Feminist Ethics, the Environment, and Vital Respondings (original) (raw)

New femininities in digital, physical and sporting cultures, 2020

Abstract

In this chapter, we explore the potential of using new materialisms to think about the environment from a non-anthropocentric view. We begin this chapter by summarizing some of the main contributions from Indigenous scholarship, environmental humanities, and ecofeminism, before highlighting the ways in which new materialisms mirror, and in some cases, extend these lines of thought. While there are various strands of thought within new materialisms, herein we focus on the important contributions of Donna Haraway, Rosi Braidotti, and Stacy Alaimo who have been particularly instrumental in advancing our thinking about human-environment relations. This is followed by a more specific review of research on sport and the environment, including recent new materialist-inspired approaches. The second half of this chapter explores the challenges of representing nature, and the ethics of voice, in new materialisms. Taking inspiration from those who are advancing performative and postpresentational approaches, we then share insights into our collaborative and creative writing practices during the Australian bushfires and COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. In offering two pieces from our collaborative ‘poetic inquiry’, we attempt to show (rather than tell) our living and moving bodies as always entangled with the environment. We conclude with some reflections on how such new materialist and postqualitative approaches enabled new noticings, vital respondings, and thus feminist ethics and response-abilities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFRAGwH8UOY&list=PLdbxSLlj0ri04cOHxK37TfaQg0IAv6Znf&index=7

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