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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 PM

Abstract 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

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