Staying Proximate

Outi Rantala; Veera Kinnunen; Emily Höckert; Bryan S. R. Grimwood; Chris E. Hurst; Gunnar Thor Jóhannesson; Salla Jutila; Carina Ren; Michaela J. Stinson; Anu Valtonen; Joonas Vola

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_1

Staying Proximate

Outi Rantala, Veera Kinnunen, Emily Höckert, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Chris E. Hurst, Gunnar Thor Jóhannesson, Salla Jutila, Carina Ren, Michaela J. Stinson, Anu Valtonen, Joonas Vola

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Abstract

The introductory chapter ‘Staying proximate’ welcomes the reader to stay with more-than-human relations in present times of ecological crisis, known as the age of the Anthropocene. The chapter joins feminist, postcolonial, and Indigenous environmental scholars’ call for more nuanced alternatives to the Anthropocenic imaginary, ones that attend to the multiplicity, difference, and uneven distribution of more-than-human responsibilities, vulnerabilities, and sufferings in the world. We seek alternatives to the distancing, generalising, and even apocalyptic imaginaries of the Anthropocene by engaging with mundane beings, relations, and places in the north. By gathering around uncomfortable concerns, we develop modes of proximity as affirmative entry points underlining the commitment to stay with the trouble in caring, sensitive, and thoughtful ways. We suggest openness, affinity, engagement, irritation, middleness, and scopic modes of attuning to and engaging with more-than-human worlds. It is these modes of attuning to our proximate relations that provide a radical standpoint of proximity that intensifies, enriches, and complicates our research inquiries in such times of all-encompassing ecological turmoil.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Researching with Proximity
Subtitle of host publication	Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene
Editors	Outi Rantala, Veera Kinnunen, Emily Höckert
Place of Publication	Cham
Publisher	Palgrave Macmillan
Pages	1-19
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-39500-0
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-39499-7, 978-3-031-39502-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_1
Publication status	Published - 2023
MoEC publication type	B2 Part of a book or another research book

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Series	Arctic Encounters
ISSN	2730-6488

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Sociology
History and archaeology

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Rantala, O., Kinnunen, V., Höckert, E., Grimwood, B. S. R., Hurst, C. E., Jóhannesson, G. T., Jutila, S., Ren, C., Stinson, M. J., Valtonen, A., & Vola, J. (2023). Staying Proximate. In O. Rantala, V. Kinnunen, & E. Höckert (Eds.), Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene (pp. 1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_1

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