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Multispecies relations: care and creativity in times of crisis 
Convenors:
Sophie Chao (University of Sydney)
Anne Galloway (Victoria University, Wellington)
Laura McLauchlan (University of New South Wales)
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Format:
Panel
Sessions:
Tuesday 30 November, -
Time zone: Australia/Sydney

Short Abstract:

This panel explores current and emergent approaches to understanding and reconfiguring multispecies relations. We seek ethnographic, theoretical, multi-modal, and/or interdisciplinary papers that articulate expansive, capacious, and relational approaches to the more-than-human world.

Long Abstract:

Every day seems to bring more stories of multispecies suffering and planetary unraveling. Responses to the fires that ravaged Australia in the Black Summer of 2019-20 made it clear that the 'natural world', and not only humans, can suffer injustices. To our collective detriment, Indigenous understandings of human-environment relations remain systematically excluded. In the face of these contemporary realities, how well are the existing rules, norms and institutional processes that structure our responses to injustice faring? What can be learnt from Indigenous worlds and worldviews, and how can they be better recognised and restored? How might our responsibility for/with other lives shift in relational perspective(s)? What opportunities and challenges emerge when we apply culturally specific (human) concepts like 'justice' to other forms of life? In the face of violence and calls for reckoning, where do 'good relations' already exist, and persist? How do forgiveness, kindness, and love continue to operate in everyday life? What mending practices are being undertaken, and at which scales? We seek ethnographically grounded contributions inspired by situated locales and ecologies, as well as interdisciplinary and theoretical papers. Multi-modal presentations (e.g. film, poetry, and visual art) are also strongly welcome.

Read more about the panel participants here: https://sophiechao.wixsite.com/aas2021

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 30 November, 2021, -
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