Memories of a Girl Between Worlds: Speculative Common Worldings

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Abstract

This paper combines collective biography, diffractive analysis, and speculative fabulation to weave together our childhood memories of “common worlding”. Our collective biography brings into focus how we engaged in common worlding in our own childhoods through dreaming, metamorphosis, and play by tactfully moving across different worlds and learning with the human and more-than-human others we encountered. As we foreground childhood memory and its potential to reimagine pasts, presents, and futures, we explore what kind of conditions are necessary to (re)attune ourselves to the multiple worlds around us in order to maintain and nurture children’s - and our own - other-worldly connections.

Authors

• Esther do Lago e Pretti, Mary Lou Fulton Teachers College Arizona State University

• Jieyu Jiang, Arizona State University

• Ann Walker Nielsen, Arizona State University

• Janna Goebel, Arizona State University

• Iveta Silova, Arizona State University