
Parasitism and Multispecies World
Rethinking Relationality in the Anthropocene
Jayjit Sarkar(Author)
Anthem Press
Will be published approx. on 13. October 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
100 pages
978-1-80136-132-3 (ISBN)
Description
The book discusses how the figure of the parasite and concept of parasitism open up new avenues of thinking about human, other-than-human and more-than-human world-making. The parasite helps us in our understanding of not only socio-political relations but also the relational turn in contemporary ecological and biological thought. The figure of the parasite has been employed in relational thinking and deconstructionist thinking, but it has never been used in understanding ecological crises in the Anthropocene. This scholarly work not only locates the figure of the parasite in a multispecies world, it also espouses parasitism as a mode of thinking and parasite-parasite as a mode of living. The book promotes a unique form of multispecies thinking and doing that is necessary for survival.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
454 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-80136-132-3 (9781801361323)
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Person
Jayjit Sarkar teaches in the Department of English at Raiganj University, India. He is the author of Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot.