The Biocultural is a Pluripotent Concept for Theory: A Response to Six Provocations

This essay expounds on five themes raised by the symposium participants' engagement with the notion that humans are biocultural creatures. These themes concern the excitement and richness of non-binary concept development, the reconsideration of what constitutes knowledge, the possibilities and challenges of collaborative work, the methodological questions posed by cross-or trans-disciplinary research, and the ways that the multiscalar spatial and temporal logics accompanying the concept of the bio-cultural transform the domains, objects, and agents of politics.