Becoming Earth

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Becoming Earth

   • Anne B. Reinertsen

   Pages 1-13

3. Qualitative Inquiry and the Measuring Apparatus

   • Jodi Kaufmann

   Pages 15-20

4. Killing the Mother?

   • Patti Lather

   Pages 21-30

5. Poetic Inquiry

   • Valerie J. Janesick

   Pages 31-40

6. Data as Constant Becomings

   • Louise Thomas

   Pages 41-51

7. “In-Betweens Spaces”

   • Nina Odegard, Nina Rossholt

   Pages 53-63

8. Featherlines

   • Margaret Somerville, Frances Bodkin

   Pages 65-83

9. Thinking Sensing Livingloving and Becoming Earth

   • Hanna Ellen Guttorm

   Pages 85-97

10. Notes on Wor(l)dly Becoming with Child/ren/hood(s)

    • Ann Merete Otterstad

    Pages 99-112

11. A Practice in Materialized Refiguration

    • Liz Jones

    Pages 113-121

12. Ungrounding Earth

    • Camilla Eline Andersen

    Pages 123-136

13. The Call to Performance

    • Norman Denzin

    Pages 137-161

14. Sustainable Eco-Justice Placemaking

    • Anne Beate Reinertsen

    Pages 163-175

Becoming earth is about how we can write and tell stories in a way that allows us to collaborate and be stewards and partners of the (natural) world – our earth – rather than dominators of it. That is what this assemblage is about: about trying to take seriously the minor politics of sensing, experimenting with questions of attending and attuning to difference, contestation, nomadism, relationality, and permeability in sensing cultivating muchness, newness, communities of acceptance and decision making. Going beyond the binaries, dualisms, instrumentalist criteria, etc., and supplying third space conceptions of agency not tied to human action alone, but rather examining human and more-than human relational assemblages of affecting and being affected. The tasks for educators becoming not merely people who pass on traditions, institutions, systems and/or structures, but prepare for future contingent events ultimately creates vital pedagogies of many prospects in our classrooms and exceeds forms of contracts between generations. These are embodied ecologies and/or enacting ecologies in practice showing the practical and political strength of new materialisms and presenting its potential and usefulness to simultaneously work and analyse local and global political strategies and sustainability. Making virtuality productive as a form of life: our wonderings are thus always stronger than our assertions. The sometimes fierce stories in this book might light some paths.

• Embodied ecologies
• Storying nature–culture enactments
• Sustainable futures
• Minor politics of sensing
• Post-athroposcene sciences
• Vitalist materialism
• Ecological literacy
• Wor(l)dly becomings
• Pedagogies of affect
• Pedagogies of care-full observations
• Pedagogies of organized chaos
• Ontological turn in research
• Eco-edu-pansemiotics
• Placemaking sustainability
• Generative generationality
• Sustainable liberation
• Infra-empiricism

• Queen Maud University College, Norway

  Anne B. Reinertsen

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