Listening to the Literal: Orientations Towards How Nature Communicates

Blenkinsop, Sean; Piersol, Laura

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“…On the other hand, listening is receptively to let the world sound, to be open to it sonorous expressions. There is, as Blenkinsop and Piersol (2013) claim, limited literature with regard to listening to the natural world within education and the natural world as "an active, subjective, agential speaker of its own accord" (p. 44). What is the Aufforderingscharakter of the sonic world, that is, how does the world invite our ears to search its aural expressions?…”

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Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory

Østergaard

2019

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In the cave allegory, Plato illustrates his theory of ideas by showing that the world man senses and tries to understand, actually only is a dim representation of the real world. We know the allegory for its light and shadow; however, there is also sound and echo in the cave. In this article, I discuss whether the narrative of the prisoners in the cave is in tune with an audial experience and whether an allegory led by sound corresponds to the one led by sight. I start with a phenomenological analysis of the cave as a place of sound. After that, I elaborate on the training of attentive listening skills and its ramifications for pedagogical practice. I conclude that there are profound differences between seeing and listening and that sound reveals different aspects of “the real” compared to sight. The significance of Plato’s cave allegory should be evaluated in relation to modern, scientific thought characterised by a visual-spatial language. With support of this allegory, the light-shadow polarity has become the Urbild of represented reality. At the same time, a visually oriented culture of ideas repeatedly confirms Plato’s cave allegory as its central metaphor. Finally, an elaboration on the sounds in the cave proves to be fruitful in an educational sense: The comparison of sound and sight sharpens the differences and complementarities of audial and visual experiences.

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Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory

Østergaard

2019

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“…Such a relationship is claimed to be crucial for plant conservation (Balding and Williams 2016), preventing plant blindness (Wandersee and Schussler 1999) the feeling of oneness with the more-thanhuman-world (Mitten 2017) and environmental learning processes (Beery and Jørgensen 2018). The split between the knowing subject and object can evidentially be reconsidered through experiential sharing and subjectification of the living environment and the more-than-human world and allowing them to tell us something about their life-worlds (Blenkinsop and Piersol 2013). In addition, the participants in this study also show that such a relationship influences the identity formation.…”

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“…Intersubjectivity, i.e. being able to relate to the world as or as if the latter has its own subjectivity, and to recognize the living environment as a 'partner in dialogue' (Blenkinsop and Piersol 2013), is a prerequisite to orienteerers. That is to be aware of what the more-than-human world is telling about different ways of being-in-the-world.…”

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Lived experiences of being-in-the-forest as experiential sharing with the more-than-human world

Häggström

2019

Environmental Education Research

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This article considers human embodied relationships with the morethan-human world, in the Swedish forest context, and through a phenomenological approach. The research focuses on lived experiences of being-in-the-forest, starting in the author's experiences, using walk-andtalk conversations as inquiry process with study participants. Analysis reveals that (a) childhood experiences seem to play a crucial role in adult experiences of forests; (b) place-identity and sense of belonging are significant elements in how the participants define themselves; (c) being-in-the-forest is connected to an active, exploring and moving body and that the connection with the more-than-human world of the case study forest is deeply anchored as part of the human body. This relationship appears to be shaped through a process of constructing and reconstructing memories, practice and selfhood, and can, it seems, last a lifetime. In the long term, such relationships could have a positive impact on human connections to the more-than-human world.

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“…Raven: "Little words curl into your mind. You have to know that you're not thinking' (Blenkinsop and Piersol 2013, p. 54) Raven is the pseudonym of a girl in a study by Blenkinsop and Piersol (2013). That she has the name Raven grows the recurrence of this bird in our meeting.…”

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Growing Communities in a Garden Undone: Worldly Justice, Withinness and Women

Blom

Crinall

2020

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Where communities are ecological and humans are nature, ways of reimagining and regenerating communities as human and more, offer a timely response to the call of the Anthropocene for worldly justice. We, the authors, as women and mothers, look into time, place and space, harvesting our ‘becoming (undone)’ for the reader, seeded in the botanical world. Creeping and whispering, still and subtle, plant species are ever present in our survival yet often go unnamed and unnoticed, and to date are under-represented in multi-species becoming research. Via Foucault’s shining light upon power, we muse with Barad, Haraway and Grosz—how does growing (with) plant-life, amongst what is ‘said’ and ‘unsaid’, matter (to) the world as it turns? We have been returned to the same sediment after a decade: Our bowed-together life revived in the childhood–motherhood–nature community entanglements of the Anthropocene. Now, this paper, waters plant–human relationalities living beyond the traditional parochial human-to-human role. We accept our humanness in its onerousness and ownership but look to the leaf litter to reacquaint with our multispecies lives in a garden that has, at times, been sacrificed and lost. Our contribution is chlorophyllic. New ideas enfold and energise what constitutes a community. As women woven with botanica and academia, where mothering is a collaboration rather than a raising, we invite the reader to journey with us into the worldly, life-giving relations that garden a community undone.

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Listening to the Literal: Orientations Towards How Nature Communicates

Cited by 31 publications

References 11 publications

Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory

Echoes and Shadows: A Phenomenological Reconsideration of Plato's Cave Allegory

Lived experiences of being-in-the-forest as experiential sharing with the more-than-human world

Growing Communities in a Garden Undone: Worldly Justice, Withinness and Women

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