ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces and provides the context for the book. It defines key terms and situates the Anthropocene as the key backdrop for the book. The chapter highlights how the book actively engages with place and space using transdisciplinarity and critical feminist (new) materialist concepts and theories. It details how place-space works methodologically by offering the potential to consider the impact of discourse, history, and materiality on human, non-human, and multispecies kin bodies. It also argues that place-spaces are a methodology developed through undisciplined research, research-creation, and walking-with to setup place-space methodologies. In this chapter, Academic Writing Otherwise is introduced to provide the reader with an understanding of the way the book is written, which projects produced the data included in the chapters, and how the chapters are ordered in the book.
