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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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.

Alkuperäiskieli	englanti
Otsikko	Researching with Proximity
Alaotsikko	Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene
Toimittajat	Outi Rantala, Veera Kinnunen, Emily Höckert
Julkaisupaikka	Cham
Kustantaja	Palgrave Macmillan
Sivut	1-19
Sivumäärä	19
ISBN (elektroninen)	978-3-031-39500-0
ISBN (painettu)	978-3-031-39499-7, 978-3-031-39502-4
DOI - pysyväislinkit	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_1
Tila	Julkaistu - 2023
OKM-julkaisutyyppi	B2 Vertaisarvioimaton artikkeli kirjassa

Julkaisusarja

Sarja	Arctic Encounters
ISSN	2730-6488

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arctic
anthropocene
storytelling
environmental damage
socio-environmental
relational ontologies
relational theories
sustainability transformations

Tieteenala

Sosiologia
Historia ja arkeologia

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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. teoksessa O. Rantala, V. Kinnunen, & E. Höckert (Toimittajat), Researching with Proximity: Relational methodologies for the Anthropocene (Sivut 1-19). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39500-0_1

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