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Journal Article 
The Tree Snail Manifesto 
Hadfield, MG; Haraway, DJ 
2019 
Yes 
Current Anthropology
ISSN: 0011-3204 
60 
S209-S235 
English 
CCC:000478603500004 
Focused on the lives and deaths of Pacific Island tree snails, the crafting of apparatuses and practices for their study in laboratory and field, and the diverse people engaged in the work, this double-voiced essay by two long-term friends and colleagues joins science, politics, and culture to contribute to multispecies environmental justice and island biopolitical geography. In part 1 Hadfield tracks his own trajectory, beginning with professional life as a "pure scientist," fascinated by patterns of development of marine animals, and then finding that fascination moving to efforts to stop the extinctions of native Hawaiian land snails, conservation efforts across the Pacific, and ultimately teaching and practicing resistance to political suppression of science and military takeover and destruction of islands around the world. In the idioms of science studies and anthropology, part 2 by Donna Haraway plays cat's cradle games with Hadfield's land-and-sea EcologicalEvolutionaryDevelopmental biology and activism. Haraway explores the complexity of practices crucial to life-altering scientific caring in the patchy Anthropocene. Parts 1 and 2 are linked by Satoru Abe's print Parting Trees B, which is a vital hinge for collaborations in the Tree Snail Manifesto. 
Anthropology; symbiosis, ecology, life