AbstractIn this session we want to consider and discuss what Gibson and Roelvink (2009, p. 153) call “interspecies production activities”: forms of economic livelihoods based upon the work/collaboration of both humans and non-humans, and the kinds of visions, practices and ethical negotiations that underpin them. We thus want to bring together people working on theories, concepts and methods to explore the links between economic practices and more-than-human worlds, and the ethico-political possibilities that a less-anthropocentric thinking and doing the economy can bring to life. What conceptualisations and methods are diverse economy scholars working with to recognise and acknowledge non-human others in their theoretical and community work? Which concepts are they finding generative of less-anthropocentric ways of thinking about the economy? Are there specific concepts that can help make economic theory less anthropocentric? How are they approaching these questions methodologically? How are they engaging their more-than-human research participants? Finally, how are these more-than-human ways of thinking and doing the economy bringing about postcapitalist possibilities?
