Participatory Research in More-than-Human Worlds

Michelle Bastian is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Owain Jones is Professor of Environmental Humanities, School of Humanities and Cultural Industries, University of Bath Spa, UK. Niamh Moore is a Chancellor’s Fellow in the School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh, UK. Emma Roe is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Southampton, UK.

Introduction: More-than-human participatory research: contexts, challenges, possibilities

Michelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma Roe

Part 1: Experiments in more-than-human participatory research

1. Towards a more-than-human participatory research

Michelle Bastian

2. Marginalised voices: zoömusicology through a participatory lens

Hollis Taylor

3. ‘Animal-computer interaction: a manifesto’ (2011) and sections from ‘Towards an animal-centred ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction’ (2016)

Clara Mancini

4. Transformations of time on ecological pilgrimage

Peter Reason

Part 2: Building (tentative) affinities

5. How we nose

Timothy Hodgetts and Hester

6. An apprenticeship in plant thinking

Hannah Pitt

7. Imagination and empathy – Eden3: Plein Air

Reiko Goto Collins and Timothy Martin Collins

8. Empowerment as skill: the role of affect in building new subjectivities

Anna Krzywoszynska

9. Shadows, undercurrents and the Aliveness Machines

Jon Pigott and Antony Lyons

Part 3: Cautions

10. Laboratory beagles and affective co-productions of knowledge

Eva Giraud and Gregory Hollin

11. Rethinking ethnobotany? a methodological reflection on human-plant research

Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head

12. Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning

Deirdre Heddon