Reciprocal Literacies: A Post-Qualitative Case Study of Artists’ Ephemeral and Matterless Connections Amongst Place

Boschee Ellefson, Jana Kirsten

Reciprocal Literacies: A Post-Qualitative Case Study of Artists’ Ephemeral and Matterless Connections Amongst Place

dc.contributor.advisor	Lenters, Kimberly
dc.contributor.author	Boschee Ellefson, Jana Kirsten
dc.contributor.committeemember	Chambers, Cynthia
dc.contributor.committeemember	Spring, Erin
dc.date	2024-06
dc.date.accessioned	2024-01-22T15:20:15Z
dc.date.available	2024-01-22T15:20:15Z
dc.date.issued	2024-01-18
dc.description.abstract	Meaningfully connecting with our social and natural environments becomes challenging in an increasingly digital and globalized world. Affective language and literacy practices carry potential for affirming and fostering generative entanglements amongst people and places; furthermore, such relationships are important to the well-being of the individual participants and the collective community of human and more-than-human. Beyond traditional, text-based literacies, ephemeral and matterless literacies offer modes of positive reciprocal interactions within assemblages. The literature review considers Indigenous and posthuman theories as they relate to literacy, place, and research approaches. The studied assemblages include the human and more-than-human participants of creative contexts in Southern Alberta, including a photographer, a musician/painter, an installation artist, and a performance artist. The methodological approach reflects ethico-onto-epistemological commitments to the openings and transformation Indigenous and posthumanist theories suggest. The multi-case study illuminates and sparks potentials existing in creative, cultural, and communal practices when constraints of educational institutions are removed and textless communication is emphasized. Attending to these literacies requires that literacy researchers and educators reconsider institutional concepts of literacy / literacy spaces focused on culturally biased, individual, text-based performance, and begin afresh. The study explores and describes the flows of intention and surrender that inspire and incite ephemeral and matterless communicative practices existing in adult lives and in doing so, imagines pedagogical possibilities to honour reciprocal relationship with places, in the dynamic and all-encompassing sense of the word.
dc.identifier.citation	Boschee Ellefson, J. K. (2024). Reciprocal literacies: a post-qualitative case study of artists’ ephemeral and matterless connections amongst place (Doctoral thesis, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada). Retrieved from https://prism.ucalgary.ca.
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/1880/118021
dc.language.iso	en
dc.publisher.faculty	Werklund School of Education
dc.publisher.institution	University of Calgary
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dc.subject	affect
dc.subject	arts-based
dc.subject	assemblage
dc.subject	creativity
dc.subject	ephemeral
dc.subject	Indigenous Theory
dc.subject	literacies
dc.subject	place
dc.subject	matterless
dc.subject	posthumanism
dc.subject	post-qualitative case study
dc.subject	theoretical métissage
dc.subject.classification	Education
dc.subject.classification	Education--Art
dc.subject.classification	Education--Curriculum and Instruction
dc.subject.classification	Education--Language and Literature
dc.subject.classification	Education--Philosophy of
dc.subject.classification	Fine Arts
dc.title	Reciprocal Literacies: A Post-Qualitative Case Study of Artists’ Ephemeral and Matterless Connections Amongst Place
dc.type	doctoral thesis
thesis.degree.discipline	Education Graduate Program – Educational Research
thesis.degree.grantor	University of Calgary
thesis.degree.name	Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
ucalgary.thesis.accesssetbystudent	I do not require a thesis withhold – my thesis will have open access and can be viewed and downloaded publicly as soon as possible.