In Conversation with Karen Barad

Doings of Agential Realism

Karin Murris, Vivienne Bozalek, Karin Murris, Vivienne Bozalek

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000811728
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Psychology

In Conversation with Karen Barad: Doings of Agential Realism is an accessible introduction to Karen Barad's agential realist philosophy. The authors take on a unique approach to involve the readers in in/formal conversations between Karen, postgraduate and other researchers at a research event held in 2017 at Cape Town, South Africa.

It features chapters that have been contributed by seminar delegates and organisers, which put forth the continuing impact that Karen Barad has had on their empirical work, research writing and drawing practices. The text further discusses the ethical and political significance of Karen's work, especially in the context of de/colonizing South African higher education. The chapters offer a series of worked posthumanist pedagogical examples and describe how a research seminar was organised differently and more in line with Baradian radical philosophy. At its heart, this book makes a methodological and pedagogical contribution to the surge in literature on agential realism, whilst simultaneously challenging dominant research binaries and arguing for a more egalitarian way of working together in knowledge-creation by troubling human and more-than-human hierarchies. The book's uniqueness is further fortified through its description of in/formal conversations, which are diffracted through chapters, a doing of agential realism to reconfigure relationships between lecturer and student, expert and novice, supervisor and supervised, researcher and research participants. These radical conversations are dis/continuing.

This book will be invaluable for students and individuals interested in advancing their understanding of agential realism and Karen Barad's influence at large, as well as students and scholars interested in postqualitative methods in all disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Glimpsing the Colours on the Palette: °’” Slowing Down Together/Apart
• Chapter Night Sky Temporal Diffraction: A Constellation *** of ‘New’ Electrifying Insights in Conversation with Karen Barad
• Chapter Black Blood Matters Moving Human and Non-human Bodies from ‘Question & Answer’ to a ‘Pedagogy of Questioning’
• Chapter Red Re-membering as a Sacred Practice
• Chapter Red Ochre Marking Time, Marking Bodies: Relations Matter
• Chapter Teal Re-searching Research: Troubling Lines as a Worlding Practice
• Chapter Ultramarine On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages
• Chapter Red Brown Gestures for Engineering and Medical Education: Drawing on Our Barad Encounter
• Chapter Orange Diffractive Drawing
• Chapter Iridescent Th/reading through Mull: Cutting a Fashion Theory Course Together-Apart
• (No)End Rainbow Æffects: Diffracting Colours and Futures Pallets
• Index