Transforming epistemological disconnection from the more-than-human world: (inter)nodes of ecologically attuned ways of knowing

Erzsébet Strausz*

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Abstract (may include machine translation)

Drawing out resonances across art-based practice and critical imaginations in the discipline, this paper maps out conceptual, creative and experiential resources for re-rooting International Relations for the climate and the needs of the more-than-human world. I trace what I describe as ecologically attuned ways of knowing along two main inspirations: L. H. M. Ling’s Imagining World Politics and the 7000 HUMANS participatory initiative designed by Shelley Sacks. Writing with a rhizomatic sensibility and foregrounding ways of knowing that may emerge in and through encounters with trees, I explore imaginative possibilities for transforming epistemological disconnection from vegetal life into embodied, integrative, life-enhancing modes of relating to both ourselves and the more-than-human world.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)407-426
Number of pages20
JournalInternational Relations
Volume38
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 9 Aug 2024

Keywords

  • 7000 HUMANS
  • Connective Practice Approach
  • International Relations Theory
  • art-based practice
  • creative research methods
  • ecologically attuned ways of knowing
  • ecology
  • epistemology
  • forests
  • worldism

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