Shows how agential realism can be applied in research across a variety of different disciplines and levels of scholarship.
With a foreword by Karen Barad and audio transcripts and videos have their explicit permission / endorsement to be included.
Based on a seminar held in South Africa and largely attended by scholars from the global south - reviewers praised for diversity.
Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Emerita Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a teacher educator, grounded in academic philosophy and a postqualitative research paradigm. Her main interests are in posthuman child studies, philosophy in education, ethics and democratic pedagogies. www.karinmurris.com
Vivienne Bozalek is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University and Emerita Professor in the Department of Women's and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests pertain to the political ethics of care and social justice, posthumanism and feminist new materialisms, innovative pedagogical practices in higher education, and postqualitative and participatory methodologies.
Title: In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism (Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research)
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ISBN: 9781032253831
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-27
Number of Pages: 184
Weight: 0.3811 kg
In conversation with a generous South African research community, an ethics of re-turning and staying-with is beautifully unfolded on agential realist philosophy and concepts and a diverse empirical material.
Malou Juelskjaer, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark
This innovative collection of essays brings Karen Barad's agential realism to life in the context of South African higher education. Drawing the reader in through playful, performative exchanges, the contributions creatively reimagine multidisciplinary research and rebuild pedagogical practices.
Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter, UK
What does it mean to make agential realism a thinking, writing, and collaborative practice? The book addresses this question with immense care guided by deep concern for de/colonializing education in the South African context.
Magdalena Gorska, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands
