Communicating Human and Non-Human Otherness

Helena Pires is Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, is a member of the Communication and Society Research Centre, Portugal.Zara Pinto-Coelho is Professor at the Department of Communication Sciences at the University of Minho, is a member of the Communication and Society Research Centre, Portugal..Luísa Magalhães is co-editor of the Palgrave Studies in Otherness and Communication book series, is a researcher at the Centre for Philosophical and Humanistic Studies (CEFH) and Professor in Communication Sciences at the Catholic University of Portugal.

• 1. Introduction.- Part 1: haring childhood geographies, inventing a common home: a study on “Duets”.- 2. Walking towards / with the Other: Contemporary art practices/performances between visible and invisible layers, sites, and borders .- 3. The map of the Others.- 4. Don’t Trans*Phobe, Trans*Form Yourself - (Anti-)Homophobic and (Anti-)Patriarchal Graffiti of the Post-Socialist Transition.-  5. The street and the circles as a space for women's (re)existence in the city of Rio de Janeiro.- 6. Living in High-Density Towers. Ghetto, Precariousness and Becoming-Other.- Part 2: Otherness and the critique of the subject: from psychoanalysis to posthumanism.- 7. Creation and posthumanism .-  8. Representing ecosystems: from prosopopoeia to the poetics of perspective.- 9. A grain of sand in the anthropocentric machine: On the poetry of W. Szymborska.- 10. The proposed title: (Re)activating More-than-human Knowledge in Eduardo Navarro’s Sensory Performative Practices.- 11. The imaginary of otherness in the Technocene era.