They're part of what we are
Interspecies belonging, animal life and farming practice on the Isle of Skye
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tom Fry (University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 6 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 2495-2515 |
| Publication date | 2023-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486231151809 |
| OpenAlex | W4321600873 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 17 |
| References cited | 95 |
This article develops the concept of interspecies belonging: a process of co-habitation between humans and non-humans achieved through material, affective and situated practises. This dynamic is generative of an intimate, personal sense of belonging and a socio-spatial politics of belonging. The article is based on ethnographic fieldwork amongst hill farmers and the animals they live alongside on the Isle of Skye, North-West Scotland. It considers how farming work is an embodied and sensorial immersion in more-than-human worlds, undergirded by affective intensities that produce a feeling of being right with the world, but also of the farming self as producer of commodity goods. Within the fraught political ecologies of a post-productivist uplands, and the growing influence of nature conservation in farming life, they animate a political belonging aimed at protecting access to natural resources. I demonstrate how the imbrication of animal behaviours, mobilities and bodies within this dynamic of belonging shapes how they are understood as legitimate or illegitimate presences within upland landscapes. Through this, I consider how the recently reintroduced sea eagle is engaged with by farmers as an exemplar of exogenous institutional intervention that marginalises an already precarious way of life
Agriculture · Archaeology · Embodied cognition · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Feeling · Geography · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Human-Animal Interaction Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
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| Unique citing works | 17 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 8,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |