5C: More-Than-Human Research Praxis: Doing More With More-Than-Humans (Panel Discussion)
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Sir Llew Edwards 14-116
Thursday, July 13, 2017 |
1:40 PM - 3:10 PM |
Sir Llew Edwards 14-116 |
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Sponsored by Cultural Geography Study Group
Speaker
Ms Sarah Robertson
PhD Candidate
RMIT University
More-Than-Human Research Praxis: Doing More With More-Than-Humans Panel Discussion
3:40 PM - 5:10 PMAbstract Text
Recent geographical scholarship has called for and increasingly recognised the agency of the more-than-human beings that make the world. Scholarship in this space is moving toward more explicitly engaging with and understanding human-more-than-human entanglements. More-than-human theories call on researchers to speak with more-than-humans rather than for them; to elevate their agency and see how human-more-than-human entanglements are constituted and enacted. Yet the challenge remains to move beyond theory to “do more” with more-than-humans in research praxis (Dowling et al., 2016). In this panel discussion, invited scholars engaged in such research will reflect on the ways research is and might “decentre human control of research processes and embrac[e] the messy-ness of entangled worlds" (ibid., p3), as well as the implications of such moves for research methodology and praxis.
A/Prof Wendy Steele
Associate Professor
RMIT University
Panel Member
A/Prof Sandie Suchet-Pearson
Associate Professor
Macquarie University
Panel Member
Dr Leah Gibbs
Senior Lecturer
University of Wollongong
Panel Member
Dr Catherine Phillips
Academic
University of Melbourne
Panel Member
Chairperson
Sarah Robertson
PhD Candidate
RMIT University