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, possibilitiesMichelle Bastian, Owain Jones, Niamh Moore, Emma RoePart 1: Experiments in more-than-human participatory research1. Towards a more-than-human participatory researchMichelle Bastian2. Marginalised voices: zoömusicology through a participatory lensHollis Taylor3. ‘Animal-computer interaction: a manifesto’ (2011) and sections from ‘Towards an animal-centred ethics for Animal–Computer Interaction’ (2016) Clara Mancini4. Transformations of time on ecological pilgrimagePeter ReasonPart 2: Building (tentative) affinities5. How we nose Timothy Hodgetts and Hester6. An apprenticeship in plant thinkingHannah Pitt7. Imagination and empathy – Eden3: Plein AirReiko Goto Collins and Timothy Martin Collins8. Empowerment as skill: the role of affect in building new subjectivitiesAnna Krzywoszynska9. Shadows, undercurrents and the Aliveness MachinesJon Pigott and Antony LyonsPart 3: Cautions10. Laboratory beagles and affective co-productions of knowledgeEva Giraud and Gregory Hollin11. Rethinking ethnobotany? a methodological reflection on human-plant research Jennifer Atchison and Lesley Head12. Con-versing: listening, speaking, turning Deirdre Heddon

"...Valuable insights for researchers in the social sciences, biological sciences, or humanities which may benefit from the experimental and decentering work collected in this book even if the reader engages with the more-than-human world only at a tangential level in their own research... With its wide range of perspectives and its conversely tight dialogical structure drawing largely from participants in shared workshops and panels, this edited collection offers a range of intersecting provocations about the potential for MtH-PR. It operates as an important intervention that will be useful, or at least de-centering, for social scientists and humanities scholars, particularly those working in environmental or STS disciplines." Matt Comi, Agriculture and Human Values (2019) 36:907–908