Performing and interpreting scalarity
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Paper/Presentation Title | Performing and interpreting scalarity |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | |
Author | Judith, Kate |
Year | 2021 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://beyond-human-scales.net/ |
Conference/Event | Nga tohu o te huarere: Conversations Beyond Human Scales: 8th ASLEC-ANZ Conference Aotearoa 2021 |
Event Details | Nga tohu o te huarere: Conversations Beyond Human Scales: 8th ASLEC-ANZ Conference Aotearoa 2021 Event Date 23 to end of 26 Nov 2021 Event Location Wellington, New Zealand |
Abstract | In her book, Friction, Anna Tsing writes: 'scale is not just a neutral frame for viewing the world; scale must be brought into being: proposed, practiced, and evaded, as well as taken for granted. Scales are claimed and contested in cultural and political projects.' This paper interprets Tsing’s comments into a more-than-human context to explore how scale is performed and contested within an urban estuarine ecology. My interest is to consider the processes through which the categories of estuarine geography – the times, the distinct bodies, species, and relationships – perform scales – and in turn how the work of interpretation across scales maintains and refigures the categories of the estuary. |
Keywords | scale, material semiotics, ecocriticism |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 500317. Philosophy of science (excl. history and philosophy of specific fields) |
500304. Environmental philosophy | |
Byline Affiliations | USQ College |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
https://research.usq.edu.au/item/q6yvz/performing-and-interpreting-scalarity
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