Human-Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9789004680609)

While providing a basis for all ecosystems, bugs such as insects and arachnids also destroy crops and indirectly kill humans and other animals by the millions. This book illuminates the many ways in which human lives affect and are affected by bugs as part of a wider network of species. 14 chapters reveal how knowledge, ideas, and emotions related to bugs are historically and culturally formed. With many bug populations in free fall, how can humans and bugs coexist? This book examines this question and offers a new ethics for this coexistence.

Contributors are Michaela Fenske, Minna Santaoja, Concepci?n Cort?s Zulueta, Heidi Mikkola, Laura Hollsten, Sophie FitzMaurice, Otto Latva, Marianne M?kelin, Taina Syrj?maa, Suvi Rytty, Sanna Lillbro?nda-Annala, Emily Webster, Karine Aasgaard Jansen, Heta L?hdesm?ki, and Tuomas R?s?nen.

Author: Laura Hollsten
ISBN-10: 9004680608
ISBN-13: 9789004680609
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 12/06/2024
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover