Becoming Flock

• In Event: Messing with Methods in More-than-Human Worlds I

Abstract

This paper presents an auto-ethnographic account of raising sheep, and its impact on the author’s broader research in multispecies ethnography. Focus is placed on how insider/outsider perspectives play out in practice, and how best to (re)present the animals’ dynamic relations with each other and with the shepherd/researcher. More specifically, creative and speculative works are presented as both research methods and research outputs — troubling traditional criteria of validity and opening a discussion around public scholarship and impact.

Author

• Anne Galloway, Victoria University of Wellington