Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages
In this article, we adopt assemblage as methodology and as a way to foreground the vitality and relational agency of other species as they encounter humans. Research as assemblage is a process of becoming with others, and we experienced that ontological process during three environmental excursions...
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| description | In this article, we adopt assemblage as methodology and as a way to foreground the vitality and relational agency of other species as they encounter humans. Research as assemblage is a process of becoming with others, and we experienced that ontological process during three environmental excursions as we became entangled in multispecies assemblages with children, the Crow, the Sea Eagle and the Bee. The production of the three assemblages and the rhizomic networks that formed materially and discursively across time occurred within an affective milieu characterised by sensory attentiveness and attunement to the affective power of coincidence. Analysing the formation and reformation of the assemblages enabled us to identify the phenomenon of “ontological flickering” where the ontological foundation of experience shifted moment by moment and remained playfully unresolved. We also consider how multispecies encounters relate to wildness, understood in Thoreau’s terms as unsettling encounters with otherness. In concluding, we recognise our incomplete becoming with others as co-authors and acknowledge the Crow the Sea Eagle and the Bee as powerful teachers. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-d6785c66e72f413cb0d978610fdeb4f52025-08-20T03:41:47ZengCambridge University PressAustralian Journal of Environmental Education0814-06262049-775X2024-04-014020021510.1017/aee.2024.24Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies AssemblagesPeter Renshaw0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2052-2055Kirsty Jackson1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8535-2368Ron Tooth2https://orcid.org/0009-0003-0016-3088School of Education, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, AustraliaSchool of Education, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, AustraliaSchool of Education, The University of Queensland, Saint Lucia, QLD, AustraliaIn this article, we adopt assemblage as methodology and as a way to foreground the vitality and relational agency of other species as they encounter humans. Research as assemblage is a process of becoming with others, and we experienced that ontological process during three environmental excursions as we became entangled in multispecies assemblages with children, the Crow, the Sea Eagle and the Bee. The production of the three assemblages and the rhizomic networks that formed materially and discursively across time occurred within an affective milieu characterised by sensory attentiveness and attunement to the affective power of coincidence. Analysing the formation and reformation of the assemblages enabled us to identify the phenomenon of “ontological flickering” where the ontological foundation of experience shifted moment by moment and remained playfully unresolved. We also consider how multispecies encounters relate to wildness, understood in Thoreau’s terms as unsettling encounters with otherness. In concluding, we recognise our incomplete becoming with others as co-authors and acknowledge the Crow the Sea Eagle and the Bee as powerful teachers.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0814062624000247/type/journal_articleAffective milieuenchantmentflickering ontologiesmultispecies assemblageswildness |
| spellingShingle | Peter Renshaw Kirsty Jackson Ron Tooth Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages Australian Journal of Environmental Education Affective milieu enchantment flickering ontologies multispecies assemblages wildness |
| title | Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages |
| title_full | Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages |
| title_fullStr | Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages |
| title_full_unstemmed | Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages |
| title_short | Assemblages in Flight: Flickering Ontologies and Wildness in the Formation of Multispecies Assemblages |
| title_sort | assemblages in flight flickering ontologies and wildness in the formation of multispecies assemblages |
| topic | Affective milieu enchantment flickering ontologies multispecies assemblages wildness |
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