Sarah E Truman
Biographic Data
| ID | 3634835 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Truman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Truman |
| SIGNATURE | TRUMAN S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Melbourne |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 89 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Mining-nostalgias: Youth speculative fictions about place and the future
This paper examines how young people in a deindustrialised mining town in South Wales, UK engage with history, place, and futurity through writing speculative fiction. As part of a research-creation project, students aged 14–15 composed dystopian stories set in imagined futures of their local geography and later performed their work in a public showcase. As barometers of lived atmospheres, the students’ speculative fictions register how local his…
Can we queer nostalgia? Fabulating more just futures through the speculative arts
Cosmic Beavers: Queer Counter-Mythologies Through Speculative Songwriting
In this article, the authors introduce the concept of a "queer counter-mythology." They do so by discussing a speculative song they wrote as an enactment of research-creation. Research-creation names an interdisciplinary scholarly praxis where artist-scholars create the artefacts they want to think-with, rather than analysing existing cultural productions. The song discussed in this article, "Cosmic Beavers," proposes a queer counter-mythology th…
Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place
In this Editorial, we discuss WalkingLab’s approach to critical walking methodologies grounded in queer-feminist, anti-racist praxis, and argue for the need to critically account for understandings of place in times of ongoing crises. We then introduce the articles featured in this special issue. Authored by international scholars, each article in the special issue engages critically with walking methodologies and the concept place from oblique a…
New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking With Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry
Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to engage with 20th-century post-classical physical science. Many of these projects have focused on alternative matter–mind mixtures and in/organic variation, concerned that past theories of sociality have dismissed the vibrancy and animacy of the nonhuman material world. This paper explores the power of speculative fiction to help us rethink empiricism in pos…
The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation
Research-Creation Walking Methodologies and an Unsettling of Time
This article examines two walking events that explore questions of sovereignty, borders, histories, and time through strategies of speculation, counter-cartographies, and anarchiving practices. To the Landless by Dylan Miner and Miss Canadiana's Heritage and Cultural Walking Tour: The Grange by Camille Turner ask us to imagine a past, present, and future that are radically different from ongoing settler colonialism and White supremacy. Stepping ‘…
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab
As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics and politics of the more-than-human: Land and geos, …
A Transmaterial Approach to Walking Methodologies: Embodiment, Affect, and a Sonic Art Performance
Bodily methodologies that engage with the affective, rhythmic, and temporal dimensions of movement have altered the landscape of social science and humanities research. Walking is one such methodology by which scholars have examined vital, sensory, material, and ephemeral intensities beyond the logics of representation. Extending this rich field, this article invokes the concept trans to reconceptualize walking research through theories that atte…
Stone Walks: Inhuman Animacies and Queer Archives of Feeling
Excavating what Jeffrey Cohen [2015. Stone: An ecology of the inhuman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press] calls ‘lithic ecomateriality’, in this paper we illustrate how rocks have traditionally been conceptualized through three tropes: rocks as insensate; rocks as personified; and rocks as transformative. We take up the concept of inhuman to challenge human-centric taxonomies of rocks and animacy. If rocks are not lifeless, or only consi…
Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies
A Transmaterial Approach to Walking Methodologies: Embodiment, Affect, and a Sonic Art Performance
Bodily methodologies that engage with the affective, rhythmic, and temporal dimensions of movement have altered the landscape of social science and humanities research. Walking is one such methodology by which scholars have examined vital, sensory, material, and ephemeral intensities beyond the logics of representation. Extending this rich field, this article invokes the concept trans to reconceptualize walking research through theories that atte…
Stone Walks: Inhuman Animacies and Queer Archives of Feeling
Excavating what Jeffrey Cohen [2015. Stone: An ecology of the inhuman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press] calls ‘lithic ecomateriality’, in this paper we illustrate how rocks have traditionally been conceptualized through three tropes: rocks as insensate; rocks as personified; and rocks as transformative. We take up the concept of inhuman to challenge human-centric taxonomies of rocks and animacy. If rocks are not lifeless, or only consi…
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab
As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics and politics of the more-than-human: Land and geos, …
The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
Cosmic Beavers: Queer Counter-Mythologies Through Speculative Songwriting
In this article, the authors introduce the concept of a "queer counter-mythology." They do so by discussing a speculative song they wrote as an enactment of research-creation. Research-creation names an interdisciplinary scholarly praxis where artist-scholars create the artefacts they want to think-with, rather than analysing existing cultural productions. The song discussed in this article, "Cosmic Beavers," proposes a queer counter-mythology th…
Mining-nostalgias: Youth speculative fictions about place and the future
This paper examines how young people in a deindustrialised mining town in South Wales, UK engage with history, place, and futurity through writing speculative fiction. As part of a research-creation project, students aged 14–15 composed dystopian stories set in imagined futures of their local geography and later performed their work in a public showcase. As barometers of lived atmospheres, the students’ speculative fictions register how local his…
Pedagogical Matters: New Materialisms and Curriculum Studies
Walking Methodologies in a More-than-human World: WalkingLab
As a research methodology, walking has a diverse and extensive history in the social sciences and humanities, underscoring its value for conducting research that is situated, relational, and material. Building on the importance of place, sensory inquiry, embodiment, and rhythm within walking research, this book offers four new concepts for walking methodologies that are accountable to an ethics and politics of the more-than-human: Land and geos, …
A Transmaterial Approach to Walking Methodologies: Embodiment, Affect, and a Sonic Art Performance
Bodily methodologies that engage with the affective, rhythmic, and temporal dimensions of movement have altered the landscape of social science and humanities research. Walking is one such methodology by which scholars have examined vital, sensory, material, and ephemeral intensities beyond the logics of representation. Extending this rich field, this article invokes the concept trans to reconceptualize walking research through theories that atte…
Stone Walks: Inhuman Animacies and Queer Archives of Feeling
Excavating what Jeffrey Cohen [2015. Stone: An ecology of the inhuman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press] calls ‘lithic ecomateriality’, in this paper we illustrate how rocks have traditionally been conceptualized through three tropes: rocks as insensate; rocks as personified; and rocks as transformative. We take up the concept of inhuman to challenge human-centric taxonomies of rocks and animacy. If rocks are not lifeless, or only consi…
Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation
Research-Creation Walking Methodologies and an Unsettling of Time
This article examines two walking events that explore questions of sovereignty, borders, histories, and time through strategies of speculation, counter-cartographies, and anarchiving practices. To the Landless by Dylan Miner and Miss Canadiana's Heritage and Cultural Walking Tour: The Grange by Camille Turner ask us to imagine a past, present, and future that are radically different from ongoing settler colonialism and White supremacy. Stepping ‘…
The Capaciousness of No: Affective Refusals as Literacy Practices
The authors considered the capacious feeling that emerges from saying no to literacy practices, and the affective potential of saying no as a literacy practice. The authors highlight the affective possibilities of saying no to normative understandings of literacy, thinking with a series of vignettes in which children, young people, and teachers refused literacy practices in different ways. The authors use the term capacious to signal possibilitie…
New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking With Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry
Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to engage with 20th-century post-classical physical science. Many of these projects have focused on alternative matter–mind mixtures and in/organic variation, concerned that past theories of sociality have dismissed the vibrancy and animacy of the nonhuman material world. This paper explores the power of speculative fiction to help us rethink empiricism in pos…
Critical Walking Methodologies and Oblique Agitations of Place
In this Editorial, we discuss WalkingLab’s approach to critical walking methodologies grounded in queer-feminist, anti-racist praxis, and argue for the need to critically account for understandings of place in times of ongoing crises. We then introduce the articles featured in this special issue. Authored by international scholars, each article in the special issue engages critically with walking methodologies and the concept place from oblique a…
Cosmic Beavers: Queer Counter-Mythologies Through Speculative Songwriting
In this article, the authors introduce the concept of a "queer counter-mythology." They do so by discussing a speculative song they wrote as an enactment of research-creation. Research-creation names an interdisciplinary scholarly praxis where artist-scholars create the artefacts they want to think-with, rather than analysing existing cultural productions. The song discussed in this article, "Cosmic Beavers," proposes a queer counter-mythology th…
Mining-nostalgias: Youth speculative fictions about place and the future
This paper examines how young people in a deindustrialised mining town in South Wales, UK engage with history, place, and futurity through writing speculative fiction. As part of a research-creation project, students aged 14–15 composed dystopian stories set in imagined futures of their local geography and later performed their work in a public showcase. As barometers of lived atmospheres, the students’ speculative fictions register how local his…
Can we queer nostalgia? Fabulating more just futures through the speculative arts
Sociology (6 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (5 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Feeling (3 works) · Narrative (3 works) · Normative (3 works) · Political science (3 works)