Less 'staying with the trouble' and more getting into trouble: (Hara)wayfaring myths as acts of activism

Claire Walsh

Abstract

less “staying with the trouble” and more getting into trouble
(Hara)wayfaring myths as acts of activism.

A child. A climate leader. A storyteller. A Professor Emerita.
A missing book.
Just how much trouble is there for getting into?

***

Attending Haraway, there is no steady ground. No political, theoretical, or logical reassurance into which uncertainty can dissipate.
I want you to act as if our house is on fire.
Instead, attending Haraway is to subvert uncertainty, go beyond its surfacing anxieties and respond from its depths with a figuring relationality, forming kin…
A book is a loaded gun in the house next door. Burn it.
Take the shot from the weapon.
… collective enunciation, world-making acts within the trouble.
You don't have to burn books, do you, if the world
starts to fill up with non-knowers?
Deepening into uncertainty’s wake these acts become open to mystery, provoking story-telling that delves into our response(ability) in the unfinished present.
And then I want you to act,
I want you to act as if you would in a crisis.
In an openness to unexpected approaches, navigate the mystery of the Anthropocenic self. Behold the child. The missing book. Harken the whispers of stories of worth. (Hara)wayfare a myth reenvisaging our response(ability) in the present moment.

***

An unexplained gap has appeared amongst the restricted books
and Mr Beatty, the school librarian, wants answers…

References
Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 452. London: HarperVoyager, 2013.
Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble. Durham: Duke University Press, 2016.
Thunberg, Greta. “Our House is on Fire”. World Economic Forum (January, 2019). Accessed: March 6, 2024.https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/our-house-is-on-fire-16-year-old-greta-thunberg-speaks-truth-to-power/.

Original language	English
Publication status	Published - 17 Apr 2024
Event	AiPH Online Doctoral Conference: Imagining different futures: adventures in posthuman doctoral research and supervision - University of Plymouth, Plymouth, United Kingdom Duration: 17 Apr 2024 → 17 Apr 2024 https://adventuresinposthum.wordpress.com/blog/

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Conference	AiPH Online Doctoral Conference
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Plymouth
Period	17/04/24 → 17/04/24
Internet address	https://adventuresinposthum.wordpress.com/blog/

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth
SDG 15 Life on Land

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Multidisciplinary
Education

Keywords

postqualitative enquiry
activism
nonviolence
literary education
experimental methodologies
theory and philosophy
qualitative research
research methodology
storying
curriculum

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