Between a Bird-in-the-Hand and Species Data in the Bank
Intermittent Care in Conservation Science
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2353255 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Selen Eren (0000-0001-9453-4350, University of Groningen, corresponding author), Anne Beaulieu (0000-0002-2431-8975, University of Groningen) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 69-87 |
| Publication date | 2025-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/02632764231187584 |
| OpenAlex | W4385616854 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 42 |
Intense interspecies engagements are central to the work of ecologists, as they seek to understand our rapidly changing world. To explore researcher-bird engagements in ecological fieldwork, we use a lens of care. Taking as a starting point the widely shared photos of bird-in-the-hand that portray situations where individual birds become sources of data about populations, we show the significance of complex care work in ethically and epistemically loaded moments. Crucial knowledge about survival, biodiversity loss and animal welfare emerges at the intersection of multispecies care for individuals, for populations and for knowledge infrastructures. We put forth the concept of intermittent care to explain the changing concerns for individual birds here-and-now or for populations of the future. Attention to care therefore helps unravel how ecological knowing depends on entanglements between humans, nature, and technologies that take shape through a constant negotiation of different strands and matters of multispecies care
Biodiversity · Biodiversity conservation · Biology · Citizen science · Conservation science · Economics · Environmental ethics · Environmental resource management · Geography · Intersection (aeronautics · Negotiation · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation · Ecology
Rethinking Repair
Towards an empirical ethics in care
Rethinking Research Ethics for Mediated Settings
Care in Practice
Infrastructures as Ontological Experiments
Animals, Plants, People, and Things
Biodiversity and species extinction
Matters of care
Turning crowds into communities
One infrastructure, many global visions
Trackable life
Public Attunement with More-than-Human Others
Counting Corncrakes
Naturecultures? Science, Affect and the Non-human
Managing Love and Death at the Zoo
The politics of care in technoscience
Wildlife in the Digital Anthropocene
Caring for the Multiple and the Multitude
Caring for the Collective
Ethics, Space, and Somatic Sensibilities
"The "bander's grip
When research animals become pets and pets become research animals
Nothing Comes Without Its World
Performing the Classification of Nature
Tangles of Care
Uncharismatic Invasives
Care-full research ethics in multispecies relations on dairy farms
Care, Laboratory Beagles and Affective Utopia
Habituating Meerkats and Redescribing Animal Behaviour Science
Responding Bodies and Partial Affinities in Human-Animal Worlds
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
Realizing Potential in Translational Medicine
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |