Angelo Benozzo - Böcker

Knowledge Production in Material Spaces is a curation of the interventions that the authors undertook at a range of academic conferences since 2016. It problematizes disciplined practices and expectations governing academic conference spaces and generates new ways of thinking and doing conferences otherwise. The authors use posthuman, feminist materialist and post-qualitative theories to disrupt knowledge production in neoliberal and bureaucratic conferences spaces. The analysis they offer, and the rhizomatic writing and presentational styles they use, promote a form of educational activism through theory. They interrogate the conference space as a regulated, normalized and standardized mode of academic knowledge production – which they call the ‘AcademicConferenceMachine’ – and playfully subvert the dominant meanings and modes of conferences and workshops to show how we can better interact and produce research, with and for each other. The authors indicate how creative conference practices promote playful possibilities to imagine and produce knowledge differently.This book will appeal to audiences ranging from established professionals to early career scholars, doctoral and master’s students in Education and the social sciences.

Knowledge Production in Material Spaces is a curation of the interventions that the authors undertook at a range of academic conferences since 2016. It problematizes disciplined practices and expectations governing academic conference spaces and generates new ways of thinking and doing conferences otherwise. The authors use posthuman, feminist materialist and post-qualitative theories to disrupt knowledge production in neoliberal and bureaucratic conferences spaces. The analysis they offer, and the rhizomatic writing and presentational styles they use, promote a form of educational activism through theory. They interrogate the conference space as a regulated, normalized and standardized mode of academic knowledge production – which they call the ‘AcademicConferenceMachine’ – and playfully subvert the dominant meanings and modes of conferences and workshops to show how we can better interact and produce research, with and for each other. The authors indicate how creative conference practices promote playful possibilities to imagine and produce knowledge differently.This book will appeal to audiences ranging from established professionals to early career scholars, doctoral and master’s students in Education and the social sciences.

Doing Qualitative Research Critically: Disruptive Practices and New Materialist Entanglements interrogates practices of doing qualitative research in the social sciences. It inspires researchers to think differently about doing qualitative research and entering into contact with emergent methodologies of gathering, analysing and writing about social and organisational events.In advancing the critical agenda of qualitative methodologies, the authors introduce theoretical perspectives, such as poststructuralism, posthumanism and feminist new materialism to disrupt mainstream methodologies and develop more affirmative engagements with human/non-human relationalities. The problematization of qualitative research is achieved through introducing art pieces (painting, sculpture, architecture, poetry, film) to engage the reader at different levels: to generate emotions, and to provoke thoughts and reflections on the ethical and political character of qualitative research.This engaging book is an essential read for research students and researchers across the social sciences and humanities, interested in exploring the landscape of critical qualitative methodologies and experimenting with doing research differently.