1st Edition

In Conversation with Karen Barad Doings of Agential Realism

Edited By Karin Murris, Vivienne Bozalek Copyright 2023
206 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

206 Pages 66 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction: Glimpsing the Colours on the Palette: ° ’ " Slowing Down Together/Apart

Karin Murris and Vivienne Bozalek

Chapter Night Sky: Temporal Diffraction: A Constellation *** of ‘New’ Electrifying Insights in Conversation with Karen Barad

Vivienne Bozalek and Karin Murris

Chapter Black Blood Matters: Moving Human and Non-human Bodies from ‘Question & Answer’ to a ‘Pedagogy of Questioning’

Walter Kohan, Rose-Anne Reynolds and Karin Murris

Chapter Red: Re-membering as a Sacred Practice

Rose-Anne Reynolds

Chapter Red Ochre: Marking Time, Marking Bodies: Relations Matter

Theresa M. Giorza

Chapter Teal: Re-searching Research: Troubling Lines as a Worlding Practice

Joanne Peers

Chapter Ultramarine: On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages

Adrienne van Eeden-Wharton

Chapter Red Brown: Gestures for Engineering and Medical Education: Drawing on Our Barad Encounter

Siddique Motala and Veronica Mitchell

Chapter Orange: Diffracting Drawing

Kai Wood Mah and Patrick Lynn Rivers

Chapter Iridescent: Th/reading through Mull: Cutting a Fashion Theory Course Together-Apart

Nike Romano

(No)End: Rainbow Æffects: Diffracting Colours and Futures Pallets

Vivienne Bozalek and Karin Murris

Index

Biography

Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Emerita Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a teacher educator, grounded in academic philosophy and a postqualitative research paradigm. Her main interests are in posthuman child studies, philosophy in education, ethics and democratic pedagogies. www.karinmurris.com

Vivienne Bozalek is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University and Emerita Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests pertain to the political ethics of care and social justice, posthumanism and feminist new materialisms, innovative pedagogical practices in higher education, and postqualitative and participatory methodologies.

"In conversation with a generous South African research community, an ethics of re-turning and staying-with is beautifully unfolded on agential realist philosophy and concepts and a diverse empirical material."

Malou Juelskjær, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark

"This innovative collection of essays brings Karen Barad’s agential realism to life in the context of South African higher education. Drawing the reader in through playful, performative exchanges, the contributions creatively reimagine multidisciplinary research and rebuild pedagogical practices."

Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter, UK

"What does it mean to make agential realism a thinking, writing, and collaborative practice? The book addresses this question with immense care guided by deep concern for de/colonializing education in the South African context."

Magdalena Górska, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands