R Hohti
Biographic Data
| ID | 19631 |
|---|---|
| NAME | R Hohti |
| GIVEN NAMES | R |
| FAMILY NAME | Hohti |
| SIGNATURE | HOHTI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Helsinki |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6731-589X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 52 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Treks of a Natureculture Mobile Research Station: The Peculiar Atmospheres of “Making Ethics”
By retelling stories of peculiar atmospheres during treks with our natureculture research station, we engage with becoming response-able while making ethics during research practice. Entangling feminist philosophies of agential realism by Karen Barad and nomadic ethics by Rosi Braidotti with multispecies methodologies, we illuminate how peculiar atmospheres are noticeable moments during which ethicality can be felt. This study highlights how thro…
Human/animal atmospheres: Attuning to ontologies with young people in the natural history museum and the zoo
Human-induced environmental destruction introduces shifts in our understanding of human-nature relations, while it also is felt as a crisis of affects and emotion. This research explores the interplay between ontology and affect by focusing on more-than-human atmospheres. We invited groups of children and young people to join our research on changing nature relations in a natural history museum and a zoo. Combining elements drawn from atmospheric…
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World: A New Imperative for Childhood Studies
All bodies—child, animal, plant—are bodies sustained by life processes. Human as well as animal and plant bodies coexist with a multiplicity of microbial life. As symbiotic partners, human bodies are ecosystems of microbial life in a microbial world. In this way, microbes cannot simply be seen as disease-causing and human bodies as hosts of human-only life. Simplistic notions of the child as a unitary and social subject and the image of the agent…
Kun ei voi hengittää: Ilmapiiri näkökulmana nuorten ja muun luonnon välisiin suhteisiin ympäristökriisissä
Tutkimme artikkelissa nuoruutta ympäristökriisien ilmapiirissä keskittyen erityisesti muutoksessa olevaan ihmisen ja muun luonnon suhteeseen. Ilmapiiri on meille sekä tutkimuskohde että affektiivisen ja ontologisen virittymisen metodi. Esittelemme tutkimusta, jota olemme tehneet luonnontieteellisessä museossa yhdessä nuorten kanssa. Erittelemme ihmisen ja muunlajisten välisiä rajanvetoja, elämän, kuoleman ja eloisuuden teemoja sekä nuorten tuleva…
This place cannot be tidied up!’ Stigmatisation, rats, and place-making in a multispecies city
A review of “ Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries ” - D. Rousell, & A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (2022). Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries. NY, OX: Routledge
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Composting Storytelling: An Approach for Critical (Multispecies) Ethnography
Stories produce bodies that produce stories in an endless intra-active metabolic continuum. Stories do not only represent material worlds but also shape and make new worlds. Starting from these premises, this article develops “composting storytelling,” a methodological approach to heterogeneous, open-ended, small stories interwoven with everyday interaction. Drawing on years-long ethnographic work in a school greenhouse, and multispecies and crit…
Entangling with the landscape: A methodological walking art experiment
This paper presents a walking art experiment called 'Line Walk' aimed at attuning to more-than-human landscapes. The researchers wanted to expand the methodological repertoires for engaging with contemporary semi-urban and urban living environments. A second goal was to increase attentiveness to multispecies relationality and thus challenge uncritically normative notions of nature in environmental educational research. The experiment demonstrates…
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Childhoods and Time: A Collective Exploration
This collective piece explores the philosophical, ontological, and epistemic potentials of analyzing the relations between childhood and time, proposing thought experiments and fieldwork analyses that release childhood from a linear temporality toward (modern) adulthood. Each experiment originating from the authors’ distinct scholarly positionings fractures “modern childhood” and its civilization project, built from the hegemony of linear, sequen…
Multiple worlds and strange objects: Environmental education research as an additive practice
The paper offers three examples of passionate immersion with strange objects and working with peculiar multispecies assemblages, such as the assemblage of a dove called Romeo and the technology to humidify a greenhouse called ‘Princess’, or the experiment of orienteering in forests for years, accounting for slips, scratches and tumbles as being taught by the forest — and prioritising these over the more commonplace educational narratives. The pap…
Insect-Thinking as Resistance to Education’s Human Exceptionalism: Relationality and Cuts in More-Than-Human Childhoods
This article discusses the “more-than-human” turn in qualitative inquiry and education, engaging with the critiques presented by philosophers, animal studies scholars, and educational scholars toward the “too easy” adoption of an inclusive relational ontology. Based on Barad’s concept of re-turning, the article develops a methodology of insect-thinking, which folds memories as well as scientific and “low theoretical” sources in and out the analys…
Atmospheres of the Anthropocene. Sensing and rerouting dis/inheritances in a university museum with young people
This paper follows young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in the context of the environmental and ontological crises of the epoch named the Anthropocene. It discusses a research project in which young people were invited to work critically and creatively with a British university museum to explore its storerooms and exhibits. The ethnographic and artistic engagements led to the curation of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ within the museum itself…
Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical Interventions With Young People in a University Museum
In this article, we discuss a series of artistic interventions in a university museum co-created by young people, researchers, and museum curators. We focus on the co-development of techniques for disrupting and re-imagining museological spaces and times, while exploring young people's shifting sense of inheritance in relation to the 'Anthropocene' as a particular figuration of the current epoch. Drawing together an eclectic range of sources at t…
Touching is Worlding: From Caring Hands to World-Making Dances in Multispecies Childhoods
In this article we analyze the phenomenon of touch to discuss care and knowing within child-animal relations. The empirical part was conducted as a multispecies ethnography in a comprehensive school with an educational zoo built in a huge greenhouse. Storytelling, Despret’s idea of “versions,” and insights drawn from dance are used to take a close look at touching events between the research participants. From observations of caring hands and the…
Pets that Have ‘Something Inside: The Material Politics of in/Animacy and Queer Kin within the Childhood Menagerie
In this paper, we seek to unsettle and extend understandings of what constitutes the contemporary family in Western minority world society and consider the material politics that follow from such a reconceptualization. We do this by offering a situated exploration into the caring relations and shared biographies that routinely evolve between children, other than human animals and toys within the family home. An emergent field of scholarship (Hoht…
The greenhouse effect: Multispecies childhood and non-innocent relations of care
This article examines the relations between human children and other than human animals in a multispecies ethnographic study conducted in an unofficial educational zoo established in a greenhouse in a lower secondary school. The specific focus is on the practices in which the students become responsible carers of animals. The analysis employs the theory of care (de la Bellacasa) and a storytelling approach (Haraway) to develop the concept of mult…
Reconfiguring urban environmental education with ‘shitgull’ and a ‘shop’
The worry over urban children having lost their connection to nature is most often addressed with either initiatives of reinserting the ‘child back to nature’ or with evidence aiming to prove that the worry is unfounded to begin with. Neither approach furthers our understanding of child–nature relations as continuing transformation of both ‘child’ (‘human’) and ‘nature’. The objective of this paper is to redirect attention from evaluating connect…
Now — and Now — and Now: Time, Space and the Material Entanglements of the Classroom
This study examines time and children in the classroom based on free‐flowing observations written in class by 10‐year‐old pupils. The concept of e ntanglement is activated to consider time together with space and matter and explore the dynamics in which these elements interact. The analysis unsettles the notion of time as a separate, ‘outside’ parameter: rather than examining children in time, this viewpoint enables us to see children as being or…
Time, things, teacher, pupil: Engaging with what matters
This article presents an empirical study of everyday life in school and a methodological attempt to emphasise children’s views and to find ways other than representation to analyse them. The empirical portion took place in a Finnish elementary school in which the author was the class teacher. The ten-year-olds in the class engaged in an unstructured classroom diary activity in which they freely wrote their observations, thoughts and stories. The …
Children writing ethnography: Children's perspectives and nomadic thinking in researching school classrooms
This article makes a connection between narrative ethnography, childhood studies and new materialist theories in studying children's perspective on school. It presents 'children writing ethnography' as an approach based on complexity and involving participatory research. The question of 'what is happening in the classroom' is explored through writings produced in class by 10-year olds. The 'messy' ethnographic data are examined within the framewo…
Lollipop stories: Listening to children's voices in the classroom and narrative ethnographical research
This article offers a methodological contribution to the concept of children's voices and the ways of listening to them. Children's voices are studied in a narrative ethnographical research project in a school classroom. The authors follow children's voices from the level of classroom observation to an analysis on narrative data produced by the Storycrafting method and finally to a more reflexive analysis. By defining three interrelated analytica…
The greenhouse effect: Multispecies childhood and non-innocent relations of care
This article examines the relations between human children and other than human animals in a multispecies ethnographic study conducted in an unofficial educational zoo established in a greenhouse in a lower secondary school. The specific focus is on the practices in which the students become responsible carers of animals. The analysis employs the theory of care (de la Bellacasa) and a storytelling approach (Haraway) to develop the concept of mult…
Reconfiguring urban environmental education with ‘shitgull’ and a ‘shop’
The worry over urban children having lost their connection to nature is most often addressed with either initiatives of reinserting the ‘child back to nature’ or with evidence aiming to prove that the worry is unfounded to begin with. Neither approach furthers our understanding of child–nature relations as continuing transformation of both ‘child’ (‘human’) and ‘nature’. The objective of this paper is to redirect attention from evaluating connect…
Time, things, teacher, pupil: Engaging with what matters
This article presents an empirical study of everyday life in school and a methodological attempt to emphasise children’s views and to find ways other than representation to analyse them. The empirical portion took place in a Finnish elementary school in which the author was the class teacher. The ten-year-olds in the class engaged in an unstructured classroom diary activity in which they freely wrote their observations, thoughts and stories. The …
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical Interventions With Young People in a University Museum
In this article, we discuss a series of artistic interventions in a university museum co-created by young people, researchers, and museum curators. We focus on the co-development of techniques for disrupting and re-imagining museological spaces and times, while exploring young people's shifting sense of inheritance in relation to the 'Anthropocene' as a particular figuration of the current epoch. Drawing together an eclectic range of sources at t…
Children writing ethnography: Children's perspectives and nomadic thinking in researching school classrooms
This article makes a connection between narrative ethnography, childhood studies and new materialist theories in studying children's perspective on school. It presents 'children writing ethnography' as an approach based on complexity and involving participatory research. The question of 'what is happening in the classroom' is explored through writings produced in class by 10-year olds. The 'messy' ethnographic data are examined within the framewo…
Lollipop stories: Listening to children's voices in the classroom and narrative ethnographical research
This article offers a methodological contribution to the concept of children's voices and the ways of listening to them. Children's voices are studied in a narrative ethnographical research project in a school classroom. The authors follow children's voices from the level of classroom observation to an analysis on narrative data produced by the Storycrafting method and finally to a more reflexive analysis. By defining three interrelated analytica…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Atmospheres of the Anthropocene. Sensing and rerouting dis/inheritances in a university museum with young people
This paper follows young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in the context of the environmental and ontological crises of the epoch named the Anthropocene. It discusses a research project in which young people were invited to work critically and creatively with a British university museum to explore its storerooms and exhibits. The ethnographic and artistic engagements led to the curation of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ within the museum itself…
Pets that Have ‘Something Inside: The Material Politics of in/Animacy and Queer Kin within the Childhood Menagerie
In this paper, we seek to unsettle and extend understandings of what constitutes the contemporary family in Western minority world society and consider the material politics that follow from such a reconceptualization. We do this by offering a situated exploration into the caring relations and shared biographies that routinely evolve between children, other than human animals and toys within the family home. An emergent field of scholarship (Hoht…
Entangling with the landscape: A methodological walking art experiment
This paper presents a walking art experiment called 'Line Walk' aimed at attuning to more-than-human landscapes. The researchers wanted to expand the methodological repertoires for engaging with contemporary semi-urban and urban living environments. A second goal was to increase attentiveness to multispecies relationality and thus challenge uncritically normative notions of nature in environmental educational research. The experiment demonstrates…
Lollipop stories: Listening to children's voices in the classroom and narrative ethnographical research
This article offers a methodological contribution to the concept of children's voices and the ways of listening to them. Children's voices are studied in a narrative ethnographical research project in a school classroom. The authors follow children's voices from the level of classroom observation to an analysis on narrative data produced by the Storycrafting method and finally to a more reflexive analysis. By defining three interrelated analytica…
Children writing ethnography: Children's perspectives and nomadic thinking in researching school classrooms
This article makes a connection between narrative ethnography, childhood studies and new materialist theories in studying children's perspective on school. It presents 'children writing ethnography' as an approach based on complexity and involving participatory research. The question of 'what is happening in the classroom' is explored through writings produced in class by 10-year olds. The 'messy' ethnographic data are examined within the framewo…
Now — and Now — and Now: Time, Space and the Material Entanglements of the Classroom
This study examines time and children in the classroom based on free‐flowing observations written in class by 10‐year‐old pupils. The concept of e ntanglement is activated to consider time together with space and matter and explore the dynamics in which these elements interact. The analysis unsettles the notion of time as a separate, ‘outside’ parameter: rather than examining children in time, this viewpoint enables us to see children as being or…
Time, things, teacher, pupil: Engaging with what matters
This article presents an empirical study of everyday life in school and a methodological attempt to emphasise children’s views and to find ways other than representation to analyse them. The empirical portion took place in a Finnish elementary school in which the author was the class teacher. The ten-year-olds in the class engaged in an unstructured classroom diary activity in which they freely wrote their observations, thoughts and stories. The …
Reconfiguring urban environmental education with ‘shitgull’ and a ‘shop’
The worry over urban children having lost their connection to nature is most often addressed with either initiatives of reinserting the ‘child back to nature’ or with evidence aiming to prove that the worry is unfounded to begin with. Neither approach furthers our understanding of child–nature relations as continuing transformation of both ‘child’ (‘human’) and ‘nature’. The objective of this paper is to redirect attention from evaluating connect…
The greenhouse effect: Multispecies childhood and non-innocent relations of care
This article examines the relations between human children and other than human animals in a multispecies ethnographic study conducted in an unofficial educational zoo established in a greenhouse in a lower secondary school. The specific focus is on the practices in which the students become responsible carers of animals. The analysis employs the theory of care (de la Bellacasa) and a storytelling approach (Haraway) to develop the concept of mult…
Touching is Worlding: From Caring Hands to World-Making Dances in Multispecies Childhoods
In this article we analyze the phenomenon of touch to discuss care and knowing within child-animal relations. The empirical part was conducted as a multispecies ethnography in a comprehensive school with an educational zoo built in a huge greenhouse. Storytelling, Despret’s idea of “versions,” and insights drawn from dance are used to take a close look at touching events between the research participants. From observations of caring hands and the…
Pets that Have ‘Something Inside: The Material Politics of in/Animacy and Queer Kin within the Childhood Menagerie
In this paper, we seek to unsettle and extend understandings of what constitutes the contemporary family in Western minority world society and consider the material politics that follow from such a reconceptualization. We do this by offering a situated exploration into the caring relations and shared biographies that routinely evolve between children, other than human animals and toys within the family home. An emergent field of scholarship (Hoht…
Atmospheres of the Anthropocene. Sensing and rerouting dis/inheritances in a university museum with young people
This paper follows young people’s shifting sense of inheritance in the context of the environmental and ontological crises of the epoch named the Anthropocene. It discusses a research project in which young people were invited to work critically and creatively with a British university museum to explore its storerooms and exhibits. The ethnographic and artistic engagements led to the curation of a ‘cabinet of curiosities’ within the museum itself…
Blots on the Anthropocene: Micropolitical Interventions With Young People in a University Museum
In this article, we discuss a series of artistic interventions in a university museum co-created by young people, researchers, and museum curators. We focus on the co-development of techniques for disrupting and re-imagining museological spaces and times, while exploring young people's shifting sense of inheritance in relation to the 'Anthropocene' as a particular figuration of the current epoch. Drawing together an eclectic range of sources at t…
Multiple worlds and strange objects: Environmental education research as an additive practice
The paper offers three examples of passionate immersion with strange objects and working with peculiar multispecies assemblages, such as the assemblage of a dove called Romeo and the technology to humidify a greenhouse called ‘Princess’, or the experiment of orienteering in forests for years, accounting for slips, scratches and tumbles as being taught by the forest — and prioritising these over the more commonplace educational narratives. The pap…
Insect-Thinking as Resistance to Education’s Human Exceptionalism: Relationality and Cuts in More-Than-Human Childhoods
This article discusses the “more-than-human” turn in qualitative inquiry and education, engaging with the critiques presented by philosophers, animal studies scholars, and educational scholars toward the “too easy” adoption of an inclusive relational ontology. Based on Barad’s concept of re-turning, the article develops a methodology of insect-thinking, which folds memories as well as scientific and “low theoretical” sources in and out the analys…
Childhoods and Time: A Collective Exploration
This collective piece explores the philosophical, ontological, and epistemic potentials of analyzing the relations between childhood and time, proposing thought experiments and fieldwork analyses that release childhood from a linear temporality toward (modern) adulthood. Each experiment originating from the authors’ distinct scholarly positionings fractures “modern childhood” and its civilization project, built from the hegemony of linear, sequen…
A review of “ Posthuman Research Playspaces: Climate Child Imaginaries ” - D. Rousell, & A. Cutter-Mackenzie-Knowles (2022). Posthuman research playspaces: Climate child imaginaries. NY, OX: Routledge
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
Composting Storytelling: An Approach for Critical (Multispecies) Ethnography
Stories produce bodies that produce stories in an endless intra-active metabolic continuum. Stories do not only represent material worlds but also shape and make new worlds. Starting from these premises, this article develops “composting storytelling,” a methodological approach to heterogeneous, open-ended, small stories interwoven with everyday interaction. Drawing on years-long ethnographic work in a school greenhouse, and multispecies and crit…
Entangling with the landscape: A methodological walking art experiment
This paper presents a walking art experiment called 'Line Walk' aimed at attuning to more-than-human landscapes. The researchers wanted to expand the methodological repertoires for engaging with contemporary semi-urban and urban living environments. A second goal was to increase attentiveness to multispecies relationality and thus challenge uncritically normative notions of nature in environmental educational research. The experiment demonstrates…
Ratty places – unsettling human-centeredness in ecological inquiry with young people
Posthumanist orientations have underlined the need to foster non-hierarchical relations with other-than-human beings to adequately attend to planetary crises and help life to survive and flourish. Since a posthumanist critique towards natural sciences has mostly leaned on questioning the premise of human subjects making sense of objectified nature, little effort has been made to explore if and how scientific research and posthumanist approaches m…
Imagination switch – Friction and thick time in speculative worldmaking
The inability to respond to the environmental crises has been argued to stem from the crisis of imagination that underlies modernity. In response, the potentials of speculative approaches have been explored. This article presents a speculative worldmaking project conducted in a secondary school with young people. The project involved three consecutive phases, last of which is more closely examined. Next to the ideas and stories produced with youn…
Child Ecologies in a Microbial World: A New Imperative for Childhood Studies
All bodies—child, animal, plant—are bodies sustained by life processes. Human as well as animal and plant bodies coexist with a multiplicity of microbial life. As symbiotic partners, human bodies are ecosystems of microbial life in a microbial world. In this way, microbes cannot simply be seen as disease-causing and human bodies as hosts of human-only life. Simplistic notions of the child as a unitary and social subject and the image of the agent…
Kun ei voi hengittää: Ilmapiiri näkökulmana nuorten ja muun luonnon välisiin suhteisiin ympäristökriisissä
Tutkimme artikkelissa nuoruutta ympäristökriisien ilmapiirissä keskittyen erityisesti muutoksessa olevaan ihmisen ja muun luonnon suhteeseen. Ilmapiiri on meille sekä tutkimuskohde että affektiivisen ja ontologisen virittymisen metodi. Esittelemme tutkimusta, jota olemme tehneet luonnontieteellisessä museossa yhdessä nuorten kanssa. Erittelemme ihmisen ja muunlajisten välisiä rajanvetoja, elämän, kuoleman ja eloisuuden teemoja sekä nuorten tuleva…
This place cannot be tidied up!’ Stigmatisation, rats, and place-making in a multispecies city
Treks of a Natureculture Mobile Research Station: The Peculiar Atmospheres of “Making Ethics”
By retelling stories of peculiar atmospheres during treks with our natureculture research station, we engage with becoming response-able while making ethics during research practice. Entangling feminist philosophies of agential realism by Karen Barad and nomadic ethics by Rosi Braidotti with multispecies methodologies, we illuminate how peculiar atmospheres are noticeable moments during which ethicality can be felt. This study highlights how thro…
Human/animal atmospheres: Attuning to ontologies with young people in the natural history museum and the zoo
Human-induced environmental destruction introduces shifts in our understanding of human-nature relations, while it also is felt as a crisis of affects and emotion. This research explores the interplay between ontology and affect by focusing on more-than-human atmospheres. We invited groups of children and young people to join our research on changing nature relations in a natural history museum and a zoo. Combining elements drawn from atmospheric…
Sociology (17 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Aesthetics (9 works) · Pedagogy (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Narrative (7 works) · Anthropology (6 works)