{"id":73,"date":"2019-06-04T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastedlandscapes.climateactionchildhood.net\/?p=73"},"modified":"2021-04-06T14:55:48","modified_gmt":"2021-04-06T14:55:48","slug":"how-might-attuning-to-withness-marks-reconfigure-our-non-innocent-encounters-with-place","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastedlandscapes.climateactionchildhood.net\/index.php\/2019\/06\/04\/how-might-attuning-to-withness-marks-reconfigure-our-non-innocent-encounters-with-place\/","title":{"rendered":"How might attuning to wit(h)ness marks reconfigure our non-innocent encounters with place?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This post is reproduced from the<a href=\"http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"commonworlds.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"> Common Worlds Research Collective\u2019<\/a>s series of microblogs. The original post can be found here: http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/how-might-attuning-to-withness-marks-reconfigure-our-non-innocent-encounters-with-place\/<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>How might attuning to wit(h)ness marks reconfigure our place-relations as non-innocent encounters with place?<\/em>\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/how-might-storying-witness-marks-guide-our-relations-with-place\/\" target=\"_blank\">In a previous microblog\u00a0<\/a>I suggested storying\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/stownpodcast.org\/chapter\/1\" target=\"_blank\">witness marks<\/a>\u00a0as a useful concept for thinking with encounters at the\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.niagararegion.ca\/living\/naturalization\/glenridge-quarry.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Glenridge Quarry<\/a>. While witness marks may be useful for witnessing and storying the multiple historicities in our pedagogical work at the Quarry (Hamm, 2015; Nxumalo, 2016), here I think with Louise Boscacci\u2019s (2018) concept of wit(h)nessing and propose that wit(h)ness marks point to our entangled relations with the site\u2019s presences and futurities. Boscacci writes that wit(h)nessing \u201crenders any\u00a0<em>a-bodied<\/em>encounter explicitly relational: it is an encounter-<em>exchange<\/em>\u201d (p. 345). Wit(h)ness marks thus remind us that our pedagogical work is non-innocent \u2013 we disrupt the land; we hear snail shells crunch with every step \u2013 and that our presence at the Quarry does not exist outside of an encounter-<em>exchange<\/em>. Attuning to our wit(h)ness marks may be one way of crafting differently response-able pedagogies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>References:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Boscacci,\u00a0L. (2018). Wit(h)nessing.\u00a0<em>Environmental Humanities<\/em>,\u00a0<em>10<\/em>(1), 343\u2013347.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hamm, C. (2015). Walking with place: Storying reconciliation pedagogies in early childhood education.&nbsp;<em>Canadian Children, 40<\/em>(2), 56-66.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nxumalo, F. (2016). Storying practices of witnessing: Refiguring quality in everyday pedagogical encounters.&nbsp;<em>Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood,&nbsp;17<\/em>(1), 39\u201353.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is reproduced from the Common Worlds Research Collective\u2019s series of microblogs. The original post can be found here: http:\/\/commonworlds.net\/how-might-attuning-to-withness-marks-reconfigure-our-non-innocent-encounters-with-place\/ How might attuning to wit(h)ness marks reconfigure our place-relations as non-innocent encounters with place?\u00a0In a previous microblog\u00a0I suggested storying\u00a0witness marks\u00a0as a useful concept for thinking with encounters at the\u00a0Glenridge Quarry. 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