More-than-human health in an interdependent world

Datum
13. Jan­u­ar 2025 

Invi­ta­tion for a panel

Invi­ta­tion to the ‚More-than-human health in an inter­de­pen­dent world’ panel
Health, Envi­ron­ment, and Anthro­pol­o­gy (HEAT) Conference
Con­venors: Wim Van Daele (UiA), Hei­di Fjeld (UiO), Jelle Wouters (RTC), and Ele­na Neri (UiA)
Durham Uni­ver­si­ty (UK) April 23–24, 2025.

Abstract of max­i­mum 250 words via the Abstract Man­age­ment Por­tal at lat­est by 13 Jan­u­ary 2025. The web­site includes guid­ance on how to select the pan­el and to sub­mit your abstract. We look for­ward to receiv­ing your abstracts.

Pan­el Abstract:
The con­cepts of One Health, Plan­e­tary Health, and Eco-Health fore­ground the depen­den­cy of human health on the health of the envi­ron­ment. In sci­en­tif­ic prac­tice, these con­cepts tend to focus most­ly on the sci­en­tif­ic bio­log­i­cal and tan­gi­ble social aspects of the inter­de­pen­den­cies between the human and non-human aspects of health, neglect­ing the role played by intan­gi­ble and invis­i­ble oth­er-than-human enti­ties. Hence, we adopt the notion of “more-than-human health” to enhance atten­tive­ness to dif­fer­ent onto­log­i­cal and relat­ed (micro)biosocial prac­tices of human and oth­er-than-human health and well-being across the world.
This pan­el invites con­tri­bu­tions that explore com­plex inter­de­pen­den­cies and entan­gle­ments between human beings and visible/tangible and invisible/intangible oth­er-than human enti­ties that in their entan­gle­ment shape more-than-human health. We invite inter­dis­ci­pli­nary ori­ent­ed papers that exam­ine the (micro)biosocial con­nec­tions between invis­i­ble and (sci­en­tif­i­cal­ly made) vis­i­ble aspects in the more-than-human inter­de­pen­dent prac­tice of craft­ing health and well­be­ing across dif­fer­ent sit­u­a­tions and ontolo­gies. We wel­come par­tic­u­lar­ly papers that attest to the sit­u­at­ed (micro)biosocialities with­in these onto­log­i­cal prac­tices in more-than-human health. This can include, but is not lim­it­ed to, papers explor­ing entan­gle­ments between:

-rit­u­al prac­tices and microbiomes
‑Cos­mol­o­gy, cli­mate change, and chang­ing health practices
‑Super­nat­ur­al enti­ties, ani­mals, and microbiomes
‑Epi­ge­net­ics, stress and food environments

and more under­ex­plored interdependencies…