Posthumanist Research and Writing as Agentic Acts of Inclusion (Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research)

Posthumanist Research and Writing as Agentic Acts of Inclusion: Knowledge Forced Open looks at the true value and possibilities of 'learning' and knowledge within the emerging field of New Public Governance by examining, through a posthumanist lens and other perspectives, the paradoxical knowledge situation we are in today. This book addresses the constitution of knowledge as an uncertain process, understanding text as spaces for entanglements of knowledge – knowledge not as certainty but as uncertainty – and writing as the act and art of engaging with these entanglements. Through examining research from multiple perspectives, text, stories as narrative are constructed as data – showing ethnographic engagements between writers, readers and texts. The authors show how to construct messy entanglements of continual, always already constant thinking and becomings, through the art and science of research and writing as knowledging processes. Suitable for scholars of posthumanist thinking in Education and the social sciences, this book challenges the academy to look at new ways of thinking with and through knowledge and showing the importance of such processes. Cover Endorsement Page Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Table of Contents Introduction to the series Preface Searchability Section I: Theoretical and philosophical groundwork on knowledge and knowability Chapter 1: Introducing our riddling for knowledging Section I : Theoretical and philosophical groundwork on knowledge and knowability Section II : The actioning of theoretical thinking and knowledging: minor fugitive research policies and becoming designs Section III : Futures governing presents: new space-time domains for ‘tentative-isms’ Chapter 2: Writing and text as a response to the complexity and uncertainty of knowledge Uncertainty critical aspect of knowing Speaking out my uncertainty as an early career researcher Multi-versing science and theories of knowledge Uncertainty even as we write our text Text as space for entanglements of knowledge: writing as doing philosophy Text as living spaces for the entanglement of knowledge processes Chapter 3: Ontologies of indeterminacy and freedom The promise of precision education governance Ideological majority dangers of governance Minor politics, language of events and only ideal Minoring governance A point of spiralling and a hub for thinking back and writing forward Constitution of subjectivity, freedom and pedagogies for immediacy and agency Chapter 4: Authoring agency: Force and flow: the paradox of slow and space Writing/texts/data with/in space and the intra-connections between human and non-human Writing: agentic and affect Writing as method and methodology Section II: The actioning of theoretical thinking and knowledging: Minor fugitive research policies and becoming-designs Speaking out my defiance as a teacher educator (A story from Anne) Notes Chapter 5: Minor research policies and inclusive educational becoming designs Adventuring the idea of inclusion and becoming designs Writing an inclusive becoming researcher design A methodological festival and procedurality Chapter 6: Becoming technologists: Thinking grids and/of orientation Minor digitalisation practices; knowledging across computers Good storytellers have never been more important Storying fuzzy in the sticky sparkling now Expanding our emotional registers in/for automated futures and eventicising algorithms Section III: Futures governing presents: New space-time domains for ‘tentative-isms’ Chapter 7: Working our ‘tentative-isms’ in the knowledge academy: Education for fugitive futures Positively against ethics Searvelatnja and the taxi driver Chapter 8: Re-authoring methodologies A Möbius strip for openings and wings Multi-versing for sustainable actioning Riddling for re-authoring as learning academics Forgetting myself The clown and the princesses Moving on with re-authoring practices ... Chapter 9: Hanging upside down for another retake with Aion and Eros both Thinking thinkers writing Mackenzie’s story: “As long as it does not stop you” Notes References Index This book looks at the true value of 'learning' and the emerging field of New Public Governance by examining through a critical posthumanist lens the paradoxical knowledge situation we are in today.