Performance ecologies, biotic rights and retro-modernisation

Kershaw, Baz

doi:10.1080/13569783.2012.670426

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“…In ritualising, humans discover, then embody and cultivate their world views, attitudes and ethics. Attitudes must be cultivated by practice; performance is therefore an integral process in and of ecosystems (Kershaw, 2012). Tom's summary of biodynamics conveyed as much: [It's] just reconnecting, when you go through the whole process, it's like reconnecting you with the soil, the food you're eating, all the atmospheric conditions, where the moon is, what the planets are doing, and it's just sort of .…”

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Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture

Pigott

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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In this article, I participate in efforts to re-imagine soils as lively, complex, more-than-human ecologies, by turning to the largely sidestepped subject of spirituality in agriculture. Spiritual knowledge practices rarely sit comfortably alongside technoscientific, productivist accounts of soil health, and yet they can re-configure how soils are conceptualised and managed, with implications for relationships of care. Drawing on an extended period of learning with a Community Supported Agriculture project in south Wales, the article explores how care is cultivated through a non-conventional method of farming known as biodynamics, which incorporates astrological and spiritual principles. I suggest that biodynamic narratives and rituals encourage attentiveness to more-than-human agency and energy, to depth (not only underground but also above-ground influences of the air and celestial bodies), and to reciprocity between soil biota and humans. Biodynamic practices also make space for mystery, thereby resisting drives to measure and map, and offering possibilities for disrupting anthropocentric approaches to soil care. However, the example presented here also highlights how, despite biodynamic’s growing popularity, its spiritual elements have a tendency to be kept quiet, their presence sidelined by more familiar, secular, narratives. Nonetheless, I contend that if effective soil care demands more diverse knowledge practices than those that are currently obliterating critical soil communities at an alarming rate, then there can be much to learn from a touch of magic.

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Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture

Pigott

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…It is becoming well recognized that qualitative research needs to reflect the importance of environmental and ecological conditions entwined in human narratives (Bennett, 2010;Revelles-Benavente & Cielemecka, 2016;Kershaw, 2012). The notion of an intra-active pedagogy is described by Roder (2011) where learning is seen to take place in an ongoing material-discursive flow of agency (p. 61).…”

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Performative Writing as a Method of Inquiry With the Material World: The Art of the Imperative

Fitzpatrick

Longley

2020

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Understanding writing as a performative material practice, this paper highlights the “imperative” as a strategy to enhance writing practices in our classrooms and academic workshops. Drawing on posthuman theories and intra-active relationships, it describes how performative arts-based writing can provide a way to engage with the human and nonhuman, the embodied, sensory elements of our writerly worlds. Employing a critical collaborative autoethnographic methodology, the two authors provide a narrative account of a year as two research Fellows in a university exploring writing as a method of inquiry through designing and implementing a series of performative arts-based writing activities.

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“…which had us considering a potential paradigm shift in qualitative research from “human rights” to “biotic rights” a term coined by performance academic baz kershaw discussing the rights of all living species among which humans are one animal among many biotic forms and how that would effect the field of qualitative researchin the grand scheme of earthly things human beings are still a tiny percentage of total living creatures even if we exclude bacteria and other microscopic organisms what’s more we humans are dependent on them so taking that as a scientifically factual basis of biotic rights has profound implications for any conception of human rights in respect of environmentalism and for the purposes of my argument i invite readers to temporarily adopt this perspective on non-human biotic rights in an environment of global warming produced by homo sapiens from that standpointhuman rights might look like yet another sick joke of modernism and postmodernism gone wrong or perhaps, pace bateson, like a profoundly paradoxical kind of insanity (Kershaw, 2012, p. 268)…”

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“…human rights might look like yet another sick joke of modernism and postmodernism gone wrong or perhaps, pace bateson, like a profoundly paradoxical kind of insanity (Kershaw, 2012, p. 268)…”

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Streams of Writing From a Fluid City

Longley

Fitzpatrick

Sunde

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What is the relationship between qualitative research and environmental activism? At a time when the effects of environmental damage are becoming increasingly more visible and flooding our daily lives in unpredictable and sometimes devastating ways, how do qualitative methods of research and writing respond to current environmental challenges? This article discusses an arts-science-education collaboration titled fluid city, which disseminates critical research on water ecology to the wider public of Auckland City, New Zealand, through creative and performative means. An experimental approach to narrative washes through the style of this article in an attempt to have the encounter of reading flow with the logic of ecological thinking and liquid perception.

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Performance ecologies, biotic rights and retro-modernisation

Cited by 5 publications

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Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture

Hocus pocus? Spirituality and soil care in biodynamic agriculture

Performative Writing as a Method of Inquiry With the Material World: The Art of the Imperative

Streams of Writing From a Fluid City

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