Abstract
Currently, researchers across all fields are trying to remain level-headed and critical while being exposed to the overwhelming amount of data supporting the impending doom scenarios that the planet and all who inhabit it on different levels are going to face sooner or later.
There is a growing body of research that is formed around–and based on–collaboration, overcoming boundaries, merging and synthesis of disciplines. Academics are looking for the best possible combinations of methodological interventions which could become, if not fully applicable, then at least helpful in devising solutions and strategies for survival and healing in the global environmental crisis.
This panel on the methods and methodological musings is an example of such exploratory and experimental takes. The researchers on the panel will share their paths towards combining, extending and shifting their research methods. Through the discussion, the presenters of the panel are looking for new methodological possibilities for facing the unknown known.
Agnese Bankovska will share her ethnographic fieldwork experience and her experiments with drawing/illustration methods looking at ethics of care in multispecies relations in urban gardens in Finland. Karolina Lukasik will talk about applying ecological observations used by biologists and ecologists to animal studies. Heta Lähdesmaki will present her research in animal history involving physical objects–bird-feeding stations.
This panel will be chaired by Agnese Bankovska, and is part of the symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities”.
Papers
- Agnese Bankovska, University of Helsinki, "Illustrating care: drawing as a method in researching multispecies care in urban gardens."
- Heta Lähdesmaki, University of Helsinki, "Bird table as a multispecies technology. Analysing historical and present-day bird feeders."
- Karolina Lukasik, University of Helsinki, "Biology meets humanities: the use of ecological observation in studying non-human actors in urban allotment gardens."
About the Symposium
As the Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities (NoRS-EH) starts its 5th year, the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities (OSEH) is organizing a symposium on “Transdisciplinary in the Environmental Humanities” on 6 and 7 September 2023 to highlight and celebrate the innovative environmental humanities research happening in Norway and neighboring Scandinavian countries, especially by early career researchers. Read more about the programme for the symposium here.