This ambitious book considers social scientific topics such as identity, community, sexual difference, self, and ecology from a microbial perspective. Harnessing research and evidence from earth systems science and microbiology, and particularly focusing on symbiosis and symbiogenesis, the book argues for the development of a microontology of life.
Table of Content
Introduction After War Plenty of Room at the Bottom: Thinking (With) Bacteria Evolutionary Theory and its Discontents Microontologies of Self Microontologies of Sex Microontologies of Ecology Eating Well, Surviving Humanism Bibliography
About the author
MYRA J. HIRD is Professor and Queen’s National Scholar at Queen’s University, Canada. Her research and teaching interests span the areas of science studies, health, the ontology and epistemology of sexual difference, sexuality, ethics and social justice, violence, disability studies, feminist theory and queer theory. She is the author of
Sociology of Science: A Critical Canadian Introduction,
Sex, Gender and Science and
Engendering Violence: From Childhood to Adulthood, as well as three co-edited collections, including
Queering the (Non-)Human,
Questioning Sociology: Canadian Perspectives and
Sociology for the Asking.
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