Of Other Thoughts: Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate [recurso electrónico] A Guidebook for Candidates and Supervisors

Of Other Thoughts offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research—transcultural, post-colonial, trans-disciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, Of Other Thoughts provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society. Barbara Bolt | Associate Professor and Associate Director of Research and Research Training | The Victorian College of the Arts |University of Melbourne | Australia These writings are essential reading for all PhD students interested in making their critical work count for more. They examine multiple sites where conservative politics and ethics, institutional regulations, culturally constrained supervisory practices, and disciplinary boundary maintenance run counter to the radical and transforming potential of critical PhD work. Graham Hingangaroa Smith | Distinguished Professor | Vice-Chancellor/Chief Executive Officer | Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi| Whakatāne | Aotearoa – New Zealand This book makes a distinctive and valuable contribution to the growing literature on doctoral education. Readers will find a wonderfully diverse collection of perspectives on non-traditional paths to the PhD. The book synthesises theory with practice in a highly effective and engaging manne r. It sets doctoral experiences in their broader cultural, political and intellectual contexts, and addresses epistemological and methodological questions with fresh insight. Of Other Thoughts will appeal to students and supervisors in a range of different fields and deserves a wide international readership. Peter Roberts | Professor of Education, University of Canterbury | Christchurch | Aotearoa – New Zealand Front Matter....Pages i-xii Non-Traditional Ways to the Doctorate....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 Ruku – Dive....Pages 17-22 Western “Sentences That Push” as an Indigenous Method for Thinking....Pages 23-26 A “Psychedelic Method”....Pages 27-33 Fantasy, Resistance and Passion as Important Aspects of the Doctoral Writing Process....Pages 35-38 Unaware That I was Walking Backwards....Pages 39-42 Contributing to the Field of Design Research....Pages 43-46 The Trademan’s Door to the Ivory Tower....Pages 47-50 Sticky Advice for Research Students....Pages 51-52 Spaces of Other Thought....Pages 53-66 Culture as a Place of Thought....Pages 67-82 Transfer and Translation....Pages 83-99 The Colour of Thought....Pages 101-114 Transforming the Academic Field....Pages 115-129 Queer as a Two-Bob Watch....Pages 131-146 Anxieties of Knowing....Pages 147-162 Emerging Knowledge, Translation of Thought....Pages 163-179 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Alternative Design Doctorates as Drivers for New Forms of Research....Pages 183-202 Thought out of Bounds....Pages 203-220 Thinking Through Moving Image and Performance....Pages 221-238 Front Matter....Pages 181-181 Thinking Through Art, Creating Through Text....Pages 239-257 Spaces Between Indigenous and Non-Indigenous Knowledge Systems....Pages 259-278 “Not all Academics Can Do it”....Pages 279-296 A Creative Journey: By Māori For Māori....Pages 297-309 Emergent Knowledges and Non-Traditional Candidates....Pages 311-323 Back Matter....Pages 325-335 This book offers a path-breaking critique of the traditions underpinning doctoral research. Working against the grain of traditional research orthodoxies, graduate researchers (almost all from Indigenous, transnational, diasporic, coloured, queer and ethnic minorities) AND their supervisors offer insights into non-traditional and emergent modes of research--transcultural, post-colonial, trans-disciplinary and creative practice-led. Through case studies and contextualizing essays, the book provides a unique guide to doctoral candidates and supervisors working with different modes of research. More radically, its questioning of traditional assumptions about the nature of the literature review, the genealogy of research practices, and the status and structuring of the thesis creates openings for alternative modes of researching. It gives our emerging researchers the courage to differ and challenges the University to take up its public role as critic and conscience of society