living British suburbs. In particular, these movements focus on: commemorabilia, including plants, which offer possibility materialize anchor something would otherwise...

Abstract Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal for decades. This article attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal's former colonies, and racial urban geography thrown into relief differing fortunes of white Portuguese community spaces. Conceptualising gardens as commons‐in‐the‐making, we explore subaltern urbanism emergence autonomous commons on one hand, state erasure, overwriting or construction top‐down other. While showing that...

As bats adapt to anthropogenic environmental change they increasingly interact with humans and inhabit human infrastructure. This article addresses the challenge of learning live synanthropic bats. Building on ideas from multispecies studies, we explore practices accommodations that coproduce meaningful human-bat cohabitation in domestic space. Drawing qualitative research conducted Netherlands, find space is remade small but significant ways response The aim our interviewees ensure minimal...

The sudden decline of bee pollinator populations worldwide has caused significant alarm, not least because Apis mellifera, the European honeybee, is thought to be responsible for pollination 71 100 crop species which provide 90% world's food supply. Here we investigate response colony collapse disorder a committed group beekeepers who live in southern England, UK. These are inspired by writings Rudolf Steiner and principles biodynamic agriculture, they care deeply about bees. Drawing on...

This article examines India's response to the global soil health crisis. A longstanding centre of agricultural production and innovation, India has recently launched an ambitious programme. The country's Soil Health Card (SHC) Scheme intervenes in farm-scale decisions about efficient fertiliser use, envisioning farmers as managers a substrate for production. is also home one world's largest alternative agriculture movements: natural farming. puts farmer expertise at fertility attends wider...

Drawing upon the personal reflections of geographical educators in Brazil, Canada, UK, and US, this Forum provides a state-of-the-discipline review teaching history geography; identifies practical pedagogical challenges associated with that teaching; offers suggestions provocations as to future innovation. The shows how geography is valued – tool identity making, device for cohort building professionalization, means interrogating disciplinary present but also it challenged by neoliberal...

The fractured timespace of the Anthropocene brings distant pasts and futures into present. Thinking about deep time is challenging: strange warps our sense belonging relationships to Earth forces creatures. introduction this special section builds on scholarship in environmental humanities concerning ongoing inheritance biological geologic processes that stretch back past as well opening up multiple vistas futures. Rather than understanding an abstract concept, we explore how manifests...

This qualitative study draws on in‐depth interviews and documentary analysis conducted between 2014 2016 to investigate the nature of pro‐environmental behaviour members within Eco‐Congregation Scotland network. We argue for an integrative analytical frame, that we call “eco‐theo‐citizenship,” which synthesises strengths values‐, practice‐ citizenship‐based approaches specific context religious environmental groups. finds groups studied are not primarily issue driven, instead have emphasis...

Who cares about other species? How can we know creatures, their worlds, wants or even desires? And what is the relationship between knowing and caring? Such questions have been animatin...