From Polarisation to Multispecies Relationships

Section 1 : Rethinking Human Security and Resilience as Vulnerable Multispecies Relationships.- Chapter 1: communication and culture : a multispecies endeavour: recognising kinship with multiple species.- Chapter 2: Pandemic in South Africa: reflections on lock down.- Chapter 3: From old to new taxonomies of rights, relationships and responsibilities to protect habitat.- Chapter 4:Interview: Recognising our Hybridity and interconnectedness'.- Chapter 5: Consciousness for Balancing Individualism and Collectivism.- Chapter 6: Prospects for sustainable development linked to a focus on interrelatedness, interdependence and mutuality: Some African perspectives.- Chapter 7: Habitat loss and near extinction of plants and insects in South Africa.- Chapter 8: Stewardship : an anthropocentric misnomer.- Chapter 9 : Social engagement to redress the banality of evil and the frontiers of justice: Limitations of the social contract to protect habitat and why an international law to prevent the crime of ecocide matters.- Chapter 10 : From polarisation to multispecies relationships: re-membering narratives.- Chapter 11:  Vignette: Why thinking matters: constructivism, relationships and the performative universe.- Chapter 12 : Responsibly and Performatively researching multispecies relationality.- Chapter 13: City life in Vietnam: Autoethnographic reflection and application of Nussbaums's ten capabilities.- Section 2: Reframing and Re-claiming the commons through a-Priori and aposteriori approaches.- Chapter 14: Social and environmental justice: the legacy of Structured Democratic Dialogue and the potential of Pathways to Wellbeing.- Chapter 15: Social engagement to protect multispecies habitat: implications for re-generation and food security.- Chapter: 16 Educational curriculum and multispecies relations.- Chapter 17: The potential of eco-facturing: Towards social and

Janet McIntyre-Mills (DLitt et Phil, Sociology) is Honorary Professor at University of South Africa , ranked by the National Research Foundation in South Africa and Visiting Research Fellow at the Yunus Social Business Centre within the University of Adelaide Business School since Dec 2019. She is also Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University and holds affiliations with universities in Indonesia, such as the University of Indonesia and Universitas Padjadjaran where she is affiliated with the Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research. She has been nominated 'Sociologist of the Month' in August 2019 by the Current Sociology Journal in recognition of her paper: 'Recognising our hybridity and Connectedness'. Her research focuses on systemic representation , accountability and re-generation applied to social and environmental justice concerns and includes both edited and sole authored volumes such as :Planetary Passport: Re-presentation, Accountabilityand Re-Generation and Systemic Ethics and non-anthropocentric stewardship Springer, New York.orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-1228 

Yvonne Corcoran-Nantes (PhD Sociology) is an International Gender Consultant and a Principal Research Fellow in the Social Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor at Flinders University. She is also an Associate of the Gender Consortium at Flinders University and Research Fellow, Centre for Research and Participatory Development Research, Universitas Padjadjaran, Indonesia. She engages with some of the major issues facing women globally and specialises in gender specific research in non-western countries in the field of development and international politics, dealing with issues such as gender equality, human rights, gender-based violence, sustainable development, terrorism and conflict. She wrote a seminal work on Central Asian women entitled Lost Voices: Central Asian Women Confronting Transition which was published by Zed Books and is now in its