Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Proximity as Method: Concepts for Coexistence in the Global Past and Present -- Proximity as Method -- Proximities: Beyond Dichotomies -- Decolonial Methodologies and Environmental Criticism -- Principles and Processes of Proximity -- Structure of the volume -- Notes -- References -- Part I: Proximity as Proclivity: New Directions in Emergent Theory -- Chapter 1: Proximity as Method: Prolegomena to a New Perspective on Coexistences -- Description -- Interpretation -- Ethics -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Proximity: Towards a Definition - And 15 axioms -- Note -- References -- Chapter 3: Finding Ripe Oranges: Research for and by Whom? Proximity as Method in Rural Lao Healthcare -- Introduction -- Case Study 1: Studying Traditional Medicine -- Case Study 2: Connecting Communities during COVID-19 -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Epistemic-Moral Hybrids as a Heuristic for Normative Epistemology in Practice: Cases from Biology and Ethics in Work with Proximities -- Proximities and Epistemic-Moral Hybrids: Introductory Remarks -- Proximities in Biology and Ethics: A Brief Sketch -- Hereditary Proximity -- Ecological Proximity -- Proximity in Ethics -- Epistemic-Moral Hybrids: The Case of Biodiversity -- Concluding Remarks: Proximity, Science and Ethics -- References -- Part II: Proximity as Problematic: Case Studies from Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 5: Truths and the Devil: Translating Differences into Similarities in the Sixteenth Century -- Uncovering Unexpected Parallels -- Finding Truth in Assumed Meaning: Translation as Teamwork -- Constructing Truth in Proximity with the Devil: Translation as Negotiation of Similarities -- Conclusion -- References.