Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction. Rubber Boots Methods: Outline for a Multispecies Study of the Anthropocene
Nils Bubandt, Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen, and Rachel Cypher
Part I. Critical Description
1. Walking in Italian Forests and Telling Stories about Global Environmental Change
Andrew S. Mathews
2. Interpreting Dwarf Shrub Patterns in the Lesotho Highlands
Colin Hoag
3. Tracking as Method: Perspectival Sensibilities in a More-than-Human Desert of Tracks
Pierre du Plessis
4. Plants of Internal Colonization: Critical Descriptions of Agrarian Change through Plant Agencies in South India
Daniel Münster
Part II. Curiosity
5. Drip Torch Inquiries: Meta-Questions for Ambiguous Forests
Jon Rasmus Nyquist
6. Tidalectic Ethnography: Snorkeling the Coral Reefs of the Anthropocene
Nils Bubandt
7. Stickiness in a Monsoon Air Methodology
Harshavardhan Bhat
8. Cattle Tracks in the Dust: Riding the Margins of the Anthropocene in the Pampas of Argentina
Rachel Cypher
Part III. Collaboration
9. Marine Hitchhikers and Nested Holobionts: Is the Aquarium Trade Creating Weedy Sponge Invaders?
Joseph Klein, Stine Vestbo, Peter Funch, and Anna Tsing
10. Anthropological Sensations: A High Arctic Travelogue
Kirsten Hastrup, Janne Flora, and Astrid Oberborbeck Andersen
11. Becoming Disturbed in Disturbing Landscapes: Methodology and Epistemology in Anthropocene Wastelands
Meredith Root-Bernstein, Filippo Bertoni, Natalie Forssman, and Katy Overstreet
12. Cholera, Common Ground, and Project Drafts: Messages in a Bottle
Nathalia Brichet
13. Rubber Boots Methods beyond the Field: Transformative Possibilities and Institutional Barriers in University Contexts
Heather Anne Swanson
Afterword. Troubling Methods in the Anthropocene: A Roundtable Discussion
Kirsten Hastrup, Ursula Münster, Anna Tsing, and Nils Bubandt
Contributors
Index