Wild Thinking With Water: Dreams and Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium addresses the conference theme of dreams, possibilities and the necessities of public education through wild thinking with water as a research practice of ‘imagining impossible things’. We conceive of water, ‘one of the frontlines for the impacts of climate change’, as offering its own form of public education, an education that is without boundaries, that gathers up ‘stories from around the globe’ while respecting ‘the particularities of cultures, times, and places’. We examine the flows, ripples, and movements of a water-like learning/research as fundamental to all human life, provoking new conversations in qualitative inquiry that reach for new understandings of the human and new concepts of thought required of climate change (Colebrook, 2012).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Teija Loytonen, Aalto University

Papers

• Meeting of the Waters: Death and the Global Materialities of Litter - Susan Naomi Nordstrom, The University of Memphis; Margaret Jean Somerville, University of Western Sydney

• Fluid Water Inquiries: Subjects and Water—Water-Subjects - Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland; Sonja Arndt, University of Waikato

• Writing With Water: Rising Tides, Shifting Shorelines, and Movements at the Floe Edge - Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University

• Befriending Snow: On Data as a Research Companion - Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu; Anna Vladimirova, University of Oulu

Discussant

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University