The Common Worlds Research Collective is an interdisciplinary network of researchers concerned with our relations with the more-than-human world.

Co-founded by feminist childhood scholars Affrica Taylor, Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Mindy Blaise in the 2010s, the Collective provides a critical multidisciplinary space across the fields of early childhood education, children’s and more-than-human geographies, environmental education, feminisms, and Indigenous and environmental humanities.

The notion of common worlds is an inclusive, more than human notion that helps us to avoid the divisive distinction that is often drawn between human societies and natural environments (Haraway, 2013; Latour, 2004). By re-situating our lives within indivisible common worlds, our research focuses upon the ways in which our past, present and future lives are entangled with those of other beings, non- living entities, technologies, elements, discourses, forces, landforms.

Common worlds researchers are involved in two interrelated strands of inquiry: methodological and pedagogical projectsthat grapple with commoning, worlding, and inheriting.