Multi-species Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) special session on Artful Publishing

Multi-species Ethnography and Artistic Methods (MEAM) conference, invited speaker for the special session on Artful Publishing, online presentation.

Academia and Arts are intersecting at an exponential speed and researchers and artists are collaborating worldwide around a range of pertinent topics – not the least environmental concerns and on more-than-human and multi-species questions. Multi-species ethnography is expanding across a range of different fields, both in research and education, engaging a vast array of analytical frameworks. Multi-species ethnographers increasingly engage in creative and artistic methods, such as different expressions of creative writing, photo and film making as well as drawing, painting and poetry, to capture relatings beyond the human. There are ample opportunities for cross pollination between multi-species ethnography and the feminist scholarship tradition of using creative methods to further othered perspectives. Artful methods are becoming more common in academia proper and taking up their place in methodological choices even when collaborations with artists are out of reach. But how to publish creative/artistic/artful expressions in ways that do not do away with disciplinary analytical and methodological rigour?

Session: 4th July 2023.