Anna Tsing
Biographic Data
| ID | 73564 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Anna Tsing |
| GIVEN NAMES | Anna |
| FAMILY NAME | Tsing |
| SIGNATURE | TSING A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Anthropology Department University of California 1156 High Street Santa Cruz CA 95064 USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1291 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Réponse commune des autrices de Gens
1. Quelle a été l’impulsion initiale à la rédaction du Manifeste Gens ? Pourriez-vous nous dire ce qui vous a attirées dans le format « manifeste » ? Gens est né d’un constat que nous partagions toutes : il existait un nombre important de travaux théoriques en anthropologie sur le capitalisme n’étant pas reconnus ou cités en tant que tels. Au lieu de cela, les apports anthropologiques sur le capitalisme se cantonnaient au statut d’exemples ou d’i…
Indigenous Voice
The global indigenous movement is alive with promising contradictions. This chapter examines the task of laying out a historically concrete history of divergent indigeneities. In Indonesia, the phrase used as an equivalent for “indigenous peoples” is masyarakat adat. However, the effective translation of the transnational indigenous movement goes beyond the problem of words. The meaning of the phrase “indigenous peoples,” in its local translation…
A multispecies ontological turn
This is a “peacemaking” chapter at the confrontational edges of ontological and multispecies anthropologies, respectively. Rather than fight out (or make high theory from) the differences between these approaches, the chapter shows how it is possible to use both together. Annemarie Mol’s practice-based ontologies are a particular aid in this. For this purpose, however, practitioners must open themselves to multiple, cosmopolitan ontologies among …
Using Natural History in the Study of Industrial Ruins
As industrial processes leave much of the planet in ruins, novel encounters are emerging. To study weedy succession in a former brown coal mining area in Denmark, as part of the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) project, the authors undertake field observations over time and propose renewed attention to natural history. In this paper, the authors follow mycorrhizal fungi and trees as a conjuncture of natural and social histori…
Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin
How Things Hold
This article experiments with combining three concepts— coordination, assemblage, diagram—to make vivid the composition of a satoyama forest in central Japan. The forest comes to life as a more-than-human assemblage that emerges through coordinations established by evolutionary and historical accommodations to life cycles, seasonal rhythms, and activity patterns. These coordinations are expressed through a diagram of intersecting temporalities of…
Résurgence holocénique contre plantation anthropocénique
La « soutenabilité » est le rêve de transmettre une terre habitable aux générations futures, humaines et non-humaines. Cet article soutient qu'une soutenabilité digne de ce nom exige la résurgence d'un modèle multi-espèces, en résistance aux tendances de la colonisation capitaliste qui transforme tout en plantations de monoculture. Pour affronter les défis de l'Anthropocène, nous devons faire davantage attention aux socialités qui se trament entr…
Anthropologists Are Talking - About Capitalism, Ecology, and Apocalypse
Capitalist enterprise is transforming the world, reshaping the registers of what Felix Guattari (2000) has called the three ecologies: namely those of the environment, of social relations, and of h
Feminism and the Anthropocene
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
Earth Stalked by Man
To take the concept of the Anthropocene seriously requires engagement with global history. But what 'global' shall this be? In honour of the work of Marilyn Strathern, this essay explores that planetary Anthropocene composed of fragments that do not fit together at all, and yet necessarily do. At the centre of my concerns are the awkward relations between what one might call 'machines of replication' - those simplified ecologies, such as plantati…
Writing and rhythm
Margens Indomáveis
Neste artigo, Anna Tsing explora os cogumelos matsutake como "espécies companheiras", destacando sua capacidade de prosperar em paisagens perturbadas pela ação humana. Ela argumenta que a atenção aos matsutake e suas relações ecológicas oferece uma lente para compreender a colaboração multiespécie e a construção de mundos em ruínas. Ao traçar as jornadas transnacionais dos matsutake, desde as florestas do Oregon até os mercados japoneses, Tsing e…
Less Than One But More Than Many
How might one responsibly review a field just coming into being-such as that provoked by the term Anthropocene? In this article, we argue for two strategies. First, working from the premise that the Anthropocene field is best understood within its emergence, we review conferences rather than publications. In conference performances, we glimpse the themes and tensions of a field-to-come. Second, we interpret Anthropocene as a science-fiction conce…
Sorting out commodities
Far from being a self-enclosed system, capitalism is unable to create most of the skills, relations, and resources it needs to function. Capitalist accumulation depends on converting stuff created in varied ways, including photosynthesis and animal metabolism, into capitalist commodities. Capitalist commodities thus come into value by using-and obviating-non-capitalist social relations, human and non-human. How is this done? This article shows th…
Ordinary Catastrophe
Frictions
The term friction is derived from descriptions of the physical world, where it refers to the resistance to relative motion between bodies in contact. Considerations of friction entered studies of globalization as a counterpoint to stories of “friction‐less” transnational flows of goods, ideas, people, and money. Such stories were popular in the 1990s among scholars and pundits caught up in the excitement of globalization who thus imagined a new w…
Unruly Edges
Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway's concept of companion species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human disturbance history with feminist multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The home cordons off inter- and intra-specie…
Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom
Anna Tsing, for the
Beyond economic and ecological standardisation
Supply chain capitalism forages among the ruins of military and industrial landscapes—and so do real foragers, such as Southeast Asian refugees picking wild mushrooms in the US Pacific Northwest for commercial shipment to Japan. This essay explores how supply chain dynamics thrive on deregulation and diversity, encouraging cultural and ecological variety as a source of profit. Supply chain values are created through diversity—and sometimes, disas…
Politics, History, and Culture
Comments delivered during Anu Lounela’s public defense of her Ph.D. Dissertation, ‘Contesting Forests and Power: Dispute, Violence, and Negotiations in Central Java’, September 26, 2009
A new form of collaboration in cultural anthropology
Experiments in collaboration open new investigative possibilities for cultural anthropologists. In this report, we use our research on matsutake mushrooms to show the promise of collaborative experiments for ethnographers of scale making, global connection, and human-nonhuman relations. Anna Tsing introduces. Mogu Mogu (Timothy Choy and Shiho Satsuka) argue that the mushroomic figure of mycorrhizal life illuminates workings of capital and power, …
Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals
The Global Situation
The Global Situation
Unruly Edges
Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway's concept of companion species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human disturbance history with feminist multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The home cordons off inter- and intra-specie…
Inside the Economy of Appearances
Research Article| January 01 2000 Inside the Economy of Appearances Anna Tsing Anna Tsing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 115–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Anna Tsing; Inside the Economy of Appearances. Public Culture 1 January 2000; 12 (1): 115–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-115 Downl…
Sorting out commodities
Far from being a self-enclosed system, capitalism is unable to create most of the skills, relations, and resources it needs to function. Capitalist accumulation depends on converting stuff created in varied ways, including photosynthesis and animal metabolism, into capitalist commodities. Capitalist commodities thus come into value by using-and obviating-non-capitalist social relations, human and non-human. How is this done? This article shows th…
A new form of collaboration in cultural anthropology
Experiments in collaboration open new investigative possibilities for cultural anthropologists. In this report, we use our research on matsutake mushrooms to show the promise of collaborative experiments for ethnographers of scale making, global connection, and human-nonhuman relations. Anna Tsing introduces. Mogu Mogu (Timothy Choy and Shiho Satsuka) argue that the mushroomic figure of mycorrhizal life illuminates workings of capital and power, …
Less Than One But More Than Many
How might one responsibly review a field just coming into being-such as that provoked by the term Anthropocene? In this article, we argue for two strategies. First, working from the premise that the Anthropocene field is best understood within its emergence, we review conferences rather than publications. In conference performances, we glimpse the themes and tensions of a field-to-come. Second, we interpret Anthropocene as a science-fiction conce…
Anthropologists Are Talking - About Capitalism, Ecology, and Apocalypse
Capitalist enterprise is transforming the world, reshaping the registers of what Felix Guattari (2000) has called the three ecologies: namely those of the environment, of social relations, and of h
Earth Stalked by Man
To take the concept of the Anthropocene seriously requires engagement with global history. But what 'global' shall this be? In honour of the work of Marilyn Strathern, this essay explores that planetary Anthropocene composed of fragments that do not fit together at all, and yet necessarily do. At the centre of my concerns are the awkward relations between what one might call 'machines of replication' - those simplified ecologies, such as plantati…
Margens Indomáveis
Neste artigo, Anna Tsing explora os cogumelos matsutake como "espécies companheiras", destacando sua capacidade de prosperar em paisagens perturbadas pela ação humana. Ela argumenta que a atenção aos matsutake e suas relações ecológicas oferece uma lente para compreender a colaboração multiespécie e a construção de mundos em ruínas. Ao traçar as jornadas transnacionais dos matsutake, desde as florestas do Oregon até os mercados japoneses, Tsing e…
Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science
Feminism and the Anthropocene
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Résurgence holocénique contre plantation anthropocénique
La « soutenabilité » est le rêve de transmettre une terre habitable aux générations futures, humaines et non-humaines. Cet article soutient qu'une soutenabilité digne de ce nom exige la résurgence d'un modèle multi-espèces, en résistance aux tendances de la colonisation capitaliste qui transforme tout en plantations de monoculture. Pour affronter les défis de l'Anthropocène, nous devons faire davantage attention aux socialités qui se trament entr…
Writing and rhythm
The Global Situation
Inside the Economy of Appearances
Research Article| January 01 2000 Inside the Economy of Appearances Anna Tsing Anna Tsing Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Public Culture (2000) 12 (1): 115–144. https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-115 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Anna Tsing; Inside the Economy of Appearances. Public Culture 1 January 2000; 12 (1): 115–144. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-12-1-115 Downl…
Anthropologists as Public Intellectuals
Anthropologists Are Talking' About Anthropology After Globalisation
Diverging Understandings of Forest Management in Matsutake Science
Beyond economic and ecological standardisation
Supply chain capitalism forages among the ruins of military and industrial landscapes—and so do real foragers, such as Southeast Asian refugees picking wild mushrooms in the US Pacific Northwest for commercial shipment to Japan. This essay explores how supply chain dynamics thrive on deregulation and diversity, encouraging cultural and ecological variety as a source of profit. Supply chain values are created through diversity—and sometimes, disas…
Politics, History, and Culture
Comments delivered during Anu Lounela’s public defense of her Ph.D. Dissertation, ‘Contesting Forests and Power: Dispute, Violence, and Negotiations in Central Java’, September 26, 2009
A new form of collaboration in cultural anthropology
Experiments in collaboration open new investigative possibilities for cultural anthropologists. In this report, we use our research on matsutake mushrooms to show the promise of collaborative experiments for ethnographers of scale making, global connection, and human-nonhuman relations. Anna Tsing introduces. Mogu Mogu (Timothy Choy and Shiho Satsuka) argue that the mushroomic figure of mycorrhizal life illuminates workings of capital and power, …
Arts of Inclusion, or, How to Love a Mushroom
Anna Tsing, for the
Ordinary Catastrophe
Frictions
The term friction is derived from descriptions of the physical world, where it refers to the resistance to relative motion between bodies in contact. Considerations of friction entered studies of globalization as a counterpoint to stories of “friction‐less” transnational flows of goods, ideas, people, and money. Such stories were popular in the 1990s among scholars and pundits caught up in the excitement of globalization who thus imagined a new w…
Unruly Edges
Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway's concept of companion species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human disturbance history with feminist multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The home cordons off inter- and intra-specie…
Sorting out commodities
Far from being a self-enclosed system, capitalism is unable to create most of the skills, relations, and resources it needs to function. Capitalist accumulation depends on converting stuff created in varied ways, including photosynthesis and animal metabolism, into capitalist commodities. Capitalist commodities thus come into value by using-and obviating-non-capitalist social relations, human and non-human. How is this done? This article shows th…
Writing and rhythm
Margens Indomáveis
Neste artigo, Anna Tsing explora os cogumelos matsutake como "espécies companheiras", destacando sua capacidade de prosperar em paisagens perturbadas pela ação humana. Ela argumenta que a atenção aos matsutake e suas relações ecológicas oferece uma lente para compreender a colaboração multiespécie e a construção de mundos em ruínas. Ao traçar as jornadas transnacionais dos matsutake, desde as florestas do Oregon até os mercados japoneses, Tsing e…
Less Than One But More Than Many
How might one responsibly review a field just coming into being-such as that provoked by the term Anthropocene? In this article, we argue for two strategies. First, working from the premise that the Anthropocene field is best understood within its emergence, we review conferences rather than publications. In conference performances, we glimpse the themes and tensions of a field-to-come. Second, we interpret Anthropocene as a science-fiction conce…
Earth Stalked by Man
To take the concept of the Anthropocene seriously requires engagement with global history. But what 'global' shall this be? In honour of the work of Marilyn Strathern, this essay explores that planetary Anthropocene composed of fragments that do not fit together at all, and yet necessarily do. At the centre of my concerns are the awkward relations between what one might call 'machines of replication' - those simplified ecologies, such as plantati…
Feminism and the Anthropocene
This assessment of the field explores a confluence of feminist thinking about the 20th-century Great Acceleration in the United States: post-World-War II projects of modernization made the security of white nuclear families global models of well-being, while banishing the work of their securitization to non-white sacrifice zones—which eventually came to encompass most of the earth. “Anthropocene” is thus a project of making race and gender as muc…
A multispecies ontological turn
This is a “peacemaking” chapter at the confrontational edges of ontological and multispecies anthropologies, respectively. Rather than fight out (or make high theory from) the differences between these approaches, the chapter shows how it is possible to use both together. Annemarie Mol’s practice-based ontologies are a particular aid in this. For this purpose, however, practitioners must open themselves to multiple, cosmopolitan ontologies among …
Using Natural History in the Study of Industrial Ruins
As industrial processes leave much of the planet in ruins, novel encounters are emerging. To study weedy succession in a former brown coal mining area in Denmark, as part of the Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA) project, the authors undertake field observations over time and propose renewed attention to natural history. In this paper, the authors follow mycorrhizal fungi and trees as a conjuncture of natural and social histori…
Feral Dynamics of Post-Industrial Ruin
How Things Hold
This article experiments with combining three concepts— coordination, assemblage, diagram—to make vivid the composition of a satoyama forest in central Japan. The forest comes to life as a more-than-human assemblage that emerges through coordinations established by evolutionary and historical accommodations to life cycles, seasonal rhythms, and activity patterns. These coordinations are expressed through a diagram of intersecting temporalities of…
Résurgence holocénique contre plantation anthropocénique
La « soutenabilité » est le rêve de transmettre une terre habitable aux générations futures, humaines et non-humaines. Cet article soutient qu'une soutenabilité digne de ce nom exige la résurgence d'un modèle multi-espèces, en résistance aux tendances de la colonisation capitaliste qui transforme tout en plantations de monoculture. Pour affronter les défis de l'Anthropocène, nous devons faire davantage attention aux socialités qui se trament entr…
Anthropologists Are Talking - About Capitalism, Ecology, and Apocalypse
Capitalist enterprise is transforming the world, reshaping the registers of what Felix Guattari (2000) has called the three ecologies: namely those of the environment, of social relations, and of h
Indigenous Voice
The global indigenous movement is alive with promising contradictions. This chapter examines the task of laying out a historically concrete history of divergent indigeneities. In Indonesia, the phrase used as an equivalent for “indigenous peoples” is masyarakat adat. However, the effective translation of the transnational indigenous movement goes beyond the problem of words. The meaning of the phrase “indigenous peoples,” in its local translation…
Sociology (14 works) · Political science (11 works) · Biology (9 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Ecology (7 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (6 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works)