Domestication Gone Wild

“What do Pacific salmon, British falcons, pine trees everywhere, Ifugao pigs and spirits, and Norwegian apples have in common? They perform ‘domestication’ in ways certain to change the narratives and politics of domestication for scholars of whatever discipline and for critter people all over the earth. Read this book for up-to-the-minute, deeply researched, very smart, contentious takes on the shapes of conjoined humans and nonhumans living and dying together in diverse histories of civilization, colonialism, capitalism, times-past, and times-yet-to-come. Perhaps what opens up in this book are real possibilities for caring more materially in urgent times.” - Donna J. Haraway, author of Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene

“Domestication Gone Wild provides an important intervention in the ways we understand domestication as a kind of developmental stage in world civilization. Its contributors examine how slippery the boundaries are between ‘domestic’ and ‘wild.’ A significant contribution to debates in environmental humanities, posthumanist philosophy, and the politics of difference, this volume will appeal to a broad audience concerned with the ethics of living in a time of ecological crisis.” - Laura A. Ogden, author of Swamplife: People, Gators, and Mangroves Entangled in the Everglades

"Highly recommended for students and researchers interested in human/nonhuman relationships. ... Highly recommended. Advanced undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - E. N. Anderson, Choice

"Not only this collection’s varied perspectives, but also its emerging questions, form a welcome contribution to the study of human/non-human relationships in our troubled times of extractivism and anthropogenic climate change." - Juan Javier Rivera Andía, PoLAR