Journal | Lagoonscapes
Monographic journal issue | 4 | 2 | 2024
Research Article | The Ongoing Grief of Boglands
The Ongoing Grief of Boglands
Re-Interpreting Ecological Grief with Lessons in Sympoiesis and Wetland Ecology
Abstract
This article ventures to boglands to reimagine ecological grief. Thinking with bogs points to an alternative way of imagining ecological grief as sympoiesis with the dead which disrupts capitalist temporalities and integrates what is ‘past’ into futures of multispecies livability. Acknowledging that previous scholarship has succeeded in establishing an understanding that nature is grievable, The Author contends that establishing the grievability of nature does not sufficiently intervene in patterns of ecological destruction, if current paradigms for experiencing grief itself are not also troubled. Thus this article asks how ecological grief can be informed by ecologies themselves, so that chrononormative regimes can be disrupted and the dead can be recognized as agential participants in the crafting of alternative futures.
Submitted: Aug. 5, 2024 | Accepted: Oct. 30, 2024 | Published Dec. 6, 2024 | Language: en
Keywords Boglands • Ecological grief • Relationality • Wetland ecology • Sympoiesis
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