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Chemosociality in multispecies worlds endangered frogs and toxic possibilities in Sydney

Kirksey, Scott 2020, Chemosociality in multispecies worlds endangered frogs and toxic possibilities in Sydney, Environmental Humanities, vol. 12, no. 1, pp. 23-50, doi: 10.1215/22011919-8142198.

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Title Chemosociality in multispecies worlds endangered frogs and toxic possibilities in Sydney
Author(s) Kirksey, ScottORCID iD for Kirksey, Scott orcid.org/0000-0001-6067-1525
Journal name Environmental Humanities
Volume number 12
Issue number 1
Start page 23
End page 50
Total pages 28
Publisher Duke University Press
Place of publication Durham, N.C.
Publication date 2020-05-01
ISSN 2201-1919
2201-1919
Keyword(s) 2000 OLYMPIC GAMES
afterlife
Arts & Humanities
Arts & Humanities - Other Topics
chemoethnography
chemopower
ETHNOGRAPHY
extinction studies
GREEN
Humanities, Multidisciplinary
LITORIA-AUREA
multispecies ethnography
RECLAIMED LANDS
WASTE
Summary AbstractChemosocial communities have formed in Sydney, Australia, as a result of encounters with industrial pollution. If biosociality involves social relationships that emerge from biological conditions, then chemosociality involves altered, attenuated, or augmented relationships that emerge with chemical exposures. Some social groups have coalesced around place-based political action, while other chemosocial associations have proved to be ephemeral, evanescent, and conditional. Building on earlier work by multispecies ethnographers who have studied social relationships among humans and animals, this article follows chemicals into more-than-human realms. Fragile multispecies worlds have emerged in a complex landscape shaped by chemical weapons industries, municipal landfills, government remediation programs, real estate speculation, and a multitude of chemical and biological agents. Legacy dumping grounds in the Sydney Olympic Park have become habitat for the green and golden bell frog, an endangered species. While the normal world order of this frog has been lost with the spread of a deadly fungal disease, toxic chemicals have enabled the continuation of its social life. Temporary spaces of immunity have emerged where life is protected and threats are negated by poisonous compounds that double as a cure.
Language eng
DOI 10.1215/22011919-8142198
Indigenous content off
Field of Research 2002 Cultural Studies
2103 Historical Studies
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Free to Read? Yes
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30132681

Document type: Journal Article
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