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End of the life as we know it: re-reading oral tradition within the framework of posthuman 
Convenors:
Tiina Seppä (University of Eastern Finland)
Jyrki Pöysä (University of Eastern Finland)
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Format:
Panel
Stream:
POSTHUMANISM
:
Room H-205
Sessions:
Tuesday 14 June, -
Time zone: Europe/London

Short Abstract:

In our panel we are looking for post-apocalyptic perspectives on folklore and folk life materials. The presentations may use vernacular poetry, popular culture and other representations as the basis of analysis.

Long Abstract:

In the situation of the sixth extinction and the climate crisis, also the folklore sources and oral tradition materials need to be seen in new light. One of the most interesting and fruitful frameworks is the posthuman aspect. Stressing the importance of the interspecies interrelations of different species, animals and plants and the planetary (including 'inorganic life' such as water, air and rocks, see Wills 2016) perspectives is putting new challenges also for research. Folklorists have also started to regard perspectives from posthumanist research (Hayles 1999, Haraway 2005, Tsing 2015, Latour 2018).

However, being, existing and communicating with other than humans run through the oral tradition materials. Especially the mythical world of oral poetry includes a remarkable number of instances of communication with the non-human, most of it constituting dialogue with natural entities in day-to-day life.

Perhaps the apocalypses in the oral poems are more like dystopias: world may seem the same, but some details are bizarre and strange: these worlds are described in descriptions of hereafter. In case of climate crisis and the nature extinction, the world may be the same, but some details are fundamentally different. The life in the form we know it is changing.

Accepted papers:

Session 1 Tuesday 14 June, 2022, -
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