What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human
An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations, this article explores alignments bet...
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ftoslouniv:oai:www.duo.uio.no:10852/96160 2023-05-15T17:39:23+02:00 What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human ENEngelskEnglishWhat’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human Lien, Marianne Elisabeth 2022-09-04T17:19:18Z http://hdl.handle.net/10852/96160 http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-98671 https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712511 EN eng http://urn.nb.no/URN:NBN:no-98671 Lien, Marianne Elisabeth . What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human. Environmental Humanities. 2022, 14(2), 457-474 http://hdl.handle.net/10852/96160 2048631 info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=Environmental Humanities&rft.volume=14&rft.spage=457&rft.date=2022 Environmental Humanities 14 2 457 474 https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712511 URN:NBN:no-98671 Fulltext https://www.duo.uio.no/bitstream/handle/10852/96160/1/What%2527s%2Blove%2Bgot%2Bto%2Bdo%2Bwith%2Bit%2BEH.pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ CC-BY-NC-ND 2201-1919 Journal article Tidsskriftartikkel Peer reviewed PublishedVersion 2022 ftoslouniv https://doi.org/10.1215/22011919-9712511 2022-09-07T22:35:22Z An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations, this article explores alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. Juxtaposing two ethnographic sites in Norway, salmon aquaculture and nature conservation, Marianne E. Lien argues that ethical conduct calls for relational interspecies commitment beyond mere affect: enchantment offers no guarantee of animal welfare. But nor does a set of legal regulations. The first section of this article explores the practical enactment of sentient salmon in Norwegian aquaculture, and details interspecies response-ability and care through practices where legal regulations and affective registers intersect. In the second section Lien turns to what some call untouched nature, while others call it home, and shows how enchantment of nature in the abstract may legitimate the dispossession of the vital relations between local people and their worlds. Both cases suggest the need to pay close attention to relational and vernacular arts of noticing that have been cultivated by others. Shifting our attention from the outsider’s gaze as an affective enchantment toward the relationality of others, we may notice the myriad of generative interspecies relations that unfold quietly, in a minor chord, and often in unexpected places. The article draws on extensive fieldwork within aquaculture production sites in western Norway and in the coastal regions of Varanger, North Norway. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human Article in Journal/Newspaper North Norway Varanger Universitet i Oslo: Digitale utgivelser ved UiO (DUO) Norway Environmental Humanities 14 2 457 474 |
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An ethics of care in nature conservation must ask not only whose voices are heard, but also which interspecies relations that come to matter. Inspired by Jane Bennett’s question about how ethical codes are transformed into laudable acts in interspecies relations, this article explores alignments between affective enchantment and interspecies response-ability. Juxtaposing two ethnographic sites in Norway, salmon aquaculture and nature conservation, Marianne E. Lien argues that ethical conduct calls for relational interspecies commitment beyond mere affect: enchantment offers no guarantee of animal welfare. But nor does a set of legal regulations. The first section of this article explores the practical enactment of sentient salmon in Norwegian aquaculture, and details interspecies response-ability and care through practices where legal regulations and affective registers intersect. In the second section Lien turns to what some call untouched nature, while others call it home, and shows how enchantment of nature in the abstract may legitimate the dispossession of the vital relations between local people and their worlds. Both cases suggest the need to pay close attention to relational and vernacular arts of noticing that have been cultivated by others. Shifting our attention from the outsider’s gaze as an affective enchantment toward the relationality of others, we may notice the myriad of generative interspecies relations that unfold quietly, in a minor chord, and often in unexpected places. The article draws on extensive fieldwork within aquaculture production sites in western Norway and in the coastal regions of Varanger, North Norway. What’s Love Got to Do with It? Care, Curiosity, and Commitment in Ethnography beyond the Human |
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