Ravens at Play

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Deborah Bird Rose
Stuart Cooke
Thom van Dooren

Abstract

 ‘We were driving through Death Valley, an American-Australian and two Aussies, taking the scenic route from Las Vegas to Santa Cruz.’

This multi-voiced account of multispecies encounters along a highway takes up the challenge of playful and humorous writing that is as well deeply serious and theoretically provocative. Our travels brought us into what Donna Haraway calls the contact zone: a region of recognition and response. The contact zone is a place of significant questions: ‘Who are you, and so who are we? Here we are, and so what are we to become?’ Events were everything in this ecology of play, in which the movements of all the actors involved the material field in its entirety. We were brought into dances of approach and withdrawal, dances emerging directly, to paraphrase Brian Massumi, from the dynamic relation between a myriad of charged particles.

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Author Biographies

Deborah Bird Rose, Macquarie University

Deborah Bird Rose is Professor of Social Inclusion in the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia.

Stuart Cooke, Macquarie University

Stuart Cooke recently completed a PhD on Indigenous Australian and Chilean poetics at the Centre for Research on Social Inclusion, Macquarie University, Australia.

Thom van Dooren, University of New South Wales

Thom van Dooren in a lecturer in environmental studies in the School of History and Philosophy at the University of New South Wales, Australia.