Passionate immersions in nature-cultures of the everyday

Jen Dollin

Research output: Chapter in Book / Conference PaperChapter

Abstract

For some, the provocation of the era of the Anthropocene demands ethical, nature–culture responses that develop new pathways of thinking and an attentiveness to how knowledge and learning is co-constituted. There has been a call for scholarly work that develops “passionate immersions” in our multi-species world. But how does one do this, I wonder? How can we come to new ethical responses of being, knowing and doing? Where should one even start? In this chapter I share my learning endeavours in working through these questions, deploying a critical creative/cultural writing methodology. I start where I am situated, embodied in my place of the everyday, thinking deeply about where I have come from, my family connections to place and the implications for knowledge creation. Through considerations of family relationships to rivers and eels beyond local river systems and waterways, I will explore family histories and aquatic journeys, mixing biology and cultural studies. I will investigate learning systems and remaking relationships through immersion in familiar places. This process has brought to life a whole range of new notions about what it is to think, write and research and be situated and attuned to nature–cultures of the everyday.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSocial Ecology and Education: Transforming Worldviews and Practices
EditorsDavid Wright, Stuart B. Hill
Place of PublicationU.K.
PublisherRoutledge
Pages131-141
Number of pages11
ISBN (Electronic)9781003033462
ISBN (Print)9780367471088
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2021

Keywords

  • instructional systems
  • culture
  • ethics

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