Honourable Mention, ICQI 2022 Outstanding Qualitative Book Award
Entanglement in the World's Becoming and the Doing of New Materialist
Inquiry explores new materialist concepts and the ways in which they
provoke an opening up of thought about being human, and about being
more-than-human. The more-than-human refers, here, to the world that we
are of - a world that includes humans, who are emergent and permeable,
and all of the animal and earth others they intra-act with. It explores
how we affect those others and are affected.
This book engages intimately in encounters of various kinds, some drawn
from the author's everyday life, some from the research projects she has
engaged in over several decades, and some from others' research. It
works at the interface of living- and writing-as-inquiry, delving into
the rich seam of conceptual possibilities opened up by Deleuze and
Guattari, and Barad, and by new materialist inquiry more broadly. It
brings not just words to the task, but also art, photopraphs, movement,
memories, bodies, sound, touch, things.
It delves into the ways in which the entangled dynamics of social,
material and semiotic flows and forces make up the diffractive movements
through which life emerges, assembles itself, and endures. New
materialist concepts, as they are explored here, offer new and emergent
approaches to life itself, and to ways in which we might research our
lives as they are intricately enfolded in the life of the earth.
