Descrizione del progetto
Collaborazione con comunicatori animali e animali per sviluppare metodi dialogici multispecie
Il progetto ANICOM, finanziato dal CER, collabora con esperti di comunicazione animale e varie specie animali in quattro continenti per sviluppare nuovi approcci multispecie. Esplora la comunicazione intuitiva interspecie (IIC), una tecnica per ottenere conversazioni dettagliate e bidirezionali con animali non umani. Finora, la crescente presenza di comunicatori animali professionisti in tutto il mondo e le conoscenze indigene sull’argomento sono state ignorate, in quanto non in linea con i consolidati sistemi cartesiani. ANICOM analizza l’intersezione tra nuovo materialismo, postumanesimo, studi indigeni e sistemi di conoscenze con la biosemiotica e la cognizione animale. Considerando gli animali non umani come partecipanti alla ricerca a pieno titolo, il progetto si propone di stabilire una base per i metodi dialogici multispecie (DMM), uno schema transdisciplinare per coinvolgere le prospettive, le esperienze e le conoscenze degli animali nel mondo accademico.
Obiettivo
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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Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.1 - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme
Argomento(i)
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(si apre in una nuova finestra) ERC-2023-COG
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4000 Liege
Belgio