This outdoor workshop, drawing from the inclusivity at the heart of the ‘commons’, explores how we can challenge species hierarchies within (psychological) anthropological research and pedagogy.
Contribution long abstract
The framework of the ‘commons’, when applied to the pedagogic methods of (psychological) anthropology, invites us to imagine less hierarchical and inclusive ways of imagining and teaching, the ethnographic methodology. This outdoor workshop will explore the possibilities, and problems, of making the discipline more inclusive to non-human beings. If, following the multi-species turn and a recent shift towards post-humanism, we accept that the ‘human’ can be co-constituted through non-human entanglements, how do we prepare students to include non-humans in their analytical frameworks before they enter the field? What epistemologies, embodied techniques, or interdisciplinary collaborations can we find to challenge the current human-centric focus of anthropological pedagogy? We will use our own bodies as sites to explore these questions, practising techniques that could be used to invite non-humans into our classrooms, or more importantly, students into non-human outdoor realms.