Personal and Academic Blurred Spaces Hinged on Synchronous Gravities in Nature: Conceptual Musings from Events of (Re-)configurations during COVID-19 Pandemic

Haris Adhikari

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This paper inquires into a two-fold issue: (i) blurred personal and academic spaces during the pandemic and their impact, and (ii) nature’s role in them. As a transformative arts-based research (TABR) within an experimental framework deploying concepts of liminality, Derrida’s ‘teleiopoiesis’, and an adapted outlook of experiential interconnectedness or consciousness of Advaita Vedanta, the paper forwards pedagogically useful findings and implications as these: (i) blurred spaces as bizarre or third space entities that were both stressful and productive, (ii) increased exposures to nature and eco-spirituality, followed by heightened realizations of nature’s place in life, learning and being during the pandemic, (iii) heterotopic university as a space or place that effectuated a surge in self-internalization of learning via intense involvement, (iv) compassionate/ empathic living as a door to self-improvement and joy, (v) formations of new habits and routines as coping strategies in the difficult times, and (v) newly formed wholesome habits and synchronous gravities in nature as great contributors to increased reflective or creative productivity during the pandemic. Additionally, yet more importantly, it highlights the instrumentality of human senses as lower rungs in realizing the interconnectedness or consciousness that experiential Advaita proffers, and this it does by communicating the need for individually unique, radically nonlinear, and adventurously inter-/ trans-disciplinary celebrations of the phenomenon. Besides, it celebrates interrelated questions and curiosities throughout.

type	research exposition
keywords	pandemic, blurred spaces, nature, niching, threshold pedagogic insights, TABR
date	04/08/2023
published	04/08/2023
last modified	04/08/2023
status	published
share status	private
affiliation	Kathmandu University
copyright	Haris C. Adhikari
license	CC BY-NC-ND
language	American English
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2244570/2244569
doi	https://doi.org/10.22501/rc.2244570
published in	Research Catalogue

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Personal and Academic Blurred Spaces Hinged on Synchronous Gravities in Nature: Conceptual Musings from Events of (Re-)configurations during COVID-19 Pandemic (2023)

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