P G Keil
Biographic Data
| ID | 57549 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P G Keil |
| GIVEN NAMES | P G |
| FAMILY NAME | Keil |
| SIGNATURE | KEIL P G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macquarie University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6577-3045 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Feral at Home: The Rogue Trajectory and Unexpected Relations of a “Feral Pig”
A feral pig in Australia is an introduced pig who lives beyond the constraints of human husbandry or expresses wild physiological traits. These animals are typically characterized as alien, overwhelmingly destructive, and toxic. The only acceptable relation is to kill them. I met Pig-pig during a series of interviews — she was a wild-caught pig living on the property of Scott, a pig hunter. Primarily drawn from conversations with Scott, this pape…
Exchanges with a hungry god
Ecological Entanglements: Affect, embodiment, and ethics of care
Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]
Unmaking the Feral
Domesticated pigs (Sus scrofa) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s concept of “unmaking”—a process that fractures relationality in service of control—to articulate the relational violence done to the free-living pig by naming it a feral animal…
Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
Rank atmospheres: The more‐than‐human scentspace and aesthetic of a pigdogging hunt
Pigdogging is a popular pastime in Australia, a form of recreational hunting whereby people collaborate with dogs to chase and catch wild pigs. This paper analyses the hunt as an interspecies event that unfolds through the sensual and sensory entanglements of human and nonhuman, with a particular focus on the perspectives of the hunters. The concept of ‘atmosphere’ will be employed to frame an ethnographic analysis of two facets of pigdogging. Fi…
On the Trails of Free-Roaming Elephants: Human-Elephant Mobility and History across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands
Humans and elephants have historically shared the forested mountain ranges of Zomia, a geography defined by the regular movement of people and an ecology shaped by the movement of its elephant population. This article will examine how free-roaming elephant pathways facilitated human mobility in the highlands defining the Indo-Myanmar border. It will analyze the more-than-human agency that emerges when following elephant trails and the varying rol…
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas
Relationships with animals in India take varied forms, both practical and symbolic, from domestic to wild domains, and in sympathetic or antagonistic interactions. Centred on the Kumaon division in
Uncertain encounters with wild elephants in Assam, Northeast India
On the odd occasion, wild elephants in rural Assam, Northeast India, reveal themselves to be more-than-animal. For people living on the fringes of the forest, they are god-like creatures with supernatural powers of perception, able to grasp the hidden intentions and moral character of people. Drawing on ethnographic observations, animist literature, theories of witchcraft, and frameworks that foreground the different perceptual worlds of nonhuman…
Human-Sheepdog Distributed Cognitive Systems: An Analysis of Interspecies Cognitive Scaffolding in a Sheepdog Trial
Humans coordinate with other people and technological resources in order to become integrated into distributed cognitive systems and engage the world in ways beyond their naked capacities. This paper extends the distributed cognitive framework towards human and dog partnerships at a sheepdog trial, arguing that by scaffolding the sheepdog’s cognitive limitations and inability to tackle the trial independently, the human handler forms with the can…
Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts
In everyday life remembering occurs within social contexts, and theories from a number of disciplines predict cognitive and social benefits of shared remembering. Recent debates have revolved around the possibility that cognition can be distributed across individuals and material resources, as well as across groups of individuals. We review evidence from a maturing program of empirical research in which we adopted the lens of distributed cognitio…
We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older Couples
Transactive memory theory describes the processes by which benefits for memory can occur when remembering is shared in dyads or groups. In contrast, cognitive psychology experiments demonstrate that social influences on memory disrupt and inhibit individual recall. However, most research in cognitive psychology has focused on groups of strangers recalling relatively meaningless stimuli. This study examined social influences on memory in groups wi…
The psychology of memory, extended cognition, and socially distributed remembering
Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts
In everyday life remembering occurs within social contexts, and theories from a number of disciplines predict cognitive and social benefits of shared remembering. Recent debates have revolved around the possibility that cognition can be distributed across individuals and material resources, as well as across groups of individuals. We review evidence from a maturing program of empirical research in which we adopted the lens of distributed cognitio…
We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older Couples
Transactive memory theory describes the processes by which benefits for memory can occur when remembering is shared in dyads or groups. In contrast, cognitive psychology experiments demonstrate that social influences on memory disrupt and inhibit individual recall. However, most research in cognitive psychology has focused on groups of strangers recalling relatively meaningless stimuli. This study examined social influences on memory in groups wi…
Uncertain encounters with wild elephants in Assam, Northeast India
On the odd occasion, wild elephants in rural Assam, Northeast India, reveal themselves to be more-than-animal. For people living on the fringes of the forest, they are god-like creatures with supernatural powers of perception, able to grasp the hidden intentions and moral character of people. Drawing on ethnographic observations, animist literature, theories of witchcraft, and frameworks that foreground the different perceptual worlds of nonhuman…
Human-Sheepdog Distributed Cognitive Systems: An Analysis of Interspecies Cognitive Scaffolding in a Sheepdog Trial
Humans coordinate with other people and technological resources in order to become integrated into distributed cognitive systems and engage the world in ways beyond their naked capacities. This paper extends the distributed cognitive framework towards human and dog partnerships at a sheepdog trial, arguing that by scaffolding the sheepdog’s cognitive limitations and inability to tackle the trial independently, the human handler forms with the can…
Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
The psychology of memory, extended cognition, and socially distributed remembering
We Remember, We Forget: Collaborative Remembering in Older Couples
Transactive memory theory describes the processes by which benefits for memory can occur when remembering is shared in dyads or groups. In contrast, cognitive psychology experiments demonstrate that social influences on memory disrupt and inhibit individual recall. However, most research in cognitive psychology has focused on groups of strangers recalling relatively meaningless stimuli. This study examined social influences on memory in groups wi…
Couples as socially distributed cognitive systems: Remembering in everyday social and material contexts
In everyday life remembering occurs within social contexts, and theories from a number of disciplines predict cognitive and social benefits of shared remembering. Recent debates have revolved around the possibility that cognition can be distributed across individuals and material resources, as well as across groups of individuals. We review evidence from a maturing program of empirical research in which we adopted the lens of distributed cognitio…
Human-Sheepdog Distributed Cognitive Systems: An Analysis of Interspecies Cognitive Scaffolding in a Sheepdog Trial
Humans coordinate with other people and technological resources in order to become integrated into distributed cognitive systems and engage the world in ways beyond their naked capacities. This paper extends the distributed cognitive framework towards human and dog partnerships at a sheepdog trial, arguing that by scaffolding the sheepdog’s cognitive limitations and inability to tackle the trial independently, the human handler forms with the can…
Uncertain encounters with wild elephants in Assam, Northeast India
On the odd occasion, wild elephants in rural Assam, Northeast India, reveal themselves to be more-than-animal. For people living on the fringes of the forest, they are god-like creatures with supernatural powers of perception, able to grasp the hidden intentions and moral character of people. Drawing on ethnographic observations, animist literature, theories of witchcraft, and frameworks that foreground the different perceptual worlds of nonhuman…
Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas
Relationships with animals in India take varied forms, both practical and symbolic, from domestic to wild domains, and in sympathetic or antagonistic interactions. Centred on the Kumaon division in
On the Trails of Free-Roaming Elephants: Human-Elephant Mobility and History across the Indo-Myanmar Highlands
Humans and elephants have historically shared the forested mountain ranges of Zomia, a geography defined by the regular movement of people and an ecology shaped by the movement of its elephant population. This article will examine how free-roaming elephant pathways facilitated human mobility in the highlands defining the Indo-Myanmar border. It will analyze the more-than-human agency that emerges when following elephant trails and the varying rol…
Rank atmospheres: The more‐than‐human scentspace and aesthetic of a pigdogging hunt
Pigdogging is a popular pastime in Australia, a form of recreational hunting whereby people collaborate with dogs to chase and catch wild pigs. This paper analyses the hunt as an interspecies event that unfolds through the sensual and sensory entanglements of human and nonhuman, with a particular focus on the perspectives of the hunters. The concept of ‘atmosphere’ will be employed to frame an ethnographic analysis of two facets of pigdogging. Fi…
Unmaking the Feral
Domesticated pigs (Sus scrofa) were introduced as livestock in Australia by European settlers, and now a large population is living wild. Rather than interrogate the settler pig as co-colonizer and destroyer of Australian ecologies, this article employs Deborah Bird Rose’s concept of “unmaking”—a process that fractures relationality in service of control—to articulate the relational violence done to the free-living pig by naming it a feral animal…
Dodo dilemmas: Conflicting ethical loyalties in conservation social science research
In a time of deepening social and ecological crises, the question of research ethics is more pertinent than ever. Our intervention grapples with the specific personal, ethical, and methodological challenges that arise at the interface of conservation and social science. We expose these challenges through the figure of Chris, a fictional anonymised composite of our fraught diverse fieldwork experiences in Australia, Burma, Indonesian Borneo, Namib…
Exchanges with a hungry god
Ecological Entanglements: Affect, embodiment, and ethics of care
Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic E-mail: [email protected]
The Feral at Home: The Rogue Trajectory and Unexpected Relations of a “Feral Pig”
A feral pig in Australia is an introduced pig who lives beyond the constraints of human husbandry or expresses wild physiological traits. These animals are typically characterized as alien, overwhelmingly destructive, and toxic. The only acceptable relation is to kill them. I met Pig-pig during a series of interviews — she was a wild-caught pig living on the property of Scott, a pig hunter. Primarily drawn from conversations with Scott, this pape…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (6 works) · Geography (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Biology (5 works) · Environmental ethics (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Cognition (3 works)