Conference presentation
Recalibrating resilience: A feminist intervention towards understanding children’s water, weather, and waste relations in uncertain times
Conference. Young People, Well-Being, resilience and enterprise: Critical perspectives for the Anthropocene (The University of the Basque Region, Bilbao, Spain, 05/09/2019–07/09/2019)
2019
Abstract
Feminist scholars’ critiques of the Anthropocene shed light on the necessity to generate new ways of thinking and doing to respond differently to the unique qualities of our contemporary world (Gibson, Rose, and Fincher, 2015). Affrica Taylor’s recent scholarship (2019), shows what is possible by bringing together feminist environmental humanities with her common worlds ethnographic research with children and wildlife by challenging some of the ‘masculine conceits of the Anthropos” (p.2).
Inspired by Taylor’s feminist and intentional research practices of slowing down, scaling down, and paying attention to what is already happening in children’s common worlds, we use these as a starting point in our own Anthropocene-responsive common worlds research. In particular we experiment with these across three different, yet interrelated multispecies ethnographies of children’s relations with water (Blaise), weather (Pollitt), and waste (Merewether) in Perth, Western Australia to recalibrate notions of resilience. Our presentation highlights how these feminist interventions are activating new research practices that move away from a logic of autonomy, flexibility, and ‘springing back’ that dominate current understandings of children’s worldly relations. In particular we will show how embodied interventions of attention are making space for a logic of connectivity that is ethical, generative, multiple, and ephemeral.
Details
- Title
- Recalibrating resilience: A feminist intervention towards understanding children’s water, weather, and waste relations in uncertain times
- Authors/Creators
- Mindy Blaise - Edith Cowan UniversityJane Merewether PhD - Murdoch University, School of EducationJ. Pollitt
- Conference
- Conference. Young People, Well-Being, resilience and enterprise: Critical perspectives for the Anthropocene (The University of the Basque Region, Bilbao, Spain, 05/09/2019–07/09/2019)
- Identifiers
- 991005562166807891
- Murdoch Affiliation
- School of Education
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation
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