Listening to place, practising relationality: Embodying six emergent protocols for collaborative relational geographies

There is increasing interest within geography around the composition and interdependence of human and environmental dynamics and relational onto-epistemologies. Such interest prompts us to consider questions around respect, power and collaboration, and how we might enact relations across sometimes v...

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Published inEmotion, space and society Vol. 50; p. 101000
Main Authors Kanngieser, A.M., Soares, Filipa, Rubis, June, Sullivan, Corrinne T., Graham, Marnie, Williams, Miriam, Palis, Joseph, Tynan, Lauren, Daley, Lara, Blacklock, Fabri, Greenhough, Beth, Suchet-Pearson, Sandie, Wright, Sarah, Lloyd, Kate, Marshall, Uncle Bud
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2024
Subjects
Discomfort
Emplacement
Grief
Listening
Protocols
Relationality
Research collaboration
Weaving
Protocols
Grief
Discomfort
Listening
Relationality
Emplacement
Weaving
Research collaboration
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Summary:There is increasing interest within geography around the composition and interdependence of human and environmental dynamics and relational onto-epistemologies. Such interest prompts us to consider questions around respect, power and collaboration, and how we might enact relations across sometimes vast and incommensurable differences as academics and as/with community members. In this paper, we document six protocols which emerged within the Not Lone Wolf network to enable this careful work: Emplacement, Listening, Weaving, Discomfort, Grieving, and Resting. These protocols are material practices that are mindful of the diversity of stakes, opinions and positionalities we hold, and which enable us to navigate through our relations. This paper argues for the importance of attending to such protocols which can shape the doing(s) of relational geographies. It offers possible orientations for geographers and social scientists to experiment with while doing relational geographies. •Geographers want to work relationally to push against individualism and neo-liberal work.•This requires reorientating collective methods for collaboration.•Six protocols identified to engage in collective practice, with reference to Indigenous philosophies.•Must focus on cultivating relationships to place.
ISSN:1755-4586
1878-0040
DOI:10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101000