Two Women Walking Along the Emergent Edge

More-Than-Human Entanglements in an All-Too-Vulnerable World

Jane Speedy, Bronwyn Davies

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2026
• Print ISBN:
  9781041341536
  9781041341543
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040984758
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

Two Women Walking Along the Emergent Edge is not a methods book in the traditional sense, but methodology as lived praxis, and as artistic, poetic worlding. It weaves thoughts and emotions together, through words and paint, through art, literature, poetry, ecology, history and auto-ethnography. It moves back and forth in-between the two authors, Jane and Bronwyn, as they explore their different scholarly approaches to life itself, as they have lived it, imagined it, thought about it, and occasionally argued about it. It is partly historical, wondering how we humans arrived at this point, partly speculative, considering our (im)possible futures, and it is highly personal and intra-personal. It explores the acts of living and dying, not an individualistic living and dying, but the living and dying of the more-than-human, who are of the world, entangled in the matter and mattering of the world. The analysis draws on new materialism, post-humanism, post-qualitative inquiry, ecology, autoethnography, art, literature, and the authors' own everyday relationality. It seeks to find/forge a new and sometimes hopeful sense of the world, and of thought and action. It does so mindful of the broader context of the new populism being deployed by autocrats, a populism that limits and controls human thought, and with it, creativity and freedom.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• Prologue: Writing and artmaking that responds to, and emerges within, postqualitative thinking/writing/creating/living, in the context of climate change
• Part 1 Creative, relational entanglement
• Part 2 Autoethnographic ponderings and connectedness to land
• Part 3 Oceans, climates and the shape of things, species and matters yet to come
• Index