Introduction: More-than-human participatory research: Contexts, challenges, possibilities (original) (raw)

This collection arises from an AHRC-funded research project called In Conversation with…: codesign with more-than-human communities that ran in 2013, as well as a series of panels held at the RGS-IBG International Conference in 2014 on the Co-Production of knowledge with non-humans. ln both cases we sought to explore the notion of a 'more-thanhuman participatory research'. Yet to say 'more-than-human participatory research' seems like too much of a mouthful. These are words that do not roll easily off the tongue, but instead suggest some kind of cacophony, some noisy dissonance. These are words that seem like they should not really sit beside each other, words that do not quite make sense. Nonetheless, our aim in this collection, which we will explain further below, is precisely to explore the potential of bringing together the growing field of 'more than-human research' (MtHR) with the more established practices of 'participatory research' (PR). In bringing these seemingly disparate fields together, we want to point to more entwined histories than initially might seem obvious, and at the same time, to also open up a series of new questions: What might it mean to invite 'the morethan-human' to be an active participant, and even partner, in research? How are prevailing ways of conceiving research in terms of issues of knowledge, ethics, consent and anonymity challenged and transformed

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