Participation in More-Than-Human Research: By Whom? For Whom?

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

The current environmental emergency, referred to by some as the Anthropocene, sets a new requirement for the academic community to respond to diverse, human and more-than-human, ways of being and knowing. In this symposium scholars from the fields of childhood studies, human-animal studies, science education and environmental education rise up to the challenge. Together, we ask: Who is allowed to produce knowledge in scientific research? On whose terms and for whose benefit? These questions, together with reflecting on various participatory projects from ecological, multispecies and more-than-human conceptual frameworks inform a conversation on how different kinds of knowledge, human and more-than-human alike, could be regarded as such in educational research and what transformations this would bring to current scientific practices.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Environmental Education

Chair

• Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu

Papers

• Reconceptualizing Participation in Ecological Citizen Science: From Straight Lines to Messy Spaces - Marina Pliushchik, University of Oulu; Maria Helena Saari, University of Oulu

• Exploring Ratty Places With Young People: How Can Ecological Research Open Opportunities for More-Than-Human Participation? - Anttoni Kervinen, University of Helsinki; Riikka Hohti, University of Oulu; Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu; Maria Helena Saari, University of Oulu; Tuure Tammi, University of Oulu; Tuomas Aivelo, University of Helsinki

• Between Ruins and Odd Hope: Multispecies Assemblages and Atmospheres in Research With Young People - Riikka Hohti, University of Oulu

• On or With or By? Ethics in More-Than-Human Research - Linnea M.E. Bodén, Stockholm University

Discussant

• Amy Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles, Southern Cross University