In this work, I engage with post-anthropocentric and critical feminist posthumanist theory and the theory of new materialisms in a creative, postqualitative way through poetic research. In doing so, I also work with the so-called 'diffractive methodology' as offered by Karen Barad, in which I do not place different texts - memoirs, poetry, academic writing - side by side, in order to compare or critique, but rather dis/unite different perspectives together-apart in order to create 'new', affirmative perspectives for the construction of post-anthropocentric social work. Through a diffractive reading of the so-called establishment of working relationship and personal contact, as well as post-anthropocentric, posthumanist and new-materialist orientations in social work, I co-create a figuration of 'moments of encounter', which I think beyond the human (psychosocial) relationships between the user and the social worker. I am also developing a (po)ethics of enabling, where I am also thinking with Rosi Braidotti, her notion of power as relational (potestas in potentia), and response-ability as articulated by Karen Murris and Michalinos Zembylas, among others. On this basis, I present three »moments of encounter«, namely the moment of encounter with the flood (where I think with ecological, environmental, green and post-anthropocentric orientations of social work and with childhood by river Mura), the moment of encounter with the cat (where I additionally invite Bleki to writing where I think with already existing approaches to social work with animals, with philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari, specifically with concept of becoming (animal) and Donna Haraway and her understanding of sympoiesis, becoming-with and staying with the trouble) and the moment of encounter with missing times (where I utilize the so called temporal diffraction to problematize the conceptualization time as linear, progress-oriented, to show several different understandings of time beyond the West and to think about the 'novelty' of relational ontologies). In conclusion, I provide a poetic transcript of a counselling session with a social worker in which I was co-participant, I offer a brief 'synthesis' of the previous chapters, and dream of a world ...
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