Samar Nasrullah Khan 2022, Descartes Centre, Utrecht


Welcome to my thesis about dairy cow communication. This is one of the outputs, certainly the longest, from two years of visiting, contemplating and talking about what I experienced at dairy farms. The main method is fieldwork- but the fields are multiple. I wrote this thesis using a method of auto-ethnography, where I treat the me that writes as a field to be studied. The result is a thesis that has more to say about what it means to try to Listen to cows, rather than decipher what they are saying.


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Listening, with Dairy Cows


Introduction

1 Approach to writing

methodology - decoloniality - ethnography/anthropology - embodied listening - autoethnography - positionality

2 Language

assemblage - web - expression - intention - common world - semiotic repertoire - the relation and the inbetween - displacement of voice - agency of machines and materiality - thinging - confidence

3 Love

feeling - missing - memory studies - emotions - becoming-with - entwinement - threads - inside of - body ontology - scale invariance - individualism - monism - holobionts -break ups - rhythm - timescapes - plants - choreographies - collaboration

4 Re-orientations

ethics - queer phenomenology - mixture - human animal divide - the self in society - sedimentation - surrender - multimodality - discernment - storytelling - human exceptionalism - gestures- design


References

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