Guilty of Loving You: A Multispecies Narrative. (December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Nordstrom, Susan Naomi; Nordstrom, Amelie; Nordstrom, Coonan
• Other Names: Carlson David Lee guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 26:Number 10(2020)
• Page Start: 1233
• Page End: 1240
• Publication Date: 2020-12
• Subjects: multispecies inquiry -- cats -- mourning -- narrative inquiry; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800418784321
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

We recognized the urgency of our shared multispecies inquiry, with the recent death of one of the cats, Amelie. In the intense singularity of death, we became very aware of how we tune and tend together—everyday practices in which humans (themselves animals) and animals live and perceive together—and how these practices shape our everyday lives. These practices are acts of multispecies survival in which we learn how to live and die together. We weave our multispecies living–dying together with the theories of Haraway and Rautio. Writing together as we disrupt the categories between humans and animals, human-centered philosophical concepts, and human-centered narrative inquiry. In so doing, we offer an evocative multispecies narrative that tells a different story, a becoming with multiple species in naturecultures.