Women following fish in a more-than-human world |
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Authors: | Elspeth Probyn |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, The University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW, Australia;2. Hawke Research Institute, The University of South Australia, Adelaide, SA, Australia |
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Abstract: | Drawing on ethnographic and interview research conducted in Scotland, South Australia and New South Wales, Australia, I attempt to frame the cultural, social and geographical networks created by the people who follow fish (primarily commercial fishers). My account is constructed through a ‘self-conscious storying’ (Whatmore 2008) deployed by geographers working in a more-than-human perspective. Although I find much to inspire from this approach, throughout this article the question that nags at me is how to account for women within a materialist more-than-human framework, and how to articulate a feminist politics within this epistemological and methodological space. I try to avoid admonitions about what should be done and to advance or to model an embodied glimpse of what such a politics might be. |
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Keywords: | more-than-human following migration geographical movements embodied ethnography |
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