Narratives of Eagles Transcending European Ideology

Adopting a common world framework, the inquiry integrates the posthumanism, re-conceptualist, and anti-colonialist perspectives. The significance of biodiversity is portrayed in this project as the natural assemblages—ecological, cultural, political, and historical—as a means of cultivating deep interpersonal connections with the more-than-human fauna that inhabit these areas. The authors take up a practice of meandering (Banacka & Berger, 2019) to examine the ethic of place and how the ethos of humanity profoundly impacted the ecological ‘anthropogenic’ consequences on these beaches. The Strait of Georgia, which is situated on the unceded ancestral and customary lands of the Coast Salish peoples, flows between Vancouver Island and the British Columbia mainland and served as the backdrop for this living inquiry, which took place on both sides of the waterway. Guided by Mark Rifkin's (2017) notion of time, which pertains to coexistence with the abundance of temporalities while appreciating the ontological uniqueness that emerges through this living inquiry, serves as the basis for this project. The participants are connected in an intricate web of relationships and interdependencies that transcend borders, ecological cultures, and European ideologies. This journey considers the ethical elements of coexisting with the complexity, particularities, unpredictability, and unlimited possibilities of nature and more-than-human entities, while exploring and critically reflecting on the often overlooked, taken-for-granted, and unnoticed.    What does it mean to think with and correspond with place? How might alternative ways of thinking with all agentic force with(in) places be implemented?     Key Words: living curriculum, interconnectedness, reconceptualizing normality, common world, posthumanism theory, Anthropogenic methodology, arboreal temporalities