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dc.contributor.advisorEllison, David A
dc.contributor.authorLepori, Giulia
dc.date.accessioned2022-11-17T05:21:32Z
dc.date.available2022-11-17T05:21:32Z
dc.date.issued2022-11-09
dc.identifier.doi10.25904/1912/4687
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/419494
dc.description.abstractSituated in the environmental humanities, Land is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnography is an interdisciplinary doctoral project grounded in the permacultural site of Thar dö Ling in rural north-western Sicily, Italy. Within a theoretical and methodological framework inspired by ecocriticism, new materialism, posthumanism, and a personal land ethic, the research crafted a “collage methodology” to enact a reading and writing of the permacultural site, combining six months of autoethnographic fieldwork with material ecocritical analysis. Conceiving permaculture design as a type of more-than-human communication that can favour multispecies and elemental mutual relationality, the site is interpreted as a more-than-human inscription where to gather (another word for “read”) a shared narrative of regeneration. Following feminist and environmental humanist invitations for “storying” and “worlding” as ethical works of living and relating with more-than-human worlds, this thesis is written within an elemental and multispecies frame offering different temporal and spatial scales, from multiple perspectives. The collage methodology draws dimensions of my personal memories and familial inheritances into relation with immersive fieldwork and situated memories, to write a collage of the Thar dö Ling permacultural site in coemergence with multiple narrative agencies and design abilities. Within this research, storying and worlding are recognised as more-than-human collective practices to draw attention to the narrative agencies and design abilities of other beings, nonbeings and elements composing both the permacultural site and the thesis. Collaging a composition of multiple temporal and spatial dimensions, agencies and partial encounters, this material ecocritical autoethnography is expressed as a process of reading, gathering, and writing the more-than-human threads within the Thar dö Ling fieldwork site. This thesis comprises seven chapters, of which four are the autoethnographic parts dedicated to the fieldwork site’s recollection. Before encountering them, two chapters lay ground for this doctoral project, offering the intimate and larger context in which the research has coemerged, as well as the theoretical and methodological foundations. Across the autoethnographic chapters, the reader is invited to move within the permacultural site, guided by the topic-places of water, plants, food and waste as situated materialities emerging from the landscape in which Thar dö Ling exists. In conclusion, there is hope.en_US
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherGriffith University
dc.publisher.placeBrisbane
dc.subject.keywordspermacultureen_US
dc.subject.keywordsautoethnographyen_US
dc.subject.keywordsecocriticismen_US
dc.titleLand is Shaped as Land Shapes: A Material Ecocritical Autoethnographyen_US
dc.typeGriffith thesisen_US
gro.facultyArts, Education and Lawen_US
gro.rights.copyrightThe author owns the copyright in this thesis, unless stated otherwise.
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dc.contributor.otheradvisorWright, Katherine
dc.contributor.otheradvisorBarry, Kaya T
gro.identifier.gurtID000000025790en_US
gro.thesis.degreelevelThesis (PhD Doctorate)en_US
gro.thesis.degreeprogramDoctor of Philosophy (PhD)en_US
gro.departmentSchool of Hum, Lang & Soc Scen_US
gro.griffith.authorLepori, Giulia


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