{"title":"Starting to care: making place with microbes","authors":"M. McConnell","doi":"10.1177/14744740231158604","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Despite the many conversations in the environmental humanities about care and making kin with the more-than-human, there has been little focus on the sourdough starter and its relation with human cultivators. This essay works alongside the sourdough starter to encourage the growth of these conversations – their rise – by using a material geography framework and emphasizing the practices of care through which microbes and humans can explore new ways of knowing. This approach allows for explorations of new notions of place-making and generates questions of ethical working alongside when the thing-place being cultivated is consumed by the cultivator.","PeriodicalId":47718,"journal":{"name":"Cultural Geographies","volume":"30 1","pages":"525 - 537"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Cultural Geographies","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14744740231158604","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Despite the many conversations in the environmental humanities about care and making kin with the more-than-human, there has been little focus on the sourdough starter and its relation with human cultivators. This essay works alongside the sourdough starter to encourage the growth of these conversations – their rise – by using a material geography framework and emphasizing the practices of care through which microbes and humans can explore new ways of knowing. This approach allows for explorations of new notions of place-making and generates questions of ethical working alongside when the thing-place being cultivated is consumed by the cultivator.
期刊介绍:
Cultural Geographies has successfully built on Ecumene"s reputation for innovative, thoughtful and stylish contributions. This unique journal of cultural geographies will continue publishing scholarly research and provocative commentaries. The latest findings on the cultural appropriation and politics of: · Nature · Landscape · Environment · Place space The new look Cultural Geographies reflects the evolving nature of its subject matter. It is both a sub-disciplinary intervention and an interdisciplinary forum for the growing number of scholars or practitioners interested in the ways that people imagine, interpret, perform and transform their material and social environments.