Eating Insects with Alien Friends: Entanglement Ethics and Anthropocentric Exclusions in Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014)
Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach (“Eating”) highlight the exclusion of insects from many animal ethics frameworks despite the creatures’ importance to ecosystems. Provocatively, they argue that entomophagy could draw attention to insect life and even produce new forms of interspecies communities. Bec...
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E-rea
2025
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| Truy cập trực tuyến: | Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM |
| Tóm tắt: | Stephen Loo and Undine Sellbach (“Eating”) highlight the exclusion of insects from many animal ethics frameworks despite the creatures’ importance to ecosystems. Provocatively, they argue that entomophagy could draw attention to insect life and even produce new forms of interspecies communities. Becky Chambers’ The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet (2014) provides a speculative opportunity to explore these claims, since humans and aliens dine together on insects as they travel across the galaxy on the Wayfarer spaceship. Using the relational philosophy of Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing, this article argues that the Wayfarer’s multispecies community does challenge anthropocentrism and embrace difference. However, this article also draws on the work of Eva Haifa Giraud to illuminate the normative exclusion of insects from these communities. Insects are essential to the diet of the Wayfarer crew, yet the novel perpetuates their marginalisation and instrumentalization. Thus, this article nuances the largely positive scholarship on Chambers’ work and reflects on the ways in which speculative fiction may reimagine human-nonhuman relations and yet also (re)produce anthropocentric norms. |
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