Jane Speedy Livres

Exploring the intersection of art and daily life, this work emphasizes the importance of affect, listening, and feeling within a more-than-human world. It merges arts-based methodologies with insights from natural and biological sciences, challenging traditional disciplinary boundaries. The text advocates for a new ethics that rejects human dominance, focusing on our interconnectedness with the vibrant materiality of life. By examining the poetics of embodied living, it invites readers to reconsider their relationship with the world as dynamic and emergent.

After suffering a severe stroke, acclaimed qualitative scholar Jane Speedy took to her iPad to write and draw as a way of making sense of her experience and to aid her recovery. The stunning fragmented poetic text and images comprising Staring at the Park depict the events of this difficult journey and an alternative model of evocative, artistic autoethnography.