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Paper: Sickness, porousness, and enmeshment in ecological fictionCan sickness be a means to understand multispecies care? How might a parasitic infection in humans reveal Earthly interdependence? This paper explores how creative representations of sickness and care can conceptually enmesh human interests with those of a more-than-human world.
In response to a warming world, this paper works through a lens of situated knowledge, via Donna Haraway, to explore the challenges of representing human enmeshment and situatedness in biological communities. Drawing on examples from my own creative writing PhD, Learning to Live Here: Enmeshment and Complexity in Creative Writing About Climate Change, and from the creative work of others, I explore a frame of sickness through which ecological fiction can explore becoming-with non-human lives. I argue that this can decentre anthropocentric perspectives and open space for dynamic ecological relationships, in which the south is revealed as both a path for retreat from a warmer and more fire-prone world as well as a conceptual space in which we cluster in our human and non-human bodies, learning to live together.
| Period | 5 Jun 2024 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Adelaide, Australia, South AustraliaShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |
Keywords
- Ecofiction
- Posthumanism