Curiography

Abstract

This entry introduces curiography as an innovative way of doing research in the era of the Anthropocene. Curiography is an epistemological framework that applies and critically evaluates the philosophical potential of curiosity to practice academic inquiry. It challenges the anthropocentric legacy of ethnographic methodology by inviting its practitioner to move beyond dominating human-centric methods based on rationality. Curiography as a postqualitative epistemological framework encourages innovative methodologies in order to become attentive to earthly relations and humans’ place as part of the world we aim to understand through academic inquiry.