Abstract
This chapter discusses affective traces or lines amidst the meshwork of humans/elephants/plants/land in Sri Lanka. Drawing on affective ecologies, in which humans are one among many types of ecological actors, we learn here from farmers about their experiences and about elephants through farmers’ perspectives. We also learn from the regions’ ecologies, exploring ways that affect speaks to power and possibilities for mutually-beneficial cohabitation. In this chapter, affective ecologies provide an aperture to help describe the deeply dialogic and relational processes in which elephants and farmers navigate landscapes; their actions and states are responses to others and to globalized forces, connecting the micro and macro. This lens embraces complexities that mirror the wicked nature and multi-system context for crop loss by elephants and habitat loss for elephants.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Titel | Composing Worlds with Elephants : Interdisciplinary Dialogues |
| Redaktører | Nicolas Laine, Paul Keil, Katijah Rahmat |
| Udgivelsessted | Paris |
| Forlag | IRD |
| Publikationsdato | 2023 |
| Sider | 49-65 |
| Kapitel | 2 |
| ISBN (Trykt) | 9782709929936 |
| ISBN (Elektronisk) | 9782709929943, 9782709929950 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2023 |