Ethnography after Humanism

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Can ecological relationships be grown indoors? A re-storying of plant-child relations

“…This study resists this aspect of ethnography and instead takes the tools of observing and listening and applies it to multiple species, then renarrates these using methods of van Dooren and Rose's (2016) lively storying. Hamilton and Taylor (2017) warn against fetishizing new research practices and multispecies ethnography risks falling into a trap of reinstating human/plant binaries. The term ethnography means "writing about groups of people" (Creswell, 2008, p. 472 , 2016).…”

“…However, dancing through these relationships the very human act of noticing how plants have influence in the ways that movement, power, and knowledge assembles may bring different steps to the choreography. Taylor and Hamilton (2017) write that multispecies-ethnography still recognizes that fieldwork relies centrally on the human-researcher but believe that an openness in writing and a flexibility within the methods provides new possibility on what ethnography can encompass.…”

Care-full research ethics in multispecies relations on dairy farms

“…4 In decentering the human, critical multispecies geographies have also faced the task of developing more contextual and situated ethical responsibilities, pushing forward forms of relational ethics that stem from the embodied encounters between entangled, more-than-human beings. 5 More-than-human geographers have also been interested in exploring how to implement the notion of relational ethics into research ethics, especially in relation to the laboratory. 6 These studies have specifically discussed how more situated and embodied ethics can meaningfully complement institutional and legal ethical guidelines.…”

“…Generally, the more invasive the research practices are, the more clearly defined the research ethical guidelines are. 8 Yet, embarking on fieldwork, I understood that there existed a vast range of tacit, largely unwritten practices that supported the ethical execution of more-than-human research. This paper is an exploration into putting these practices into words, and asking whether they can be perceived as practices of research ethics.…”

Abundance in the Anthropocene

“…In recent years there have been concerted attempts to expand the purview of the social sciences beyond the human, in what has been labelled an ‘animal turn’ (Franklin, 2007, p. 7). There is now a well-established body of work concerned with Human–Animal studies (Hamilton & Taylor, 2017; Wilkie, 2015), with a particular emphasis on companion species’ co-shaping relations with humans (Charles, 2017; Cudworth, 2015). This research has engaged extensively with a body of cultural theory that foregrounds the entangled, co-constitutive relationships between humans and other species, which includes (but is not limited to) posthumanism (e.g.…”