Abstract
This paper aims to present and discuss a future research project using the premisses of Multimodal Conversation
Analysis (MCA) tools to describe interactions with plants and vegetal beings. I am especially interested to discuss
the ways we describe plants, vegetal beings and nature in our analysis, and their consequences.
A growing interest for plants and their agencies is emerging in the social and human sciences. Studying human
interactions with plants from different perspectives, these propositions suggest that plants can be considered as
actors requesting moral and ethical attention. Their aim is to renew our consideration about our environment and
its preservation, by revisiting our assumptions about what plants are, how they interact with their surroundings
and how we should interact with them. However, vegetal agencies can be further studied, especially to understand
the situated details of plants abilities to interact in the way MCA tools allow us to do. Since the use of video
recorded interactions, MCA takes into account senses and bodies not only as means to produce interactions, but
also as enduring and pervasive elements that are continuously embedded in the shapes of the collectives. MCA
also recently evolved to take into account other than human beings, such as objects and animals. Using video
analysis and transcription will provide new venues to both understand and describe interactions with plants and
vegetal beings as stable but moving and living other-than-human actants.
Central to MCA are several transcription conventions. Transcriptions are not only description and analysis tools,
they also ask questions regarding agencies and their depictions and renderings. The proposition is to start thinking
on how we can analyze and make available the details of these interactions, observing how plants interact as
stable but mobile elements and how they are interacted with, in the detail of situated practices and manipulations.
Analysis (MCA) tools to describe interactions with plants and vegetal beings. I am especially interested to discuss
the ways we describe plants, vegetal beings and nature in our analysis, and their consequences.
A growing interest for plants and their agencies is emerging in the social and human sciences. Studying human
interactions with plants from different perspectives, these propositions suggest that plants can be considered as
actors requesting moral and ethical attention. Their aim is to renew our consideration about our environment and
its preservation, by revisiting our assumptions about what plants are, how they interact with their surroundings
and how we should interact with them. However, vegetal agencies can be further studied, especially to understand
the situated details of plants abilities to interact in the way MCA tools allow us to do. Since the use of video
recorded interactions, MCA takes into account senses and bodies not only as means to produce interactions, but
also as enduring and pervasive elements that are continuously embedded in the shapes of the collectives. MCA
also recently evolved to take into account other than human beings, such as objects and animals. Using video
analysis and transcription will provide new venues to both understand and describe interactions with plants and
vegetal beings as stable but moving and living other-than-human actants.
Central to MCA are several transcription conventions. Transcriptions are not only description and analysis tools,
they also ask questions regarding agencies and their depictions and renderings. The proposition is to start thinking
on how we can analyze and make available the details of these interactions, observing how plants interact as
stable but mobile elements and how they are interacted with, in the detail of situated practices and manipulations.
| Originalsprog | Engelsk |
|---|---|
| Publikationsdato | 2022 |
| Status | Udgivet - 2022 |
| Udgivet eksternt | Ja |