Attuning to Trans-Species Pidgin Articulations: Pigeon Racing as a Creolization of Interspecies Subjectivities

Collaborating with Belgian Pigeon Racers in a plurivocal ethnography, this cooperative fieldwork grounds my research within a shared terrain of dialectical authorship. Pidgin is a creolization that radically reassess ontologies, rendering reality multiple, where discrepant versions coalesce in conversations. By tracing multiple, heterogenous, overlapping topologies of various relational fields that entangle the pigeon and fancier's worlds, networks of agencies allow for a polyvocality to reveal how semiotics act and enact realities of both materiality and immateriality. My Anthropological inquiries investigate how racing pigeons and fanciers re-inscribe and re-articulate themselves within shared milieux where affective forces co-construct spaces of becoming. Becoming-with-pigeon actively engages the pigeon as a co-conspirator in forming our realities and lifeways, in becoming otherworldly. Becoming is interactional, it re-constructs the world, it enacts realities. This ethnography seeks out various ways of co-constructing reality and re-articulating bodies to speak differently within a hyphened space of third-subjectivities, of pidgin. Pidgin reveals the multitude of ways that humans and animals emerge together in the world, co-constructing knowledge with and within their environment.