Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds

by Michelle Bastian (Editor), Owain Jones (Editor), Niamh Moore (Editor), Emma Roe (Editor)

Overview

Socio-environmental crises are currently transforming the conditions for life on this planet, from climate change, to resource depletion, biodiversity loss and long-term pollutants. The vast scale of these changes, affecting land, sea and air have prompted calls for the ‘ecologicalisation’ of knowledge.

This book adopts a much needed ‘more-than-human’ framework to grasp these complexities and challenges. It contains multidisciplinary insights and diverse methodological approaches to question how to revise, reshape and invent methods in order to work with non-humans in participatory ways. The book offers a framework for thinking critically about the promises and potentialities of participation from within a more-than-human paradigm, and opens up trajectories for its future development. It will be of interest to those working in the environmental humanities, animal studies, science and technology studies, ecology, and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317340874
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/01/2016
Series:	Routledge Studies in Human Geography
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	228
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

Michelle Bastian is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Owain Jones is Professor of Environmental Humanities, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, University of Bath Spa, UK.

Niamh Moore is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Emma Roe is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK.

Table of Contents

Introduction: More-than-human participatory research: contexts, challenges, possibilities

Michelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma Roe

Part 1: Experiments in more-than-human participatory research

1. Towards a more-than-human participatory research

Michelle Bastian

2. Marginalised voices: zoömusicology through a participatory lens

Hollis Taylor

3. ‘Animal-computer interaction: a manifesto’ (2011) and sections from ‘Towards an animal-centred ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction’ (2016)

Clara Mancini

4. Transformations of time on ecological pilgrimage

Peter Reason

Part 2: Building (tentative) affinities

5. How we nose

Timothy Hodgetts and Hester

6. An apprenticeship in plant thinking

Hannah Pitt

7. Imagination and empathy – Eden3: Plein Air

Reiko Goto Collins and Timothy Martin Collins

8. Empowerment as skill: the role of affect in building new subjectivities

Anna Krzywoszynska

9. Shadows, undercurrents and the Aliveness Machines

Jon Pigott and Antony Lyons

Part 3: Cautions

10. Laboratory beagles and affective co-productions of knowledge

Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin

11. Rethinking ethnobotany? a methodological reflection on human-plant research

Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head

12. Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning

Deirdre Heddon

Editorial Reviews

"...Valuable insights for researchers in the social sciences, biological sciences, or humanities which may benefit from the experimental and decentering work collected in this book even if the reader engages with the more-than-human world only at a tangential level in their own research... With its wide range of perspectives and its conversely tight dialogical structure drawing largely from participants in shared workshops and panels, this edited collection offers a range of intersecting provocations about the potential for MtH-PR. It operates as an important intervention that will be useful, or at least de-centering, for social scientists and humanities scholars, particularly those working in environmental or STS disciplines." Matt Comi, Agriculture and Human Values (2019) 36:907–908

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