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How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today's neoliberal academia and beyond?
This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, asking how researchers are affected by, and affect, the worlds they engage with. Using experimental formats that challenge academic convention, the volume acknowledges the 'dark sides' of reflexivity, while insisting that it is nonetheless worthwhile striving for it.
This volume is essential for anyone interested in creative, playful and always incomplete attempts to refresh reflexivity in research, and in developing more liveable worlds for ourselves and those our research engages with.
Contents
PART I: Navigating
1. Introduction - Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz and Fredy Mora-Gámez
2. A User's Guide to 'Revisiting Reflexivity' - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gámez
3. Automatic Reply: Another University is Possible - Reuben Message, Jane Calvert and Rob Smith
4. Is My Work Reflexive Enough? - Anne Beaulieu
PART II: Affecting
Section II.1: Bodies
5. Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Empirical Research - Michael Penkler
6. Becoming Instrument - Joshua D. Evans
7. care embodied: speaking from a nonbinary, crip, menstrual body - marissa micah schut
8. Movement, Rest, Bodyminds - Ekat Osipova
Section II.2: Participation
9. Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research - Dimas D. Laksmana
10. Making More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia: Reflexivity in Collaborative Research Practice - Camilo Castillo
11. Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Barbara Morsello
PART III: Experimenting
Section III.1: Doing
12. Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces through Somatic, Arts-based Methods - Ewa Łączkowska
13. An Invitation to Who? - Maria Vlachou
14. The Third Space Walk: An Approach to Understanding Analogue-digital Urban Spaces - Mirjana Mitrović
15. From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research - Lisa Weasel
Section III.2: Making
16. An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space - Erika Szymanski
17. Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the 'Brackish Waters' of Artistic Research - Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond
18. Reflexivity in Artistic Research and Visual Anthropology: Response to 'Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the "Brackish Waters" of Artistic Research' by Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond-Sanderien Verstappen
PART IV: Institutionalizing
19. On Institutions and Institutionalizing - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gámez
Section IV.1: Evaluating
20. Projected Reflexivity: Learnings from Two Reflexive Research Projects from-within, with-within and for-within - Karen Kastenhofer and Doris Allhutter
21. Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: From Challenges to Principles of Participatory Research Evaluation - Katja Mayer
22. Reflexivity, Avoid it Like the Plague? - Annie Y. Patrick
Section IV.2: Place
2.3 Coming Home to STS : Liminality of Research Positions as Mode of Reflexivity - Nikolaus Poechhacker and Sarah Schönbauer
24. A Better Place for Science and Technology Studies? The Art Studio as Heterotopia - Elaine Goldberg
25. Why Bogotá? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or: STS - Here and There - Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero
PART V: Revisiting Reflexivity
26. Snapshots of Reflexivity - Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz and Fredy Mora-Gámez
27. Rethinking Aesthetics, Ontologizing Reflexivity - Mike Michael and Alex Wilkie
28. Dear Steve: On the Contribution of Reflexivity to General Human Wellbeing and Liveability in the World beyond Research - Steve Woolgar
29. When Sally Met Steve: Virtual Reflexivity - Sally Wyatt
30. Whose Worlds Are More Liveable Now? Abandoning the Alienated 'Blah' - Fredy Mora-Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Sarah R. Davies and Andrea Schikowitz