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This book develops an approach to both method and the
socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces
our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the
transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it
engages readers. It presents a creative survey of some of the
newest developments in critical research methods and critical
pedagogy that together go beyond the aims of knowledge transfer
that often structure our practices. Each contribution takes on a
different shape, tone and orientation, and discusses a critical
method or approach, teasing out the ways in which it can also work
as a transformative practice. While the presentation of different
methods is both rigorously practice-based and specific,
contributors also offer reflections on the stakes of critical
engagement and how it may play an important role in expanding and
subverting existing regimes of intelligibility. Contributions
variously address the following key questions: What makes your
research method important? How can others work with it? How has
research through this method and/or the way you ended up deploying
it transformed you and/or your practice? How did it matter for
thinking about community, (academic) collaboration, and sharing
'knowledge'? This volume makes the case for re-politicizing the
importance of research and the transformative potentials of
research methods not only in 'accessing' the world as an object of
study, but as ways of acting and being in the world. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of international relations,
critical theory, research methods and politics in general.
This book develops an approach to both method and the
socio-political implications of knowledge production that embraces
our embeddedness in the world that we study. It seeks to enact the
transformative potentials inherent in this relationship in how it
engages readers. It presents a creative survey of some of the
newest developments in critical research methods and critical
pedagogy that together go beyond the aims of knowledge transfer
that often structure our practices. Each contribution takes on a
different shape, tone and orientation, and discusses a critical
method or approach, teasing out the ways in which it can also work
as a transformative practice. While the presentation of different
methods is both rigorously practice-based and specific,
contributors also offer reflections on the stakes of critical
engagement and how it may play an important role in expanding and
subverting existing regimes of intelligibility. Contributions
variously address the following key questions: What makes your
research method important? How can others work with it? How has
research through this method and/or the way you ended up deploying
it transformed you and/or your practice? How did it matter for
thinking about community, (academic) collaboration, and sharing
'knowledge'? This volume makes the case for re-politicizing the
importance of research and the transformative potentials of
research methods not only in 'accessing' the world as an object of
study, but as ways of acting and being in the world. It will be of
interest to students and scholars of international relations,
critical theory, research methods and politics in general.
This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of
International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential
of experimental writing as an alternative source of 'knowledge' and
political imagination within the modern university and the
contemporary structures of neoliberal government. It unlocks and
foregrounds the power of writing as a site of resistance and a
vehicle of transformation that is fundamentally grounded in
reflexivity, self-crafting and an ethos of care. In an attempt to
cultivate new sensibilities to habitual academic practice the
project re-appropriates the skill of writing for envisioning and
enacting what it might mean to be working in the discipline of IR
and inhabiting the usual spaces and scenes of academic life
differently. The practice of experimental writing that intuitively
unfolds and develops in the book makes an important methodological
intervention into conventional social scientific inquiry both
regarding the politics of writing and knowledge production as well
as the role and position of the researcher. The formal innovations
of the book include the actualization and creative remaking of the
Foucaultian genre of the 'experience book,' which seeks to
challenge scholarly routine and offers new experiences and modes of
perception as to what it might mean to 'know' and to be a 'knowing
subject' in our times. The book will be of interest to researchers
engaged in critical and creative research methods (particularly
narrative writing, autobiography, storytelling, experimental and
transformational research), Foucault studies and philosophy, as
well as critical approaches to contemporary government and studies
of resistance.
This book emerges from within the everyday knowledge practices of
International Relations (IR) scholarship and explores the potential
of experimental writing as an alternative source of 'knowledge' and
political imagination within the modern university and the
contemporary structures of neoliberal government. It unlocks and
foregrounds the power of writing as a site of resistance and a
vehicle of transformation that is fundamentally grounded in
reflexivity, self-crafting and an ethos of care. In an attempt to
cultivate new sensibilities to habitual academic practice the
project re-appropriates the skill of writing for envisioning and
enacting what it might mean to be working in the discipline of IR
and inhabiting the usual spaces and scenes of academic life
differently. The practice of experimental writing that intuitively
unfolds and develops in the book makes an important methodological
intervention into conventional social scientific inquiry both
regarding the politics of writing and knowledge production as well
as the role and position of the researcher. The formal innovations
of the book include the actualization and creative remaking of the
Foucaultian genre of the 'experience book,' which seeks to
challenge scholarly routine and offers new experiences and modes of
perception as to what it might mean to 'know' and to be a 'knowing
subject' in our times. The book will be of interest to researchers
engaged in critical and creative research methods (particularly
narrative writing, autobiography, storytelling, experimental and
transformational research), Foucault studies and philosophy, as
well as critical approaches to contemporary government and studies
of resistance.
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