Descripción del proyecto
Colaboración con comunicadores y animales para desarrollar métodos dialógicos multiespecies
El equipo del proyecto ANICOM, financiado por el Consejo Europeo de Investigación, colabora con expertos en comunicación animal y diversas especies animales de cuatro continentes para desarrollar novedosos métodos multiespecies. Explora la comunicación intuitiva interespecies, una técnica para lograr conversaciones detalladas y bidireccionales con animales no humanos. Hasta ahora, la creciente presencia de comunicadores profesionales de animales en todo el mundo, así como los conocimientos indígenas sobre el tema, han sido ignorados, porque no encajan en los marcos cartesianos establecidos. El equipo de ANICOM explora la intersección del nuevo materialismo, el poshumanismo, los estudios indígenas y los sistemas de conocimiento con la biosemiótica y la cognición animal. El equipo del proyecto, que considera a los animales no humanos como participantes de pleno derecho en la investigación, pretende sentar las bases de los métodos dialógicos multiespecies, un esquema transdisciplinar para incorporar las perspectivas, experiencias y conocimientos de los animales en el mundo académico.
Objetivo
As the social in social sciences is rethought beyond the human, multispecies research across disciplines increasingly asks how to speak with and for non-human others. I pose that intuitive interspecies communication (IIC), a strategy practiced by successful animal communicators to engage in explicit, detailed, two-way communication with non-human animals, holds uncharted resources for doing research with rather than on animals. Research on IIC has been curtailed to specific domains and mythologized, while the worldwide boom in professional animal communicators has been ignored. ANICOMs unique engagement with animal communicators practical strategies for relating across nature/culture and mind/body dichotomies is ground-breaking in the often largely theoretical discussions of the ontological and species turns. It simultaneously unsettles continued divides between humans and animals as well as dominant and subjugated ways of knowing. The project triangulates participant observation, Q method, interviews and audio-visual methods (including video-diaries and video-elicitations) with natural science approaches, to collaboratively work with six expert animal communicators and a variety of animals in Europe and Africa. It addresses unexplored possibilities for cross-fertilization between new materialism and posthumanism on the one hand, and Indigenous studies and knowledge systems on the other, while relying on the latest insights in biosemiotics and animal cognition. It thus develops transdisciplinary innovations that include non-human animals as full research participants, while achieving a deeper reflexivity on the limitations of humans thinking animals outside the human-animal relationship. Its ultimate objective is to establish the resources and foundation for dialogic multispecies methods (DMM), a dynamic set of conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches and tools to engage with the views, experiences and knowledges of non-human animals in academia.
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Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-ERC - HORIZON ERC GrantsInstitución de acogida
4000 Liege
Bélgica