With a Bird: A Reader on Avian Kinship reframes our relationship to birds not as one of observation or metaphor, but of mutual belonging — drawing on speculative fiction, critical ornithology, visual art, and ancestral memory to ask what it means to share a world with other species.
About This Book
Neither field guide nor poetry anthology, With a Bird occupies its own cross-disciplinary territory. The book positions birds as kin — entities with histories, desires, and ways of knowing that exceed human frameworks — and assembles a range of contributors to explore that proposition across myth, science, migration, and dream. Decolonial, feminist, and ecological thinking runs through the collection, unsettling the dominant narratives through which birds have been studied, romanticised, and exploited. For readers engaged with multispecies thinking, environmental humanities, or the politics of care, this is a genuinely expansive reader that refuses easy consolation in favour of repair.
Key Features
- 288 pages of cross-disciplinary essays, speculative fiction, personal writing, and visual art
- Edited by Marjolein van der Loo
- Published by Onomatopee, 2024
What You'll Discover
- How decolonial and feminist frameworks challenge the way ornithology and natural history have constructed avian knowledge
- The role of ancestral memory and myth in sustaining human-bird relationships that scientific discourse often overlooks
- Speculative and creative approaches to imagining multispecies futures grounded in care and reciprocity
- How migration, dream, and the fragile entanglement of human and bird lives resist reduction to metaphor
About the Author
Marjolein van der Loo is the editor of this collection. [Details available upon request]
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 288
- Dimensions: 11 x 17 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493382022
- Publisher: Onomatopee
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Readers working in environmental humanities, multispecies studies, decolonial theory, and ecological art practice — as well as anyone rethinking the ethics of how we live alongside non-human life.