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. 2022 Feb 8;8(2):555-585.
doi: 10.1080/2373566X.2021.2016467. eCollection 2022.

Sharing the Field: Reflections of More-Than-Human Field/work Encounters

Natalie Marr  1 , Mirjami Lantto  1 , Maia Larsen  1 , Kate Judith  2 , Sage Brice  3 , Jessica Phoenix  4 , Catherine Oliver  5 , Olivia Mason  6 , Sarah Thomas  1
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Sharing the Field: Reflections of More-Than-Human Field/work Encounters

Natalie Marr et al. GeoHumanities. .

Abstract
in English, Chinese, Spanish

The "field" has long been contested as spatially and temporally bounded. Feminist epistemologies have re-imagined and engaged field/work as shared, messy and co-constitutive, while critical more-than-human methodologies in the transdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities are further expanding our understanding of who and what counts in the production of knowledge in the field. This compendium article orbits around a collective concern for the sharedness of bodily and planetary ecologies through field/work. It brings together cross-disciplinary accounts of field encounters that critically explore what it feels like to do this work and what it entails. With a focus on practice and process, the six contributing authors-researchers, artists, practitioners, writers-consider how nonhumans share in our research, shaping the work we do, the questions we ask and the responses we craft. Together, they offer thoughtful provocations on the troubling and promising ways in which human and non-human bodies become unsettled and rearranged through field encounters.

“实地”在空间和时间上一直都有争议。女权主义认识论将实地&#考察&#重新假想为共享、混乱和共同构成。在跨学科的环境人文学领域中&#，批判性的超人类方法论&#，进一步拓展了我们对谁和什么在知识生产中发挥作用的理解。该概要文章围绕了一个共同关注点—基于实地&#（考察&#）的共享式身体生态和地球生态。它汇集了对实地接触的跨学科描述&#，批判性地探索了从事这项工作的感受和所需要做的工作。本文注重实践和过程&#，六位作者&#（研究人员、艺术家、实践人员、作家&#）考虑了各种非人类如何在研究中进行共享、如何塑造了我们的工作、问题和回应。一些令人不安但有希望的方式&#，能使得人类和非人类在实地接触中变得不稳定或进行重组&#，作者对这些方式提出了深思熟虑的挑战。.

Desde hace mucho tiempo se cuestiona el “campo” como concepto delimitado espacial y temporalmente. Las epistemologías feministas han re-imaginado y comprometido el trabajo de campo como algo compartido, desordenado y co-constitutivo, en tanto que las metodologías críticas más-que-humanas en el campo transdisciplinario de las humanidades ambientales están ampliando aún más nuestro entendimiento sobre quién y qué cuenta en la producción de conocimiento en el campo. Este artículo de compendio gira alrededor de una preocupación colectiva de compartir las ecologías corporales y planetarias a través del trabajo de campo. El artículo reúne los relatos interdisciplinarios de encuentros en el campo que exploran críticamente lo que se siente al ejecutar este trabajo y lo que éste implica. Enfocándose en la práctica y en el proceso, los seis autores que colaboran ––investigadores, artistas, profesionales, escritores–– consideran cómo los no humanos comparten en nuestra investigación, dándole forma al trabajo que hacemos, a las preguntas que formulamos y a las respuestas que conseguimos. Juntos, ellos ofrecen reflexivas provocaciones sobre las formas inquietantes y promisoras en las que los cuerpos humanos y no humanos se desestabilizan y se reorganizan a través de encuentros en el campo.

Keywords: encounter; feminist epistemologies; fieldwork; knowledge practices; multispecies relations.

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Figures

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“These cranes are actually composites” (Field journal, Huleh Valley, 14 January 2017). Image by Sage Brice.
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Composite birds and leg configurations (Field journal, Huleh Valley, 27 February 2017). Image by Sage Brice.
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Shot badger in a double bag ready for disposal. Photo by Jessica Phoenix.
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Badgers in the wild. Photo by Jessica Phoenix.
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A badger carcass in a collection kit. Photo by Jessica Phoenix.
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A badger carcass after postmortem. Photo by Jessica Phoenix.
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Sign in Petra warning of animal cruelty. Photo by Olivia Mason.
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Walkers on the climb to Al-Der. Photo by Olivia Mason.
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Mahmoud and William Shakespeare just outside Petra. Photo by Olivia Mason.
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Still from video, taken from my living room window in the early stages of the flood. Link: https://youtu.be/FPyUWK_r8S4 Image by Sarah Thomas.
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The fell in drier weather. Photo by Sarah Thomas.
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An aqueous vocabulary. Image by Sarah Thomas.
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Journal entry. Image by Sarah Thomas.
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Walking performance of Rainfall, Fell. Photo by David Borthwick.
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