ABSTRACT
Chapter 3 navigates a series of transitions into discussions of ecology through an engagement with Whitehead’s speculative philosophy and Isabelle’s Stengers’ notion of “cosmopolitics”. Situating immersive cartography within a posthuman ecologisation of life processes, the chapter addresses the problem of how multi-species “fieldwork” might look when the concept of ecology is expanded to include the trans-qualitative movement of experience within a more-than-human ecology of practices. A series of examples are drawn from fieldwork experiences with environmental science students and lecturers in Bundjalung National Park, building on Stengers’ cosmopolitical proposal to trace a series of tentative shifts and disruptions within a multi-species ethics and aesthetics of coexistence.
