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Resonances: tuning into the echoes of the ecological collective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 December 2020

Helen Widdop Quinton Open the ORCID record for Helen Widdop Quinton [Opens in a new window] ,
Kumara Ward ,
Marilyn Ahearn  and
Teresa Carapeto
Helen Widdop Quinton*
Affiliation:
Victoria University, Melbourne, Australia
Kumara Ward
Affiliation:
University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK
Marilyn Ahearn
Affiliation:
Southern Cross University, Gold Coast, Australia
Teresa Carapeto
Affiliation:
Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, Australia
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*Corresponding author. E-mail: helen.widdop-quinton@vu.edu.au
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Abstract

Drawing on posthumanist and new materialism theorising, we take the concept of resonance for an a/r/tographic ‘walk’ to know, be and do differently, to challenge human-centric separatist ways that have resulted in our current socioecological crises. Beginning with Ingold’s knotty thinking, we identify the notion of resonance as a node for exploring and thinking about interactions in the world. Guided by Barad’s proposition of entangling ethico-onto-epistemic ways, our a/r/tographic thought experiments find resonances that echo through bodies, through connections as nature, through deep-time and modern spaces to notice and attend to intraactions within the ecological collective. Through art-full, thought-full scholartistic enquiry, we explore diffractive encounters to consider resonance as a conceptual tool for tuning into and harmonising with the entanglements of body–mind–space–time–matter. We pose this exploration of resonance as the start of a knotty theory conversation for shifting into a new ‘common world’ knowing, being and doing.

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socioecological approacharts-basedtheoriesemergent thinkingenvironmental philosophypractice
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Australian Journal of Environmental Education , Volume 36 , Special Issue 2: Mapping-making philosophy in environmental education: Lines, knots and knotting , July 2020 , pp. 169 - 188
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