Be(e)coming pollinators: Beekeeping and perceptions of environmentalism in Massachusetts.

ABSTRACT: In an era of mass extinction and biodiversity crisis, it is increasingly crucial to cultivate more just and inclusive multispecies futures. As mitigation and adaption efforts are formed in response to these crises, just transitions forward require intentional consideration of the hybrid entanglement of humans, human societies, and wider landscapes. We thus apply a critical hybridity framework to examine the entanglement of the pollinator crisis with the cultural and agricultural practice of hobbyist beekeeping. We draw on ethnographic engagements with Massachusetts beekeepers and find apiculture to be widely understood as a form of environmentalism-including as both a mitigation to and adaptation for the pollinator crisis. Illustrating how power-laden socioecological negotiations shape and

SUBMITTER: DiDonato S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8920284 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature