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Affective, Embodied Empathetic Ruptions at the Posthuman Summer Lab

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  Affective, Embodied Empathetic Ruptions at the Posthuman Summer Lab I acknowledge the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation, the Traditional Custodians of the lands on which I learned the following. I pay my respects to their Elders, past and present, and recognise their ongoing connection to Country, culture, and knowledge. I also acknowledge that sovereignty was never ceded. In February 2025 I had the pleasure of attending a Posthuman Summer Lab in Melbourne, Australia. The Lab’s purpose was to engage participants in Indigenous/Posthuman knowledges to weave into their work. My time there ended up being an exploration of what it means to engage with affective, embodied empathy in a world shaped by colonial histories, deep ecological knowledges, stories passed down through generations and more-than-human entanglements. By affective, embodied empathy I mean it is relational, interconnected and grounds empathy in the lived, material experiences of ...
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Who am I to conduct research?

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One of the most useful parts of my PhD journey was when my viva examiners asked me to write a positionality statement as part of my minor corrections. This really helped me to understand  why I am drawn to particular emergences within the research . Here is what I wrote: 
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Introducing my fellowship and research

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This blog is going to be used to give an insight into my post-doctoral fellowship journey as I have been lucky enough to secure a fellowship from the ESRC for the next two years (Part-time).  My research argues for a reconceptualisation of empathy as affective and embodied that encompasses both human and more-than-human entities, essential for fostering ethical global responsibility. In the context of the Anthropocene, I assert that empathy is central to global responsibility acting as a catalyst for transformative change. By critiquing traditional notions of empathy that focus solely on human perspectives, I highlight the necessity of a relational understanding that recognises the interconnectedness of all life forms. I then argue that the way to do this is to attempt to move towards understanding empathy as affective rather than as a combination of cognition and affect to illustrate the need for a non-hierarchical approach to empathy that incorporates the more-than-human. I then ...
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