Human–Bug Encounters in Multispecies Networks

Laura Hollsten, Ph.D. (2005), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is a researcher specialised in environmental history at that university. Her research interests include human-animal studies, early modern environmental history, the history of knowledge and science, and global history.Otto Latva, Ph.D. (2019), University of Turku, Finland, is a historian focusing on human-animal and human-plant studies as well as environmental history. Latva is the author of the monograph The Giant Squid in Transatlantic Culture: The Monsterization of Molluscs (2023).Sanna Lillbroända-Annala, Ph.D. (2010), Åbo Akademi University, Finland, is an ethnologist and senior lecturer at that university. She has conducted research in urban environments from the perspective of gentrification and cultural heritage, lately with special interest towards non-humans in urban settings.Suvi Rytty, Ph.D. (2021), University of Turku, Finland, is a postdoctoral researcher specializing in the history of medicine and health. Her research interests include the history of the natural way of life, alternative medicine, vegetarianism and anti-vaccinationism.Tuomas Räsänen, Ph.D. (2015), University of Turku, Finland, is a Professor of environmental history at the University of Eastern Finland. He has studied the history of human-wildlife relationships and marine environmental history. He has been leading the research project Humans and Ticks in the Anthropocene.

• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionLaura Hollsten, Suvi Rytty, Otto Latva, Sanna Lillbroända-Annala and Tuomas RäsänenPart 1: Ethics1 Becoming Aware of Insects: Dangers and Endangerments in the AnthropoceneMichaela Fenske2 Deconstructing Wasp Aggression: Proposing a Critically Anthropomorphic Narrative of Shared VulnerabilityMinna SantaojaPart 2: Insects and Human Gaze3 Fly Eyes and Insect Vision at the Turn of the 20th Century: from Scientific Curiosity to Compound MenaceConcepción Cortés Zulueta4 Encounters with the Insect World: Care and Human – Insect Relationships in Wildlife DocumentariesHeidi MikkolaPart 3: Science and Knowledge5 Wild Spiders in Fragile Knowledge Networks: Spiders in Medicine, Natural History, and Silk Production in Eighteenth-Century EuropeLaura Hollsten6 Valuing Birds and Insects in America, c. 1815–1920: a Multispecies PerspectiveSophie FitzMaurice7 From Harmless Nuisance to Frightening Enemy: the Perceptions of Ticks in Finland before the Beginning of the Tick Hysteria in the 1990sOtto Latva8 Anopheline Mobilities and More-Than-Mosquito Biopolitics in Making BiotechnologyMarianne MäkelinPART 4: Bodies at Risk9 Clandestine Agents in Meadows: Ticks, Cattle and Redwater Fever in Finland, 1860s–1930sTaina Syrjämaa10 Social Construction of Tick-Borne Diseases from the 1950s to the Twenty-First Century: a View From the History of MedicineSuvi Rytty11 Tick Smart: Practices and Materializations in Human – Tick EntanglementsSanna Lillbroända-AnnalaPART 5: Multispecies Networks12 Fleas, Knowledge-Making, and the Epidemiology of Plague in British India: Perspectives from the Bombay Epidemic, 1905–1906Emily Webster13 Epidemic Encounters: Mingling with Mosquitoes in Réunion and MauritiusKarine Aasgaard Jansen14 Humans, Ticks, and the Conflict over the CervidsHeta Lähdesmäki and Tuomas RäsänenIndex