Grieving with Utterslev Marsh: Commoning and More-than-Human Temporalities

This chapter explores the entangled temporalities emerging in my fieldwork by Utterslev marsh, a series of interconnected, shallow lakes in Northwestern Copenhagen. I examine how ongoing sensory relationships with the marsh and its ecologies rupture experiences of linear time and geographical distance. Through sensory engagements across seasons, changing weather and unfolding events, embodied memories surface into the present and resonate with the ecologies of the marsh. Future, past and present events, seemingly separate in space and time, are sensed as entangled. This practice of embodied re-membering brings together intergenerational memories and biographical events with listening to the multispecies presences and temporalities of the Utterslev marsh, facilitating knowledge of ongoingness and cyclicity rather than linear time.