{"id":5343,"date":"2017-01-27T15:03:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-27T20:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=5343"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:45:02","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T18:45:02","slug":"eben-kirksey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/eben-kirksey\/","title":{"rendered":"Eben Kirksey"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5258\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5343-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ebenkirksey.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ebenkirksey.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ebenkirksey.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a 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https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Eben_Kirksey_Occupy.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Eben_Kirksey_Occupy.jpg?resize=624%2C936&amp;ssl=1 624w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Eben_Kirksey_Occupy.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5344\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eben Kirksey at at Zuchotti Park in 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ebenkirksey.blogspot.com\/\">Eben Kirksey<\/a> studies the political dimensions of imagination as well as the interplay of natural and cultural history.\u00a0 Duke University Press has published his two books\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/freedom-in-entangled-worlds\"><i>Freedom in Entangled Worlds<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/emergent-ecologies\"><i>Emergent Ecologies<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(2015)\u2014as well as one edited collection: The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.multispecies-salon.org\/\"><i>Multispecies Salon<\/i><\/a>\u00a0(2014).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Dr. Kirksey is perhaps best known for his work in multispecies ethnography\u2014a field that mixes ethnographic, historical, ethological, and genetic methods to study spaces where humans and other species meet.\u00a0 He first entered this field as an editor and curator.\u00a0 \u201cThe Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography,\u201d a special issue of\u00a0<i>Cultural Anthropology\u00a0<\/i>co-edited with Stefan Helmreich, situates contemporary scholarship on animals, microbes, plants, and fungi within deeply rooted traditions of environmental anthropology, continental philosophy, and the sociology of science.\u00a0 Collaborations with bioartists, who work with living matter as their media, produced\u00a0<i>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.multispecies-salon.org\/\">Multispecies Salon<\/a><\/i>, an edited book which brought together insights from the humanities on the microbiome, health, food, environmental justice, and synthetic biology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/emergent-ecologies\"><i>Emergent Ecologies<\/i><\/a>, his latest book monograph (Duke: 2015), explores <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5345 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Emergent-Ecologies-cover.jpg?resize=198%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Emergent-Ecologies-cover.jpg?resize=198%2C300&amp;ssl=1 198w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/Emergent-Ecologies-cover.jpg?w=379&amp;ssl=1 379w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/>how chance encounters, historical accidents, and parasitic invasions have shaped present and future multispecies communities.\u00a0 The book asks: \u201cHow do certain plants, animals, and fungi move among worlds, navigate shifting circumstances, and find emergent opportunities?\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Eben Kirksey first went to West Papua, the Indonesian-controlled half of New Guinea, as an exchange student in 1998. As a British Marshall Scholar at Oxford University, and a doctoral student under James Clifford at UC Santa Cruz, he later studied a popular indigenous political movement in West Papua.\u00a0 Kirksey&#8217;s research\u00a0morphed as he discovered that collaboration, rather than resistance, was the primary strategy of indigenous Papuan leaders. Accompanying indigenous activists to Congressional offices in Washington D.C., Kirksey saw the revolutionaries&#8217; knack for getting inside institutions of power and building coalitions with unlikely allies. \u00a0<i>Freedom in Engangled Worlds<\/i>, his first book, blends ethnographic research with indigenous parables to illustrate\u00a0visions of dramatic transformations on coming horizons.\u00a0 Papuans have visions of a future when they will give away their natural resources in grand humanitarian gestures, rather than watch their homeland be drained of timber, gold, copper, and natural gas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\"><span class=\"s1\">Princeton University hosted Dr. Kirksey as the 2015-2016 Currie C. and Thomas A. Barron Visiting Professor and he is currently an Executive Program Committee Member of the American Anthropological Association (AAA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">The books mentioned in the interview are\u00a0<span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dukeupress.edu\/geontologies\">Geoontologies <\/a>by Elizabeth A. Povinelli a<\/span><span class=\"s1\">nd <a href=\"http:\/\/www.feministpress.org\/books-n-z\/testo-junkie\">Testo Junkie<\/a> by Paul B. Preciado.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/143422907\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/143422907\">Emergent Ecologies: Parasites<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user5243090\">Multispecies Salon<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ebenkirksey.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listEben Kirksey studies the political dimensions of imagination as well as the interplay of natural and cultural history.\u00a0 Duke University Press has published his two books\u2014Freedom in Entangled Worlds\u00a0(2012) and\u00a0Emergent Ecologies\u00a0(2015)\u2014as well as one edited collection: The\u00a0Multispecies Salon\u00a0(2014). 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