What Comes after Entanglement?

Giraud, Eva

doi:10.1215/9781478007159

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“…9 The concept of entanglement has been the focus of critique. For example, Giraud (2019) argues that simply grounding an ethics and politics in the recognition of relationality is not enough to explain how the entangled relations act together through what she describes as an ethics of exclusion. For her, this means paying attention to “entities, practices and ways of being that are foreclosed when other entangled realties are materialized” (p. 2).…”

Section: Affective Entanglementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Just Wanna Be a Woman”: Some Not So Simple Ways: Families, Femininity and/as Affective Entanglement

Walkerdine

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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Catherine is age 21 years. She is part of a research project that has followed her life from age 4 until 21 years. She is driving along in her car and we hear a song, with the lines “I just wanna be a woman” sung plaintively over and over again. This article considers what the song might mean in the context of what we learn from a very close reading of observation and interview data with her, her parents, and teachers at various stages of her life. The article describes the process of conducting a slow reading and argues that it presents to us an approach to what I call “affective entanglement” as an antidote to classificatory prescriptions of causality. We begin to understand how the complexity of the entanglement of family lives, lived at particular historical periods and in specific geographical locations, gives us a detailed insight into not only the entanglements that shape Catherine’s life, but also allow us to understand something about the affective transmission of class, gender, and sexuality in all its complexity.

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Section: Affective Entanglementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“I Just Wanna Be a Woman”: Some Not So Simple Ways: Families, Femininity and/as Affective Entanglement

Walkerdine

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…Transforming the imagination from deadly battlefield to flourishing future calls for a collective reckoning amidst the ruin and rubble generated by imperial-capitalist projects of scale, desire, and extraction. In this reckoning, no position is ever entirely innocent or pure (Shotwell, 2016) and no entanglement ever entirely reciprocal or just (Giraud, 2019). To imagine the climate otherwise is to stay with the trouble of interand intraspecies asymmetries but also to work creatively and collaboratively towards a less violent sharing of suffering across species lines (Haraway, 2008).…”

Section: Towards a Decolonial Imaginationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation

Chao

Enari

2021

eTropic

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This article calls for transdisciplinary, experimental, and decolonial imaginations of climate change and Pacific futures in an age of great planetary undoing. Drawing from our personal and academic knowledge of the Pacific from West Papua to Samoa, we highlight the need for radical forms of imagination that are grounded in an ethos of inclusivity, participation, and humility. Such imaginations must account for the perspectives, interests, and storied existences of both human and beyond-human communities of life across their multiple and situated contexts, along with their co-constitutive relations. We invite respectful cross-pollination across Indigenous epistemologies, secular scientific paradigms, and transdisciplinary methodologies in putting such an imagination into practice. In doing so, we seek to destabilise the prevailing hegemony of secular science over other ways of knowing and being in the world. We draw attention to the consequential agency of beyond-human lifeforms in shaping local and global worlds and to the power of experimental, emplaced storytelling in conveying the lively and lethal becoming-withs that animate an unevenly shared and increasingly vulnerable planet. The wisdom of our kindred plants, animals, elements, mountains, forests, oceans, rivers, skies, and ancestors are part of this story. Finally, we reflect on the structural challenges in decolonising climate change and associated forms of knowledge production in light of past and ongoing thefts of sovereignty over lands, bodies, and ecosystems across the tropics.

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“…While acknowledging such entanglements is important to understand multispecies encounters, it can also redirect our ability to respond to other animals with a discussion on complexity and thereby reproduce the status quo (cf. Giraud, 2019). However, the annotated illustrations in this text aim to demonstrate that rather than ambiguous statements or theoretical reflections on complexity, such positive ingredients can also be traced and expressed in much more detail through narratives.…”

Section: A Relational Ethics Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Still, a call for practising care with other animals should not tone down the critique on animal oppression by accepting all kinds of violence as simply part of our complicated lives together (cf. Giraud, 2019). We cannot hide our ethics behind a veneer of care because we can continuously question how such ethics help us to care differently in all sorts of speciesist scenarios.…”

Section: A Relational Ethics Of Carementioning

confidence: 99%

What is the opposite of speciesism? On relational care ethics and illustrating multi-species-isms

Westerlaken

2020

IJSSP

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PurposeThis paper articulates a counter-concept to the notion of speciesism with the aim to encourage thinking beyond critique, towards imagining what non-speciesist worlds can actually look like.Design/methodology/approachBy using the concept of “multi-species-isms” (or “multispecies”, as a simpler adjective), and linking it to feminist and relational ethics of “care”, the paper seeks to unite perspectives from both Critical Animal Studies as well as feminist, posthumanist theories. Already existing traces of multi-species-isms that exemplify different forms of multispecies care are visualised through annotated illustrations that accompany the text. These traces offer a cue for negotiating multispecies worlds without attempting to define their content in all too definite forms.FindingsRather than focusing on critiquing oppressive structures, the paper contributes narratives of multispecies worlds that inspire further imagination towards the positive ingredients of such worlds and show more concretely how multispecies care is practised in everyday life.Social implicationsThese insights frame a starting point for a repertoire that shows the numerous ways in which multispecies relationships between humans and other animals are already given form.Originality/valueBy articulating the actual ingredients of multi-species-isms, rather than focusing on what they are not, the paper seeks to advance a move towards adding multispecies possibilities that can be especially helpful for those researchers, designers and activists concerned with imagining alternative futures.

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What Comes after Entanglement?

Cited by 100 publications

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“I Just Wanna Be a Woman”: Some Not So Simple Ways: Families, Femininity and/as Affective Entanglement

“I Just Wanna Be a Woman”: Some Not So Simple Ways: Families, Femininity and/as Affective Entanglement

Decolonising Climate Change: A Call for Beyond-Human Imaginaries and Knowledge Generation

What is the opposite of speciesism? On relational care ethics and illustrating multi-species-isms

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