From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood
Book chapter
Osgood, J. 2022. From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood. in: Blyth, C. and Aslanian, T. (ed.) Children and the Power of Stories: Posthuman and Autoethnographic Perspectives in Early Childhood Education Singapore Springer. pp. 51-67
Chapter title | From multispecies tangles and Anthropocene muddles: what can lichen teach us about precarity and indeterminacy in early childhood |
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Authors | Osgood, J. |
Abstract | This paper pursues storytelling in the Anthropocene as a method of earthly survival and multispecies flourishing from capitalist ruins. Storytelling emerged from (an accidental method of) walking-with during a global pandemic; the figure of the modern-day flâneuse is mobilised as a feminist praxis to investigate infected, entangled and affective relationalities between the human, non-human and more-than-human as they unfold in the daily tangles to emerge from lock-down life in the city. It is through the art of noticing (Tsing, 2015) and the arts of living on a damage planet (Tsing et al., 2017) that a commitment to engaging with the ordinary, mundane and habitual muddle, that the world is viewed, sensed and encountered through a different set of optics. The stories that are told about lichen, a dead pigeon, and a deadly virus are curated from a specific geopolitical moment where the early childhood workforce, as a highly gendered and classed group of ‘essential’ frontline workers, suffer disproportionately. Storytelling provides a means to attune to life in Anthropocene that emphasises precarity, indeterminacy and hope. It is only by recognising that trans-corporeality demands an ethical response-ability to all life forms (Alaimo, 2016) that we might find a means of earthly survival |
Page range | 51-67 |
Book title | Children and the Power of Stories: Posthuman and Autoethnographic Perspectives in Early Childhood Education |
Editors | Blyth, C. and Aslanian, T. |
Publisher | Springer |
Place of publication | Singapore |
Series | Children: Global Posthumanist Perspectives and Materialist Theories |
ISBN | |
Hardcover | 9789811692864 |
Paperback | 9789811692895 |
Electronic | 9789811692871 |
Publication dates | |
Online | 05 Mar 2022 |
05 Mar 2022 | |
Publication process dates | |
Deposited | 22 Feb 2021 |
Accepted | 28 Jan 2021 |
Output status | Published |
Accepted author manuscript | |
Copyright Statement | This version of the chapter has been accepted for publication, after peer review (when applicable) and is subject to Springer Nature’s AM terms of use, but is not the Version of Record and does not reflect post-acceptance improvements, or any corrections. The Version of Record is available online at:https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9287-1_5 |
Additional information | Series ISSN: 2523-3408 |
Web address (URL) | https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-981-16-9287-1_5 |
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-9287-1_5 |
Language | English |
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