Posthuman COV-llaboration: Enfleshing Encounters of Connectedness Through Imaging Memory. (29th September 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Pillay, Daisy; Charteris, Jennifer; Nye, Adele; Foulkes, Ruth
• Is Part Of: International journal of qualitative methods. Volume 20(2021)
• Publication Date: 2021-09-29
• Subjects: assemblage -- enfleshment -- affect flows -- posthumanism -- interspecies relationships; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Philosophy -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Statistical methods -- Periodicals; Qualitative Research -- Periodicals; Qualitative research; Social sciences -- Philosophy; Social sciences -- Research; Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/16094069211050162
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1609-4069

Abstract

Caught up in the "COVID moment and distancing-isolation, " the authors came together through a Collective Memory Work initiative to inquire into what solidarity during the COVID moment meant to each of them and collectively assemble understandings about this phenomenon. Critical relationships, methods, and more-than-human relationalities are shared in this article that combined to enliven the collaboration. Grounded in Collective Memory Work and widened by arts-based approaches, the academics reflexively explored critical encounters, probing into how they move(d) in/through work–home spaces during the isolation and uncertainties experienced during the pandemic. This article serves as a methodological unpacking of our arts-based research process that used Zoom discussions, memory writing, individual artmaking, and sharing stories. More-than-human capacities provide a pathway to negotiate trauma, fears, loneliness, and isolation that affectively circulate through the COVID moment.