Two Women Walking Along the Emergent Edge

Two Women Walking Along the Emergent Edge is a collaborative book of letters, fragments, images, and essays in which Jane Speedy and Bronwyn Davies write and make art across the climate crisis, ageing, and death, rethinking the human as more-than-human.

Moving between words, paint, memory, and philosophy, the authors show what post-qualitative, new materialist practice can do: unsettle normativity, widen response-ability, and make room for grief, joy, and ethical action. Chapters range from mycelial entanglement and birdsong to land stories, heteronormativity, deep time, and a speculative “pond-weed library” at the end of time, with photographs and artworks woven through.

This book is for postgraduate students, researchers, and practitioner-scholars in qualitative inquiry, arts-based research, autoethnography, collective biography, feminist theory, and environmental humanities, as well as readers outside the academy seeking serious, artful thought about life on a damaged planet.