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CfP - Visitations: more-than-human field/work encounters
Session organisers: Natalie Marr (Univ. of Glasgow), Maia Larsen (Univ. of Glasgow), Mirjami Lantto (Univ. of Glasgow)
Conducting field/work with more-than-human others is a challenging endeavour. Whether bearing witness to ecological loss and degradation (Rose 2017; van Dooren 2014) or negotiating difference within more-than-human participatory research (Bastian, Jones, Moore, & Roe 2017), meeting these challenges with a sense of hope demands radical shifts in perspective and positionality, indeed the very arts of living (Tsing, Swanson, Gan & Bubandt 2017).
Recent cross-disciplinary research foregrounding an ethics of exposure (Neimanis & Hamilton 2018), ‘situated response’ (Haraway 1988) and elemental affinities (Engelmann & McCormack 2018) among others, is re-figuring the field as less a coherent ‘site’ to be visited and encountered, but rather a diffuse and unruly tangle of relations that nonetheless comes calling in moments of acute co-presence. Daisy Hildyard’s (2017) figuring of the sudden flooding of her home as the visitation of her ‘second body’ offers a further framing for reflecting upon the messy transcorporeality (Alaimo 2010) of field-working between the situated and the planetary.
The unsettling work of fielding unsettled things demands new arts of response and representation of place and planet (Lorimer 2018). This session wishes to explore the researching body as field of purposeful vulnerability and creative co-composition, ‘tak[ing] up the unasked for obligation of having met’ (Haraway 2016: 130). What are the material consequences of working-with or holding-with more-than-human others? How does the field itself re-frame the terms of engagement?
We invite contributions on, but not limited to, the following lines of enquiry:The session will host individual presentations but is designed to be conversational, comprising group discussion. With this in mind, we are particularly keen to invite the presentation of work that is reflective, and perhaps unresolved.
We welcome presentations in unusual formats; please give an indication of this in your abstract if so. Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words to [log in to unmask] by Tuesday 5th February. We will confirm acceptance by Friday 8th February.
References:
Alaimo, S. (2010). Bodily Natures: Science, Environment, and the Material Self. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Bastian, Jones, Moore & Roe. (2017). Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds. London: Routledge.
Engelmann, S., & McCormack, D. (2018). Elemental Aesthetics: On Artistic Experiments with Solar Energy. Annals of the American Association of Geographers 108(1), 241–259.
Haraway, D. (1988). Situated knowledges: The science question in feminism and the privilege of partial perspective. Feminist Studies 14, 575–599.
Haraway, D. (2016). Staying with the Trouble. Making Kin in the Chthulucene. London: Duke University Press.
Hildyard, D. (2017). The Second Body. London: Fitzcarraldo Editions.
Lorimer, H. (2018). Dear departed: Writing the lifeworlds of place. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers.
Neimanis, A. & Hamilton, J. M. (2018). weathering. Feminist Review 118, 80-84.
Rose, D. B. (2017). ‘Shimmer: When All You Love Is Being Trashed’ in Tsing, A., Swanson, H., Gan, E. & Bubandt, N. (eds.). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, pp. G51-G63.
Tsing, A., Swanson, H., Gan, E. & Bubandt, N. (eds.). (2017). Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
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