Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Kervinen, Anttoni; Hohti, Riikka; Rautio, Pauliina; Saari, Maria Helena; Tammi, Tuure; Aivelo, Tuomas (2024-02-28)
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28.02.2024
Kervinen, A., Hohti, R., Rautio, P., Saari, M. H., Tammi, T., & Aivelo, T. (2024). Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people. Environmental Education Research, 30(7), 1129–1146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2314037
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© 2024 informa uK limited, trading as taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Environmental Education Research. Kervinen, A., Hohti, R., Rautio, P., Saari, M. H., Tammi, T., & Aivelo, T. (2024). Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people. Environmental Education Research, 30(7), 1129–1146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2314037. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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© 2024 informa uK limited, trading as taylor & Francis Group. This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Environmental Education Research. Kervinen, A., Hohti, R., Rautio, P., Saari, M. H., Tammi, T., & Aivelo, T. (2024). Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people. Environmental Education Research, 30(7), 1129–1146. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2024.2314037. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Abstract
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches might intersect and co-exist without abandoning their respective aims. In this paper, we analyse a case of ecological citizen science inquiry on urban rats to explore theoretical and practical opportunities for environmental education that arise from bridging the posthumanist call for attentiveness towards multispecies worlds with. We reconceptualize ecological inquiry as sharing atmospheres with other animals as well as through its material aspects to articulate conceptual tools to disrupt the subject-object division of knowledge creation between humans and other animals.
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches might intersect and co-exist without abandoning their respective aims. In this paper, we analyse a case of ecological citizen science inquiry on urban rats to explore theoretical and practical opportunities for environmental education that arise from bridging the posthumanist call for attentiveness towards multispecies worlds with. We reconceptualize ecological inquiry as sharing atmospheres with other animals as well as through its material aspects to articulate conceptual tools to disrupt the subject-object division of knowledge creation between humans and other animals.
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