Stockholm university
Department of Social Anthropology

Multispecies Methods Workshop

Workshop

Date: Tuesday 27 May 2025

Time: 10.00 – 12.00

Location: B604

The BIOrdinary team is pleased to invite you to a ‘hands-on’ Multispecies Methods Workshop with Andrea Petitt

This workshop explores multispecies methods as a creative, critical, and ethical response to traditional anthropocentric approaches in ethnographic research. Centred on more-than-human connections, it invites participants to engage with human and non-human encounters—from insects and horses to bodies of water and plantations—without reproducing the normative frameworks of human-centred knowledge production. Grounded in artistic, sensory, and experimental methodologies, the workshop fosters an imaginative rethinking of ethnographic practices, embracing storytelling, poetry, fiction, sound, rhythm, and tactile modes of inquiry as valid and vital tools for embodied communication and knowledge co-creation.

By exchanging experiences from our case-studies and field sites, we aim to (re)think ethnographic methods together and develop tools and techniques for learning with rather than merely about other beings and lifeworlds. We will grapple with questions such as: How can we create knowledge about non-human beings while navigating our own biases, preconceptions, as well as sensory and cognitive limitations? What could interviews with nonhuman beings look like? And how might we push the boundaries of what counts as “data” and who counts as a knowledge producer? Ultimately, this is an invitation to reimagine the processes of learning and knowing in ways that are ethically attuned, multisensory, and open to meaningful interspecies encounters that challenge and expand our anthropological imagination.

For preparation, we encourage you to join us for Andrea’s department research seminar the day before, on Monday, 26 May: "An artful horseback ethnography of a Rocky Mountain ranching Multispecies Triad"

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Last updated: May 22, 2025

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