Interwoven Human and More-than-Human Worlds: Methods and Practices of a Rhizomatic Turn
Autor Sayan Deyen Limba Engleză Hardback – 5 iun 2026
Despite the production of several policies, coalitions, and doctrines, the root causes of environmental violence, such as the reckless expansion of cities, roads, highways, shopping complexes, and residential areas, remain unaddressed. This book unpacks the dangers of ‘eco-epistemic ambivalences’ and eco-suicidal ‘kamikaze mindsets’ on the one hand, and to realize our response-abilities towards this planet's natural environment and biodiversity through multiple forms of rhizomatic turns and sub-turns. It thereby presents various rhizomatic methods that can be practiced in everyday life to interweave human and more-than-human knowledge systems.
The book is will be of interest for postgraduate students, early-career researchers, and experience academics engaged in the fields of environmental humanities, cultural studies, urban studies, environmental management, geography, sociology, anthropology, history, critical waste studies, climate change, posthumanities, climate politics, environmentalism, public humanities, critical diversity literacy, teaching and learning methods, and environmental research methods.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781032917191
ISBN-10: 1032917199
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1032917199
Pagini: 168
Ilustrații: 40
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Academic, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate AdvancedCuprins
1. Labyrinth: Turning From...Turning With...Turning Towards... 2. A Narratological Turn 3. A Vegetal Turn 4. An Aesthetic Turn 5. A Pedagogical Turn 6. Turning Into...: Confusions, Chasms And Chaos
Recenzii
“Sayan Dey has written a beautifully provocative book that offers a geography from below to challenge imperial anthropomorphism, corporate greenwashing, and consumerism. He invites us to practice ontological humility, gentleness, and sensuousness, insisting on a rhizomatic, multispecies accountability that spans fractured ecologies. From the recentring of intergenerational accounts of monsters to the recognition of memories embedded in forests and the embodied, personal encounters with rivers, trees, and dreams, Dey realises a decolonial ethics and a vision for a more-than-human commons.”
Amber Murray, University of Oxford
“Strongly rooted in multispecies case studies from India and broader Indigenous communities in the Global South, Sayan Dey’s project offers an exemplary contribution to expanding the scope of global environmental humanities.”
Kiu-wai Chu, Nanyang Technological University
“Professor Dey’s monograph makes a bold contribution to reimagining eco-centric pedagogical and scholarly practices through shared narratological experiences of eco-entanglements that recenter nature at the nucleus of knowledge creation. Using a phenomenologically focused autoethnographic approach, Professor Dey critically analyzes the extended material impact of human centrism while embracing planetary-centered principles rooted in indigenous knowledge systems as a guide for inspiring new ways of rhizomatically being and thinking with both human and more-than-human worlds.”
Chantal Noa Forbes, California Institute of Integral Studies
“In the search for pathways out of the global ecological collapse generated by currently dominant 'materialistic-capitalistic-industrial modes of living', moving towards rhizomatic forms of living and relating to the rest of nature is crucial. This book provides exciting visions of how this may be done.”
Ashish Kothari, co-editor, Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
“The governing principle of the universe is harmony, balance, and natural rhythm. Cooperation with this inherent unity of the universe in all its manifestations ensures the mutual survival and flourishing of all life, above all, humans. Sayan Dey makes a compelling case for the healing of the broken relationships by marshalling the power of the rhizomatic turn into current development thinking.”
Thakur S Powdyel, former Minister of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan
“Using graphic examples, this remarkable book by Sayan Dey is an eloquent and impassioned call for an intertwined sensuous epistemology to replace the anthropocentric reduction, subjection, and exploitation of the more than human world. Its critique cuts deep into the hypocrisy of greenwashing by corporate greed and ideological politics. At a time when the geosphere and biosphere are increasingly in revolt against the centuries of abuse by modern humans, Dey draws powerful attention to the human suffocation of nature and invokes an eco-centric and rhizomatic displacement. Here, our body intuitions of deep relationality with the earth lead and order our cultural practices towards a new amity with the more than human and an urgent revisioning of civilization.”
Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Sayan Dey speaks to the present through learning from the past not only through the poetic philosophical insights of Rabindranath Tagore on humanity and nature on one hand and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s generative conceptualization of rhizomes on the other, but also, through the imaginative poetics of his argument, Sri Aurobindo, as he articulates catastrophic consequences of unbridled human material growth devoid of spiritual attunement, flourishing, and responsibility. Beautifully written with a sober sense of urgency, Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds is a must-read for scholars, students, and lay-readers committed to the project, despite these perilous times, of what Dey aptly calls “living futures.”
Lewis R. Gordon, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut, and co-author, with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age
"Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds provides a wide-ranging and original engagement with human–more-than-human relations, situating rhizomatic thinking as a generative framework for reconsidering ecological practices, cultural narratives, and environmental ethics."
Sophie Chao, University of Sydney
Amber Murray, University of Oxford
“Strongly rooted in multispecies case studies from India and broader Indigenous communities in the Global South, Sayan Dey’s project offers an exemplary contribution to expanding the scope of global environmental humanities.”
Kiu-wai Chu, Nanyang Technological University
“Professor Dey’s monograph makes a bold contribution to reimagining eco-centric pedagogical and scholarly practices through shared narratological experiences of eco-entanglements that recenter nature at the nucleus of knowledge creation. Using a phenomenologically focused autoethnographic approach, Professor Dey critically analyzes the extended material impact of human centrism while embracing planetary-centered principles rooted in indigenous knowledge systems as a guide for inspiring new ways of rhizomatically being and thinking with both human and more-than-human worlds.”
Chantal Noa Forbes, California Institute of Integral Studies
“In the search for pathways out of the global ecological collapse generated by currently dominant 'materialistic-capitalistic-industrial modes of living', moving towards rhizomatic forms of living and relating to the rest of nature is crucial. This book provides exciting visions of how this may be done.”
Ashish Kothari, co-editor, Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary
“The governing principle of the universe is harmony, balance, and natural rhythm. Cooperation with this inherent unity of the universe in all its manifestations ensures the mutual survival and flourishing of all life, above all, humans. Sayan Dey makes a compelling case for the healing of the broken relationships by marshalling the power of the rhizomatic turn into current development thinking.”
Thakur S Powdyel, former Minister of Education, Royal Government of Bhutan
“Using graphic examples, this remarkable book by Sayan Dey is an eloquent and impassioned call for an intertwined sensuous epistemology to replace the anthropocentric reduction, subjection, and exploitation of the more than human world. Its critique cuts deep into the hypocrisy of greenwashing by corporate greed and ideological politics. At a time when the geosphere and biosphere are increasingly in revolt against the centuries of abuse by modern humans, Dey draws powerful attention to the human suffocation of nature and invokes an eco-centric and rhizomatic displacement. Here, our body intuitions of deep relationality with the earth lead and order our cultural practices towards a new amity with the more than human and an urgent revisioning of civilization.”
Debashish Banerji, Haridas Chaudhuri Professor of Indian Philosophies and Cultures, California Institute of Integral Studies
"Sayan Dey speaks to the present through learning from the past not only through the poetic philosophical insights of Rabindranath Tagore on humanity and nature on one hand and Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s generative conceptualization of rhizomes on the other, but also, through the imaginative poetics of his argument, Sri Aurobindo, as he articulates catastrophic consequences of unbridled human material growth devoid of spiritual attunement, flourishing, and responsibility. Beautifully written with a sober sense of urgency, Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds is a must-read for scholars, students, and lay-readers committed to the project, despite these perilous times, of what Dey aptly calls “living futures.”
Lewis R. Gordon, Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Global Affairs at the University of Connecticut, and co-author, with Jane Anna Gordon, Of Divine Warning: Reading Disaster in the Modern Age
"Interwoven Human and More-Than-Human Worlds provides a wide-ranging and original engagement with human–more-than-human relations, situating rhizomatic thinking as a generative framework for reconsidering ecological practices, cultural narratives, and environmental ethics."
Sophie Chao, University of Sydney
Notă biografică
Sayan Dey is an Assistant Professor and Department Chair (English Studies) at Bayan College (affiliated with Purdue University Northwest) in Oman. His latest works are Garbocracy: Towards a Great Human Collapse and Palates of Pleasure: Food, Memories and Culture. He was awarded the Nicolas Cristobal Guillen Batista Outstanding Book Award for Performing Memories and Weaving Archives in 2025 by the Caribbean Philosophical Association.
Descriere
This book is an urgent invitation, provocation and proposal to devise possible theories, methods, and practices of eco-entangled, cobwebbed, symbiotic, and chaotic forms of existence between human and more-than-human species.