Two Women Walking Along the Emergent Edge

Jane Speedy is Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol, UK, a fine artist and writer whose work develops artful, collaborative qualitative inquiry across writing, painting, and research practice.Bronwyn Davies is an independent scholar affiliated with the University of Melbourne, Australia, and Western Sydney University, Australia, known for experimental, collaborative research shaped by literary and visual arts and poststructuralist and new materialist thought.

• Prologue: Writing and artmaking that responds to, and emerges within, post-qualitative thinking/writing/creating/living, in the context of climate change. Part 1: Creative, relational entanglement. 1. A creative relational entanglement of ideas, beginning with the places we arrive, both singly and together. 2. Normativity, an exploration of the power of the existing, taken-for-granted discourses that are mobilized both to keep the world the same and to re-make that world. 3. Human exceptionalism, or becoming of this world, of animals, rivers, and forests. 4. Getting lost, turning and re-turning, yearning for the bright sound of wind in the leaves. 5. Listening to birds, the alarming explosion of invading species. 6. Revisiting old age and death, end-of-life strategies in a world obsessed with killing, and re-turning to the deaths of our mothers. 7. Sanity, madness, and the family, life’s entanglement in the suicides of loved ones. Part 2: Autoethnographic ponderings and connectedness to land. 8. Land worlding, what we were to the land, and the land to us. 9. Connecting underlands and communities, camping in old south Wales and living in the wild. 10. Love and loss, letters and poems and memories of Martins, communities, and heteronormativity. 11. Response-ability to each other and the earth, memory and the power of stories to fire imagination on the one hand and set a moral compass on the other. Part 3: Oceans, climates, and the shape of things, species, and matters yet to come. 12. Geologic thinking and deep, deep times, human times scratching at the surface. 13. The pond-weed library at the end of time, Golda takes us down through the centuries of silt to find our way to re-wilding the earth.