Wild Swimming Methodologies for Decolonial Feminist Justice-to-Come Scholarship
TL;DR: In this article , the authors focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and draw on hauntology to think about the possibilities of such methodologies for troubling normative academic practices directed at different ways of being and becoming.
Abstract: This article thinks with oceans and swimming, in dialogue with decolonial feminist materialist approaches and other current novel methodologies which foreground embodiment and relational ontologies, in order to consider the conceptual potential of such diffractions for the project of alternative scholarly practices. We focus on swimming in the sea as one form of wild methodology and Slow scholarship that draws on hauntology to think about the possibilities of such methodologies for troubling normative academic practices directed at different ways of being and becoming. Located in the (post-)apartheid space of South African higher education, which continues to follow and reinstate colonial, patriarchal and neoliberal capitalist logics, we ask questions about the silences around material histories of subjugation and violence that are embedded in the institution and the lives of those who enter these spaces. Propositions are made about how a swimming methodology may inspire a consciousness and engagement with intersectional gender hauntings that permeate the material, curricula, relational and affective spaces of academia as part of disrupting and reimagining the university as a space of/for justice and flourishing. We explore the ways in which embodied, affective methodologies in or near the ocean/s may be deployed to subvert and reconfigure, to make and stay with trouble. We therefore propose sea swimming as a powerful way of thinking with the sea in productive and creative ways for scholarship towards a justice-to-come, to open up new imaginaries of scholarship that make a difference.
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TL;DR: This article explored how recreational sports and physical activities shape participants' relationships to ocean and coastal ecologies, and explored how the encounters they have when immersed in the ocean can create a sense of vulnerability that acts to remind us we are part of the ocean ecology.
Abstract: To date, research about human-environmental health and wellbeing thinking has tended to centre the health and wellbeing benefits for humans from time spent in nature. That is, we remain most concerned with the benefits of ‘nature’ to human health. However, nature-based sports and physical activities, like swimming and surfing, challenge such human-centerdness by ‘resituating’ swimmers and surfers in multispecies ecologies. By creating opportunities for experiencing encounters that highlight our vulnerability, sports and physical activities offer an example of how ecologies are part of our everyday lives in real ways, and have great value in encouraging greater environmental awareness and care across communities. Drawing on ecofeminist frameworks, I have been exploring how recreational sports and physical activities shape participants’ relationships to ocean and coastal ecologies. In this discussion I will draw on fieldwork and interview data with ocean swimmers and surfers to explore how the encounters they have when immersed in the ocean can create a sense of vulnerability that acts to remind us we are part of the ocean ecology. In this way, sport and leisure have great value for activating a greater sense of how human and environmental futures are interconnected.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the figuration of becoming-octopus is used to consider what a posthuman, post-anthropocentric ethics might look, be, and feel like, and how it might matter in relation to the complex afflictions social workers are at once entangled with and called to respond to, in the twenty-first century.
Abstract: This chapter provides provocations for reconfiguring social work ethics by engaging with posthuman and post-anthropocentric imaginaries. It uses the figuration of becoming-octopus to consider what a posthuman, post-anthropocentric ethics might look, be, and feel like, and how it might matter in relation to the complex afflictions social workers are at once entangled with and called to respond to, in the twenty-first century. Like much of posthuman and post-anthropocentric scholarship, making multispecies encounters and entanglements the basis of a reconfiguration of social work ethics is a complex undertaking. This chapter is informed by multispecies encounters with an octopus’s modes of being and becoming and the ways in which it crafts and responds to whatever it encounters. A highly attentive creature, octopuses use their sensory capacities to deeply attune to their surrounds. This chapter shows how by becoming-octopus, social work ethics might be reconfigured as sensibilities – those of being of the world rather than in the world, attunement, beyond subject/object, curiosity, attentiveness, and response-ability. Such sensibilities might prove useful for social work to creatively tune in to arts of living that matter on a disturbed and damaged planet.
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TL;DR: The authors explore how quilted poetry as methodology, through the practice of collaborative writing, can help us to attune to and think with what is un/seen, un/heard, and un/spoken in our bio-digital ways of working, as a way of resisting normative, exploitative practices in the neoliberal academia.
Abstract: In this article, we explore how quilted poetry as methodology, through the practice of collaborative writing, can help us to attune to and think with what is un/seen, un/heard, and un/spoken in our bio‐digital ways of working, as a way of resisting normative, exploitative practices in the neoliberal academia. We are a group of academics with different journeys and localities, connected by a common interest in the effects of boundaries, the dynamics of power, and the desire to do things differently. Drawing on our daily mundane encounters with/in both virtual and physical spaces of academia, including Teams meetings, Outlook emails, Google documents, and Miro board collaborations, we write quilted poetry with fragments of precarious matter: silences, messages, rhythms, feelings, and materialities. We attend to the entanglement of our bodies and their enmeshment in technology and share how bringing relational, feminist theories and the bio‐digital together has helped us to both materialise new patterns of relations and enact a more ethical approach to working in academia.
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