Calling in Kinship

Jennie's PhD project is an ecomusicological, (eco)feminist, and posthumanist study on the Scandinavian herding calling "kulning". Jennie explores the connectivity, dynamics, and intensities of herding musicking situations with an aim to deepen our understanding of herding musicking as an unfolding and emergent multispecies phenomenon. My hope is that this may offer micro-political spaces that allows for affirmative relations that support more-than-human actions. The main research question is how more-than-human bodies produce and transform herding musicking by their dynamic relations. 

KEYWORDS: Herding musicking, herding calling, kulning, affect, posthumanism, ecomusicology, human-animal studies

Phd student

Jennie Tiderman-Österberg, jennie.tiderman-osterberg@oru.se