ABSTRACT
This chapter is about ‘more-than-human participatory research’ in wildlife conservation that involves dogs and humans, and perhaps some pine martens as well. Following the weave of this edited collection, literatures from the diverse fields of participatory research (PR) and more-than-human research (MtHR) are brought into conversation in a productive friction that moves from noting their shared antecedents towards identifying points of generative tension – in this case, literatures specific to wildlife conservation. We consider how the various actions of dogs and martens and humans might be re-imagined as more-than-human participatory practices – and what this conceptual cross-stitching might imply for both: (i) the ontology, and (ii) the ethics of research that claims to be participatory with a more-than-human sensibility.
