Description:
This timely volume demonstrates the power and the potential of social theory, including theories of practice, histories and biographies of disease, and geographical accounts of cohabitation and contagion, to explore how biological, microbial and social processes constitute each other.
Review Quotes:
Societies are lively, dynamic and made and re-made through social practices that involve microbial lives. Insightful and innovative, and providing glimpses of a better future, the interdisciplinary authors take social practices and microbial relations as fundamental to understanding planetary wellbeing, health and welfare.
Steve Hinchliffe, Chair in Environmental Geography, School of Geography, University of Oxford
Social Practices and Microscopic Matter lays the foundation for critical scholarship on human-microbial relations. An important text for all interested in micro-ecological stewardship and creating 'probiotic' communities in a time of global pandemics and antimicrobial resistance.
Rachael Wakefield-Rann, Research Principal, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology Sydney