Piergiorgio Di Giminiani, "Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier" (U Arizona Press, 2025)

In the Anthropocene, a question has become increasingly urgent: What

does it mean to be human? Set against the backdrop of southern Chile’s

conservation frontier, Alterhumanism: Becoming Human on a Conservation Frontier (University of Arizona Press, 2025)

invites us to recognize the centrality of the human condition in the

face of an increasingly uncertain world and imagine future forms of

coexistence.

Reflecting on more than a decade of ethnographic

fieldwork with smallholding settlers, Indigenous Mapuche farmers,

environmental activists, entrepreneurs, and conservation scientists,

Piergiorgio Di Giminiani brings to light how these diverse groups

navigate the enduring impacts of settler-caused environmental depletion

and their aspirations for new ethics of care. Di Giminiani challenges