Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Opening
5. Narrating the Multispecies World in Times of Crises 13
6. Communicating
7. The Sofa as a Habitat: Daisy 27
8. Conversations with a Spider 31
9. Listen to the Birds 47
10. Caring
11. Greening Our Thumbs 73
12. The Art of Narrating and Practicing Grassland Restoration for Tibetan Pastoralism’s Cultural Survival and Revival 89
13. Breeding Apples: Stories of Loss and Hope in Times of Crises 105
14. Storying Multispecies Worlds 125
15. Connecting
16. Of Roots Here and There 145
17. Honorific Ecology 161
18. Narrating With Nature 173
19. Learning to Notice and Love in a More-than-human World 193
20. Remembering
21. Flowing Narratives 211
22. Green Powerhouses in Road Construction 221
23. The Multispecies Paradigm in Traditional (Gaelic) Folklore 233
24. Representations of Nature in the South Indian Oral Narrative of Maṇṭēsvāmi 247
25. Speculating
26. From Ancestrality to Possible Futures 263
27. Playing the Plant, and Other Stories 279
28. Sand-writings of Woodiana Mussels 291
29. Concluding
30. Tracing, Expressing, and Asserting Multivocality in the Multispecies World 317
31. Appendix
32. About the Contributors 331