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Living with and Learning from Bed Bugs: New York and New Forms of Interspecies Sociability

Year: 2013

Type: article

Abstract: This essay uses the subjective experience of a bed bug infestation as the starting point for thinking through the nature of parasitic relationships. Calling on recent literatures in mulit- and inter-species ethnography, the author asks the following question: if, as Anna Tsing has argued, a new kind of science is being born, one whose key characteristic is "multispecies love," can we, as individuals, and as social beings, learn to love bed bugs?

Source: Knowledge@UChicago (University of Chicago)

DOI: 10.6082/1e7q4-7qh46

Author: Berthe, Jamie

Institution: New York University

Language: English

Topic: Geographies of human-animal interactions

Subfield: Geography, Planning and Development

Field: Social Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W2210386941

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