Revisiting Reflexivity

Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-5292-4487-8
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 408 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

R Davies, Sarah

Schikowitz, Andrea

Mora Gámez, Fredy

Goldberg, Elaine

Dessewffy, Esther

Pham, Bao-Chau

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Avkiran, Ariadne

Gregory, Kathleen

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 Laczkowska

13. An Invitation to Who? - Maria Vlachou

14. The Third Space Walk: An Approach to Understanding Analogue-digital Urban Spaces - Mirjana Mitrovic

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

Über Autor(innen)

Gregory, Kathleen
Kathleen Gregory is Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.

Goldberg, Elaine
Elaine Goldberg is a researcher and filmmaker.

Schikowitz, Andrea
Andrea Schikowitz is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Pham, Bao-Chau
Bao-Chau Pham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Dessewffy, Esther
Esther Dessewffy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Mora Gámez, Fredy
Fredy Mora Gámez is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

R Davies, Sarah
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Avkiran, Ariadne
Ariadne Avkiran is a PhD student and a sowi:doc fellow (2023) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Andrea Schikowitz is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Fredy Mora-Gámez is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Elaine Goldberg is a researcher and filmmaker.

Esther Dessewffy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Bao-Chau Pham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Ariadne Avkiran is a PhD student and a sowi:doc fellow (2023) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Kathleen Gregory is Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.