Stories of shimmer and pollution: understanding child-environment aesthetic encounters in urban wilds

Renlund, Jenny; Kumpulainen, Kristiina; Wong, Chin Chin; Byman, Jenny

doi:10.1080/14733285.2022.2121914

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“…Therefore, although we perceive lifeworlds "through ourselves," affective enterings are only possible through relationality, which pushes us to look and act beyond ourselves in relation to ecosystems. In our study, we conceptualised lingering as an embodied approach to attuning-with speculative spaces, frictions, and awkwardness in children's narratives about more-than-human worlds (Byman et al, 2023;Renlund et al, 2023), but also as a sensuous experience that captivates children and prompts their attunement with materialities in local surroundings (Renlund et al, 2022).…”

Section: Lingering As Attuning-with Multispecies Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Lingering with Multispecies Kin: Re-Turning to Encounters between Children, Invertebrates and Amphibians

Byman,

Kumpulainen,

Renlund

2024

Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Based on an ethnographic study in a Finnish primary school, we explored lingering as both a pedagogical approach and a methodological concept for multispecies education research and practice. Through this conceptual thinking, we “re-turned” to the multiplicities that unfolded from noticing rhythms, enterings and different lifeworlds to show how children’s lingering encounters developed into speculative inquiries about how invertebrates and amphibians generate polyphonous affects and temporalities. In our study, children’s “attuning-with” clay, waste materials, photographs, and stop-motion animation opened up the unfamiliar worlds and temporalities of invertebrates and amphibians, involving active silences, slow rhythms, and awkward becomings. Overall, the study highlights that children’s attuning-with the uncertainties of today’s socioecological world create new avenues for thinking about multispecies relationalities.

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Section: Lingering As Attuning-with Multispecies Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%