1st Edition
Living and Loving as Research Methodologies
List of contributors
Foreword
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Apocalyptic methods towards reworlding
Linh S. Nguyễn, Girinandini Singh, and Yuanting Qiu
Part One: Listening and relationshipping as methodology in motion
- Becoming with the everyday: Practicing love, care, and muscular hope
Amanda Brady Deaton and Maureen Flint
2. Holding space as method: Endarkened feminist epistemology and African American mothers
Keishana L. Barnes
3. A bag of beans and a shopping spree: Caring about rural lives and lands in Nepal, and about research practices everywhere
Sam Staddon and Sanjaya Khatri
4. Uncontained Silences: Exploring the Affective Tensions of Silence as a Method of Knowledge-Making
Girinandini Singh
Part Two: Navigating discomforting affects
5. “What spills, what seeps, what weeps”: Attending to crying as research method
Linh S. Nguyễn
6. “Everything can be used / except what is wasteful”: Photography as a method for embracing anger
Stephanie Gomes Reis
7. An autobiography of an other: The unrepresentable speaks in fused languages
Yueran (Sandy) Yang
Part Three: Fleshy bodies as subversive ‘data’ blocks
8. Dirt, desire, and data: The monstrous politics of embodied knowing
Lance Peng
9. Hugging as method: Burst balloons, experimenting beyond control
Yuanting Qiu and Lushi Liu
10. Living and loving slippery bodies: Making knowledge with poetic resonance
Amalie Scheel and Minke Nouwens
Part Four: Entangled encounters as emergent epistemologies
11. Foraging for a methodology: wildcrafting post-qualitative multispecies worlds
Jay Levontine
12. Leaning into: Breathing with birch and other multispecies ecologies
Linda Lapiņa and Charlotte Grum
13. Growling loving: Living/becoming-with dogs in multispecies research
Polina Golovátina-Mora and Anna Maria Karczewska
Biography
Linh S. Nguyễn is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is also a children’s author and creative writing workshop facilitator.
Girinandini Singh is a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is also a Museum Education specialist, writer, and a poet.
Yuanting Qiu is a Cambridge Trust International Scholar as a doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. She is also a dancer and a published non-fiction writer.
