Shimmering: Animating multispecies relations with Wurundjeri Country
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Title
Feminist Research for 21st-Century Childhoods: Common Worlds Methods
Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
School
School of Education / Edith Cowan Institute for Education Research
RAS ID
29584
Abstract
Scholars who align themselves with the emerging field of environmental humanities are experimenting with different ways of knowing the world. Part of this work involves writing practices that make room for new relations to emerge. These practices require an experimental orientation toward the world, including curiosity about knowledge construction. In this chapter, we are curious about the effects of binary logic and linguistic imperialism and how they are invisible tools of colonization that continuously separate humans from nature. We utilize the grammar of animacy to help us tell lively and animate stories about multispecies relations with Wurundjeri Country...
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Blaise, M., & Hamm, C. (2019). Shimmering: Animating multispecies relations with Wurundjeri Country. In B. D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods (pp. 8-100). London, England: Bloomsbury Academic. Available here