Multispecies Encounters
About the Book Series
Multispecies Encounters provides an interdisciplinary forum for the discussion, development and dissemination of research focused on encounters between members of different species. Re-evaluating our human relationships with other-than-human beings through an interrogation of the ’myth of human exceptionalism’ which has structured (and limited) social thought for so long, the series presents work including multi-species ethnography, animal geographies and more-than-human approaches to research, in order not only better to understand the human condition, but also to situate us holistically, as human animals, within the global ecosystems we share with countless other living beings. As such, the series expresses a commitment to the importance of giving balanced consideration to the experiences of all social actors involved in any given social interaction, with work advancing our theoretical knowledge and understanding of multi-species encounters and, where possible, exploring analytical frameworks which include ways or kinds of ’being’ other than the human.
Animals and Landscapes: Multispecies Locations, Space and Place
1st Edition
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By Claire Parkinson, Brett Mills
January 22, 2026
This volume explores various connections between animals and landscapes, challenging traditional anthropocentric framings and acknowledging the agency of other-than-human species in shaping human surroundings. A critical departure from traditional perspectives, Animals and Landscapes challenges the...
Interspecies Emotional Labour: Unspoken Expectations of Professionalism in Guide Dog Work
1st Edition
By Tiamat Warda
December 03, 2025
This book explores the topic of interspecies emotional labour through the work of guide dogs and their instructors. The skill of managing emotions to present oneself with the professionalism required is referred to as emotional labour. Extending practitioner knowledge and emotional labour theory to...
Human-Animal Relationships in Times of Pandemic and Climate Crisis: Multispecies Sociology for the New Normal
1st Edition
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By Josephine Browne, Zoei Sutton
November 28, 2025
This book situates sociological research as a vital tool for understanding, and responding to, the multispecies entanglements that cause, inform and arise from states of crisis involving the environment, climate and zoonotic disease transmission. Considering the consequences of a range of ...
Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies
1st Edition
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By Brianne Donaldson
August 01, 2025
Knowing Life examines the limits of dominant knowledge forms that contribute to current practices negatively affecting more-than-human beings, while also exploring alternative approaches to knowing that are capable of reducing harm and maximizing planetary thriving. Specifically, this volume seeks ...
The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs
1st Edition
By Otto Latva
November 29, 2024
This book builds upon the extensive study of the historical relationship between sea animals and humans in transatlantic culture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It exposes the present understanding of the human relationship with the giant squid not only as too simplistic but also as...
Cat People: Human–Cat Interrelatedness in the Cat Fancy
1st Edition
By Emily Stone
May 27, 2024
This book examines the social world of the cat fancy, or the leisure activity of breeding and exhibiting pedigree cats. Based on multispecies ethnographic fieldwork and interviews in the United Kingdom, it explores the process and performance of exhibiting cats at shows, the breeding practices and ...
Animal Lives and Why They Matter
1st Edition
By Arne Johan Vetlesen
October 13, 2023
This book engages with the changing ways in which we, as a society and culture, look upon and interact with animals, stressing how much animals differ among themselves. An invitation to appreciate the peculiar role of animals in telling important if uncomfortable truths about who we are and where ...
Living-With Wisdom: Permaculture and Symbiotic Ethics
1st Edition
By Alexander Badman-King
January 09, 2023
Living-With Wisdom explores the way in which ancient Greek models of philosophy as an attempt to live ‘the good life’ can and should be realised through the practice of permaculture. Following the thought of Plato and Aristotle, the author places the achievement of wisdom and fulfilment at the ...
Totemism and Human–Animal Relations in West Africa
1st Edition
By Sharon Merz
January 09, 2023
This book explores human–animal relations amongst the Bebelibe of West Africa, with a focus on the establishment of totemic relationships with animals, what these relationships entail and the consequences of abusing them. Employing and developing the concepts of "presencing" and "the ontological ...
Blogging Wildlife: The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail
1st Edition
By Kate Marx
August 01, 2022
This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explores the ways in which humans relate to the animals with whom they temporarily share a home. With attention to the themes of pilgrimage, the changing ...
Human-Canine Collaboration in Care: Doing Diabetes
1st Edition
By Fenella Eason
June 30, 2021
Adopting an anthrozoological perspective to study the participation of non-human animals in regimes of care, this book examines the use of canine scent detection to alert 'hypo-unaware' individuals to symptoms of human chronic illness. Based on ethnographic research and interviews, it focuses on ...
Anthropology and Cryptozoology: Exploring Encounters with Mysterious Creatures
1st Edition
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By Samantha Hurn
June 30, 2020
Cryptozoology is best understood as the study of animals which, in the eyes of Western science, are extinct, unclassified or unrecognised. In consequence, and in part because of its selective methods and lack of epistemological rigour, cryptozoology is often dismissed as a pseudo-science. However, ...