Insights From Youth Co-Created Photographic Journeys Into More-Than-Human Relations With Nature and Affectively Charged Entanglements

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Abstract

In this paper, we explore human-material-nature relations by tuning into two visual co-created data sets that emerged from joint work with youth in two different science clubs that the first author ran over time in collaboration with a community organization and a high school. We ask, 1) what relations and storylines do the photographs taken by the youth speak to and center? and 2) how do they shift our gaze and understanding toward heterogeneity, multiplicity, and profusion as radically generative for educational research? Both cases speak to relations in different ways. We conclude by making connections between the presented cases and the interrogation of what science and environmental education is and who can become a science person or environmental activist.

Author

• Jrene Rahm, University of Montréal