Participatory Democracy for the Non-Living and Non-Human

On May 2nd 2014 the Authority Research Network co-convened, with the Public Science Project CUNY, a workshop on "Participatory Democracy for the Non-Living and Non-Human" in New York. Plenary discussants were Jane Bennett (Johns Hopkins), Maria Torre & Rachel Liebert (CUNY Public Science), and Julian Brigstocke (Plymouth University). Papers included:

• Anatoli Ignatov How Land Speaks: Orature and ecological change
  
• Michelle Bastian Multi-Species Methods: Participatory research and the More-than-Human
  
• Gwendolyn Blue Animal Publics: Political subjectivity after the human subject
  
• Aaron Goodfellow ‘It’s a Killing Machine Just Waiting for You’: Chemical dependency, 
  slave narratives, and biological citizenship in Baltimore Maryland
• Tehseen Noorani Psychedelic Experience: Knowing through encounters with the non-human
  
• Naveeda Khan From Metamorphosis to Sentience in Plants: Two approaches 
  
• Ali Lara Spicy and Thermoception: The affective experience of eating street food
  
• Ananya Mukherjea and Jeffrey Bussolini La Vie en Commun: Cat yoga 
  
• Catherine D’Ignazio The Babbling Brook
  
• Amy Hicks With the Animal in Mind: Searching for the girl with the hairy paw
  
• Andres Marquez-­Lara Imagining and Embodying ‘Others’: How theater helps us explore
  
• the relationship between humans and non­‐present, non­‐human and non­‐living ‘others’
  
• Rita Turner Re­‐Imagining Human Relationships with the More­‐Than­‐Human World
  
• Fernando Quigua and Joshua W. Clegg Toward an Aesthetic Science
  
• Swayam Bagaria Touching the ‘Untouchable’: Reflections from contemporary Dalit 
  criticism
  
• Elan Abrell Collaborative Rescue: Non­‐human agency in animal sanctuaries
  
• Sam Kirwan The ‘Others’ of Advice Work
  
• María Torre The Co­‐Minglings of Solidarity and Participation in Community Research on Policing
  
• Claire Blencowe The Holy Spirit and the Dream of Democracy: From Hydra to Hercules (and back?)