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Transmaterial worlding : beyond human systems

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Abstract

In this paper we reframe systemic social construction as transmaterial worlding to include human and non-human participants. We discuss what it means to be human in the Anthropocene era with reference to posthuman new materialist theory. We introduce systemic living as onto-epistemological becoming, movement and meaning-making practices in and between human and non-human parts of our worlds. The paper discusses power relations and ways of bringing forth lost-destroyed indigenous ways of knowing which make time and space for new understandings and experimental responses to what we are making together at a local and global level. We discuss how transmaterial worlding requires a new understanding by humans to see their place in this planet as co-inhabitation. We offer examples of transmaterial worlding from across different contexts and suggest some systemic questions for how we can live ethically in a transmaterial world that honours societal, cultural, professional and other kinds of situated knowledge and know-how.

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 1-17

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Murmurations: Journal of Transformative Systemic Practice (Volume 2, Issue 2)

Publication milestones

  • Accepted/In press - 17/12/2019
  • Published - 31/12/2019

Publication status

Published - 31/12/2019

ISSN

2516-0052

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/624707

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