ORCID
- Claire Walsh: 0009-0002-0522-5447
Abstract
less “staying with the trouble” and more getting into trouble(Hara)wayfaring myths as acts of activism.A child. A climate leader. A storyteller. A Professor Emerita.A missing book.Just how much trouble is there for getting into?***Attending Haraway, there is no steady ground. No political, theoretical, or logical reassurance into which uncertainty can dissipate. I want you to act as if our house is on fire. Instead, attending Haraway is to subvert uncertainty, go beyond its surfacing anxieties and respond from its depths with a figuring relationality, forming kin…A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it. Take the shot from the weapon.… collective enunciation, world-making acts within the trouble.You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world starts to fill up with non-knowers? Deepening into uncertainty’s wake these acts become open to mystery, provoking story-telling that delves into our response(ability) in the unfinished present.And then I want you to act, I want you to act as if you would in a crisis.In an openness to unexpected approaches, navigate the mystery of the Anthropocenic self. Behold the child. The missing book. Harken the whispers of stories of worth. (Hara)wayfare a myth reenvisaging our response(ability) in the present moment. ***An unexplained gap has appeared amongst the restricted booksand Mr Beatty, the school librarian, wants answers…ReferencesBradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 452. London: HarperVoyager, 2013.Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.Thunberg, Greta. “Our House is on Fire”. World Economic Forum (January, 2019). Accessed: March 6, 2024.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/our-house-is-on-fire-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-speaks-truth-to-power/.
Publication Date
2024-04-17
Event
AiPH Online Doctoral Conference: Imagining different futures: adventures in posthuman doctoral research and supervision
Keywords
postqualitative enquiry, activism, nonviolence, literary education, experimental methodologies, theory and philosophy, qualitative research, research methodology, storying, curriculum
Recommended Citation
Walsh, C. (2024) 'Less 'staying with the trouble' and more getting into trouble: (Hara)wayfaring myths as acts of activism', Retrieved from https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/sc-research/640
