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Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack
Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack
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1 - 80Publisher
Vagabond PressPlace of publication
Sydney, N.S.W.ISBN-13
9781925735260Language
engResearch statement
Background Bees Do Bother: An Antagonist's Care Pack takes its cue from Leonardo da Vinci’s observation that the bee does not simply collect and use but digests and transforms. It considers firstly, how our understanding of social interactions might borrow from those of the more-than human and secondly, that we need to reconceptualise existence as closely connected to the more-than-human. The central question driving Bees Do Bother is: how might we creatively draw together these strands of care and activism? How can poetry reorient our gaze to ask how can we deal more ethically with our shaky knowledges? Contribution As its title suggests, the collection plays upon the dual meaning of bothering as an act of care as much as an act of disturbance. Taking a specifically feminist approach, the poetry collection considers how experiences of intimacy and labour have been shaped by cultural hierarchies and divisions around gender, race, capital, and nation. Through the use of (formal technique) the work highlights existing social and ecological vulnerability. Through the use of (formal technique) the work unsettles prescribed roles, thereby (drawing the strands of activism and care in order to reorient our gaze to our often-shirked responsibilities and our perilous future that is already here) Significance In imaginatively teasing out and beginning the work of transforming relations, the researcher is addressing ways in which poetry might lead to more sustainable forms of belonging and solidarity. This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body.Publication classification
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