Being in an environment: a performative perspective

Pickering, Andrew

doi:10.1051/nss/2013067

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“…We do not observe a behavior of childrenforest; we observe a communion of children and forest, their "becoming with" (Haraway, 2008) that reveals itself through patterns, generals (habits, regularities) (Kohn, 2013), traces, inclinations, and neglected confluences (see further). Among these, signs with indexical reference can also be classified as islands of stability (Pickering, 2013(Pickering, , 2017.…”

Section: Customizing Curious Practice and Unplanning Research Theoretmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Neither children nor trees/animals/air/snow hold a position of priority. Everyone is transformed in the dances of agency (Pickering, 2013) or transmogrified by the worldly dynamic processes. The desire to find stability, albeit illusory, is inherent in humans and nonhumans as we are as all living organisms that seek for survival; thus, we are in need of structures, which, however, are still under the control of nature and its "unpredictable liveliness" (Pickering, 2017, p. 143).…”

Section: Customizing Curious Practice and Unplanning Research Theoretmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…By thinking with Kohn, we attend to the ways of looking at childrenforest through the notion of "human and nonhuman semiotic selves" to go beyond mere symbolic representation inherent in humans. We also apply Andrew Pickering's ( 2013Pickering's ( , 2017 concepts of decentered becoming and islands of stability to the encounters of children and forest to demonstrate the co-constitutive becoming of children and forest and the appearance of seemingly stable configurations within this becoming.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Unplanning Research with a Curious Practice Methodology: Emergence of Childrenforest in the Context of Finland

Vladimirova¹,

Rautio²

2020

Springer International Handbooks of Education

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This chapter explores the notion of curious practice and the methodology of its application in the context of primary school education in Finland. The concept of curious practice encourages usresearchers and educatorsto ask "How does curious practice help us to address children's relations to forests beyond the child (in) nature dualism?" Curious practice challenges the existing environmental education methodologies employed in recent years that draw heavily on research planning, the child's representation of nature, and the results of a completed study. Despret's (Domesticating practices: The case of Arabian Babblers. In G. Marvin and S. McHugh (Eds.), Routledge handbook of human-animal studies (pp. 23-38). New York: Routledge, 2014) approach of curious practice encourages researchers to unplan and make themselves available to the yet unknown, for every single encounter with the other is a mixture of unpredictability, the researcher's attentiveness, and imagination. The rationale behind curious practice is in learning more about what is seen and heard via questioning the encounters that accept various absences of a preconceived framework of research. As a necessary complement to such a methodology, the chapter also presents a semiotic approach, employed by Eduardo Kohn (How forests think: Toward an anthropology beyond the human. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013), to inform the method of studying the logic of the world beyond human symbolism. The data used reveal an interdependency of children and forests that will be referred to as childrenforest in that it continuously generates a network of signs which adults and children themselves often are unable to access or represent. These present absences found in curious practice are crucial for our understanding of what we have overlooked while claiming that the other is known. With that, however, childrenforest cannot be fully grasped. Andrew Pickering's (Natures Sciences Sociétés, 1(21), 77-83, 2013) notion of islands of stability is utilized to elaborate the ways that childrenforests signal the presence of the seemingly stable configurations of their dynamic becoming. The chapter concludes with a short discussion of the potential areas of curious practice application beyond the ethological and childhood research.

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Section: Customizing Curious Practice and Unplanning Research Theoretmentioning

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Section: Customizing Curious Practice and Unplanning Research Theoretmentioning

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Unplanning Research with a Curious Practice Methodology: Emergence of Childrenforest in the Context of Finland

Vladimirova¹,

Rautio²

2020

Springer International Handbooks of Education

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“…One way to establish a point of colonial difference is to take the performative, coproductive approach of Tim Ingold's "dwelling perspective," which sees knowledge of the environment as being shaped in movement through it and vice versa: the environment is shaped in interactions with it (Ingold 2000;Turnbull 2007Turnbull , 2012. A performative approach that opens up a point of colonial difference is one that is set in tension with the representationalism underpinning much of western scientific epistemology (Pickering 2013). Rather than assuming there is "a world out there" that is to be known and understood through representing it in the mind, a performative approach denies that divide.…”

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Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon

Turnbull

2019

Tapuya: Latin American Science, Technology and Society

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South American rock art and prehistory with all its controversies is a rich site for exploring the processes of territorialization through which humans shape their understanding of the world in their earliest movements through the environment, and also for examining how narratives of prehistory are woven. The paper examines the debate over the Cerutti Mastodon and why Serra da Capivara, one of the largest rock art complexes in the world, remains in analytic limbo. It suggests that rethinking these two examples may offer a possible way out of some of the analytic difficulties in South American prehistory through a decolonizing approach to understanding the reasons for the rejection of the Cerutti Mastodon, and the lack of recognition of Serra da Capivara's most important site-Bocqueirã da Pedra Furada (PBF).

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“…You will also quickly realise that the stuff their politics is made of far exceeds the Machiavellian dialectics of likely victories or inescapable defeats. These Latin American ontological campaigns, I wish to argue, are best approached using Andrew Pickering's (2015) analysis of nonmodern phenomenological experience and advocacy, at least for the time being.…”

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Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political

Venkatesan

Bear

Harvey

et al. 2017

Critique of Anthropology

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Being in an environment: a performative perspective

Cited by 28 publications

References 14 publications

Unplanning Research with a Curious Practice Methodology: Emergence of Childrenforest in the Context of Finland

Unplanning Research with a Curious Practice Methodology: Emergence of Childrenforest in the Context of Finland

Territorializing/decolonizing South American prehistory: Pedra Furada and the Cerutti Mastodon

Attention to infrastructure offers a welcome reconfiguration of anthropological approaches to the political

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