Description

Undoubtedly, a study of territories cannot be innocent. Territories are associated with private property and the constitution of states, with defense and aggression—male—at borders, with population regulation and the control of resources—including females.
However, for the philosopher of science Vinciane Despret (1959), it is not a matter of turning birds into models of morality or justice for humans, nor of denouncing the projection of ideological prejudices onto science. It is about tracing the interstices opened up in these impoverished habits of thought by ornithologists who cultivated other modes of observation, allied to the exuberance, richness, and variability displayed by birds, even among groups of the same species, even among individuals within the same groups. It is about opening the imagination to other territorialities and territorializations, so that sonorous and concerted territories may emerge, territories that are material for artistic expression and effect, territories with borders where "things happen," devices of enthusiasm, activators of potential, ways of organizing neighborhoods.

“There are, without a doubt, a great many ways of being inhabiting, which multiply worlds. I am convinced, along with Haraway and many others, that multiplying worlds can make our own more habitable. Creating more habitable worlds would then mean seeking how to honor ways of inhabiting, to inventory what territories imply and create as ways of being, as ways of doing. This is what I ask of researchers.” —Vinciane Despret

Authors
Vinciane Despret

Technical specifications
Edited by: Cactus
Year: 2022
Type: Book
Binding: Paperback
Dimensions: 14.5 x 21.5 cm
Weight: 250 gr
Spanish
Pages: 176
ISBN: 978-987-3831-66-9