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Book SynopsisSocio-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.
Trade Review"...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
Table of ContentsIntroduction: 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
