Unruly Edges: Mushrooms as Companion Species
for Donna Haraway
Anna Tsing
Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA
Human nature is an interspecies relationship. In this essay, Haraway’s concept of companion
species takes us beyond familiar companions to the rich ecological diversity without which humans cannot
survive. Following fungi, we forage in the last ten thousand years of human disturbance history with feminist
multispecies company. Cereals domesticate humans. Plantations give us the subspecies we call race. The
home cordons off inter- and intra-species love. But mushroom collecting brings us somewhere else—to the
unruly edges and seams of imperial space, where we cannot ignore the interspecies interdependencies that
give us life on earth. There are big stories to tell here, and they should not be left to the human triumphalists
who control the field. This essay opens a door to multispecies landscapes as protagonists for histories of the
world.
http://environmentalhumanities.org/arch/vol1/EH1.9.pdf
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