Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines

Amelia Walker; Debra Wain; Ali Black; Elena Spasovska

doi:10.1080/14790726.2022.2050265

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Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines

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Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines

Amelia Walker, Debra Wain, Ali Black and Elena Spasovska

New Writing, Vol.20(2), pp.167-177

2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2050265

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collective writing

collaborative research

creative-critical research

climate change

activism through the arts

This paper is a collaborative reflection by four academic women using our creative writings about oceans and shorelines to think and reflect. We write from discrete locations along the Southern and Eastern coastlines of the invaded continent contemporarily known as Australia. Our methodology incorporates walking and creative writing. This walking-writing methodology has connected us to entangled feelings and lived experiences, including our embodied relationships with the ocean, our work in academia, and our rising levels of anxiety as climate change and related environmental crises coincide with our re-membering of oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath. To illustrate our re-membering, we intersperse fragments from our creative writing with reflective discussion. The social, environmental and political chaos surrounding us seeps into our processes, highlighting how neoliberal ideologies influence our inability to dis/connect, harming both human and beyond-human life. Through walking-writing, we seek to remember what we are losing and to imagine alternative futures.

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Title: Re-membering oceans, bodies, rhythms and breath: a collective reflection on life/work as we walk-write from different shorelines
Authors: Amelia Walker (Author) - University of South Australia
Debra Wain (Author)
Ali Black (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast
Elena Spasovska (Author) - University of South Australia
Publication details: New Writing, Vol.20(2), pp.167-177
Publisher: Routledge
Date published: 2023
DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2022.2050265
ISSN: 1943-3107; 1479-0726
Copyright note: Copyright © 2022 Routledge. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in New Writing on 01/03/2022, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14790726.2022.2050265.
Organisation Unit: Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre; School of Education and Tertiary Access
Language: English
Record Identifier: 99620308902621
Output Type: Journal article

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