Reflexivity

Reflexivity as Entertainment: Early Novels and Recent Video Games

by Peter McDonald

with Christina Lupton, Mosaic (2010)

This essay compares self-reflexive devices in eighteenth century novels and contemporary video games. This comparison... more This essay compares self-reflexive devices in eighteenth century novels and contemporary video games. This comparison suggests a long history of popular entertainment that draws attention to its own mediation while challenging the more radical forms of self-consciousness that theorists have associated with anti-mimetic forms of narrative.

Intentionality and Developing Researcher Competence on a UK Masters Course: an Ecological Perspective on Research Education

by Juup Stelma

Co-authored with Dr Richard Fay (University of Manchester). This paper is accepted for publication in 'Studies in Higher Education'. A link to the online pre-publication version will be posted when this becomes available (probably in the late spring 2012).

Stelma, J. and Fay, R. (accepted, forthcoming) . Intentionality and developing researcher competence on a UK Masters course: an ecological perspective on research education. Studies in Higher Education.

This paper presents an ecological perspective on the developing researcher competence of participants in the research... more This paper presents an ecological perspective on the developing researcher competence of participants in the research education component of a professionally oriented Masters course. There is a particular focus on the intentionality (as in ‘purpose’) of the participants’ research education activity. The data used to develop the ecological perspective, and which at the same time is interpreted from this ecological perspective, consists of interactive, reflective and more product-like written outputs generated by two Masters course participants. The analysis reveals how the participants’ developing intentionality was shaped by a hybrid of professional and research-related influences, and how this developing intentionality affected the quality of the participants’ research education experience. The analysis, with its particular focus on intentionality, constitutes a further development of the ecological perspective on developing researcher competence proposed by Stelma (2011), and is intended also as a contribution to the emerging literature on ‘research education’ (Boud and Lee 2005).

Whose voice is speaking? Ethnography, pedagogy and dominance in research with children and young people

by Simon Bailey

Co-authored with Deirdre Duffy, presented at the Oxford Ethnography Conference in 2010.

Ethnographic research can often provide a useful and unique insight into the lived dynamics of work with children and... more Ethnographic research can often provide a useful and unique insight into the lived dynamics of work with children and young people in a variety of settings. By emphasising the importance of researching from the participant’s perspective and underlining the need for ‘subjects’ of study to be treated as active agents in the production of knowledge, ethnographic researchers are able to locate theoretical observations in their ‘natural’ settings. Additionally, by facilitating the co-creation of knowledge with participants, ethnographic research can also empower and give voice to groups who are frequently unable to make their voices heard. However, despite the importance of this approach and the benefits it can have, propagating ethnographic research as a means of representing the ‘lived experience’ and giving voice to participants is underlined by the assumption that these participants are inherently incapable of representing themselves and have no voice but that which is given to them. Though that may frequently be the case, it is important to recognise that, applying the arguments of feminist theorists such as Benhabib (1992) and Cornell (1995), such an approach can also reinforce the power relations which exclude these groups from the process of knowledge creation. That said, given this critique it is equally important to ask whether, incorporating a Foucauldian perspective, this is a naturalised and irreconcilable problem. On  the one hand ‘the best of intentions’ can become the ‘tools of oppression’, and yet, there are practices of freedom in the attempt to ‘change something in the minds of people’ (Foucault, 1988, p. 10).
 
This paper explores these issues within the context of two different research projects with children in a formal educational setting and young people involved in an informal youth participation initiative. By examining the dynamics of conducting an ethnographic research project in these settings and the role of the researcher as the dominant figure in the production and interpretation of information drawn from both these projects, we question firstly whether ethnographic research can really be described as ‘giving voice’ to vulnerable groups or as reinforcing pedagogies which exclude or remove their voices and, secondly, whether this is unavoidable. 

Continuing professional development through reflexive networks: Disrupting online communities of practice

by Gurmit Singh

Singh, G., McPherson, M. & Sandars, J. (2012). Continuing professional development through reflexive networks: Disrupting online communities of practice. Paper presented at ProPEL International Conference 2012, University of Stirling, UK, May 2012.

Más allá de la nación cubana: prácticas metaxtuales en el cine “callejero” de Esteban Insausti

by Santiago Juan-Navarro

Paper to be delivered at the II International Conference on Hispanic Metafiction, Université de Bourgogne, Dijon, France, June 21-22, 2012.

Tras el derrumbe de la industria cinematográfica cubana a finales del siglo XX (resultado de los cambios radicales... more Tras el derrumbe de la industria cinematográfica cubana a finales del siglo XX (resultado de los cambios radicales experimentados por el Cuba a partir del Periodo Especial), se ha producido en los últimos años un boom de películas independientes dentro de un contexto posnacional y globalizado.  Ann Marie Stock (On Location in Cuba 2009) se ha referido a este fenómeno como “Street Filmmaking” (“cine callejero”), ya que consiste en producciones realizadas al margen de la industria estatal y con una increíble precariedad de medios. Aunque la calidad de estos filmes es desigual, como se desprende de la Muestra de Jóvenes Realizadores que tiene lugar cada año en La Habana, destaca la obra profundamente innovadora de Esteban Insausti. Filmes documentales como “Las manos y el ángel” (2002), sobre el pianista de jazz latino Emiliano Salvador, “La sed de mirar”, homenaje al fotógrafo Jorge Herrera, “Existen” (2005), construido sobre la base de entrevistas a “ilustres” locos de La Habana, el mediometraje de ficción “Luz roja”, integrado en el filme-tríptico Tres veces dos (2003), o su primer largometraje, Larga distancia (2009), rinden homenaje a la tradición vanguardista del cine cubano al mismo tiempo que reciclan elementos de la estética del video arte, la publicidad y los video clips musicales dentro de una mirada interrogadora que busca desmarcarse de los mitos nacionales del origen que durante más de 50 años marcaron obsesivamente la producción del ICAIC (el Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industrias Cinematográficas). En mi ponencia analizaré esta paradójica amalgama de apropiación de modelos autóctonos y foráneos dentro de una cinematografía que tiende a alejarse de las imposiciones del aparato cultural del Estado para reafirmar su identidad en la subjetividad del autor.

Organizational learning, circularity and double-linking

by Georges Romme

Published in: Management Learning, 1997

In recent writings on organizational learning, an interesting debate between proponents of team learning and those... more In recent writings on organizational learning, an interesting debate between proponents of team learning and those defending hierarchy as an essential condition for learning has developed. Here it is argued that teams appear to be the key learning units in organizations, but hierarchies are necessary to store and accumulate important learning results. Thus, in larger organizations teams must be integrated into some kind of hierarchy. Several authors have dealt with the problem of combining the benefits of both hierarchical and team-like structures. Attempts by Likert and Ackoff to combine the benefits of both hierarchical and team structures are based on the ideas of circularity and the (single) linking pin. A further elaboration of these solutions involves the idea of double-linking, as it is used in several Dutch organizations. Double-linking between teams provides the kind of vertical linkages which support and safeguard upward as well as downward information processing. As such, through the principle of double-linking organizations may become reflexive learning organizations.

Hatcher, J. (Alias for Leggatt-Cook, C., Madden, H., Cain, T., Sheridan, J., Munro, R., Tse, S-C., Jeon, H., & Chamberlain, K.) (2011). Collective reflexivity: Researchers in play [A play in one act]. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 8(3), 223-246.

by Kerry Chamberlain

DOI:10.1080/14780880903370064

Characters
JAN, battle-scarred academic
RUTH, visiting scholar
DYLAN, eternal student, pub quiz... more Characters
JAN, battle-scarred academic
RUTH, visiting scholar
DYLAN, eternal student, pub quiz champion
HUGO, ex-counsellor turned academic
ARIEL, Gemini, new to the game
JACK S. HATCHER, always has the last word

Time
The present.

Setting
A rather bare research room in a university, table and chairs, whiteboard and cluttered noticeboard on walls, half-empty bookcase with books and filing boxes, two computers and a telephone on another table in a back corner.

Scene One
The stage is in darkness. Around the table, motionless, sit JAN, HUGO, RUTH and DYLAN. Cups and glasses, books, journal articles, pens and papers are scattered over the table, along with an open laptop computer.

JACK S. HATCHER enters through the audience, shadowed by a soft spotlight, carrying a voice recorder and notepad. He walks slowly on stage, goes behind the table, checks his notepad and watch, takes a breath, and goes to within a few feet of the table. He turns on the voice recorder and speaks into it.

∗Jack S. Hatcher is an alias for Chez Leggatt-Cook, Joanna Sheridan, Helen Madden, Trudie Cain, Ros Munro, Siu-Chun Tse, Hyunok Jeon, and Kerry Chamberlain.

Transforming identities and enacting agency: the discourses of participatory development in training South African adult educators

by Caroline Kerfoot

A Comparative Analysis of Russian and Canadian Sociologies of Science and Technology

by Gregory Sandstrom

Sociology of Science and Technology, Vol 2. No. 1, 2011, excerpt from dissertation "A Comparative Analysis of Sociology as a Scientific and Academic Discipline in Russia and Canada" (2010)

Keywords:
Scientificity, Philosophicity, History and Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutic Turn, Science Studies,... more Keywords:
Scientificity, Philosophicity, History and Philosophy of Science, Hermeneutic Turn, Science Studies, Reflexive Science, Positive Science, Sociology of Science and Technology, Sociology as a Scientific and Academic Discipline

Research, practice, and the space between: Care of the self within neoliberalised institutions

by Dallas Rogers

Cultural Studies <=> Critical Methodologies, 2012 (draft only)

This article challenges the neoliberal discourse of “instrumental rationality” that is encroaching on theories of... more This article challenges the neoliberal discourse of “instrumental rationality” that is encroaching on theories of qualitative research, critical reflection, and subjectivity. I return to Foucault’s historical ontology of the self and the ancient Athenian precept care of the self to show that critical reflection and rationality have never been mutually exclusive. I put the care of the self metaphor to empirical use by examining the practical and ethical issues that emerged when I transitioned from a state-sponsored frontline employee working with public housing tenants, to a university researcher investigating public housing tenant participation in a state-sponsored urban redevelopment project. The focus is on my experiences as a practitioner-researcher working within two neoliberalized institutions, while also constructing a performative research ethic to mount a challenge against the politics of neoliberal “evidence” in the space between.

Motherhood, migration and methodology: Giving voice to the “other”.

by Ruth DeSouza

De Souza, R. (2004). Motherhood, migration and methodology: Giving voice to the “other”. The Qualitative Report. 9 (3), 463-482.

This paper discusses the need for multi-cultural methodologies that develop knowledge about the maternity experience... more This paper discusses the need for multi-cultural methodologies that develop knowledge about the maternity experience of migrant women and that are attuned to women’s maternity-related requirements under multi-cultural conditions. Little is known about the transition to parenthood for mothers in a new country, particularly when the country is New Zealand. This paper will challenge the positivist hegemony of previously completed research on migrant women by reflecting on my own experience as a researcher grounded in a broadly–based, pluralistic set of critical epistemologies that allowed me to uncover the issues and contexts that impacted on the experience of migrant women. It concludes by proposing that, where research occurs with minority groups, multiple research strategies are incorporated in order to prevent the reproduction of deficiency discourses. Key words: Migration, Motherhood, Methodology, Reflexivity, Methodological Pluralism, Goa (India) and New Zealand

Reflexive Prozesse bei der Jazzimprovisation (Draft)

by Alessandro Bertinetto

Forthcoming in Sinnliche Reflexivität. Zur sinnlichen Dimension der Künste, Hgg. von Georg Bertram, Daniel M. Feige und Frank Ruda, Berlin, diaphanes, c.s. (2012).

Genèse et récursivité: la déduction des catégories dans la Doctrine de la Science 1805 de J.G. Fichte, in “Révue de Métaphisique et de Morale”, N°4 (octobre) 2007, pp. 521-553.

by Alessandro Bertinetto

Riflessione e riflessibilità: il rapporto tra logica trascendentale e dottrina della scienza nella prima Transscendentale Logik di J. G. Fichte (aprile-agosto 1812), in «Annuario Filosofico 1999 (15)», Milano, Mursia, 2000, pp. 249-294.

by Alessandro Bertinetto

La traición de las imágenes: mecanismos y estrategias retóricas de la falsificación audiovisual (Betrayal of images: mechanisms and rhetorical strategies of audiovisual falsification)

by Alberto N. García

Article published in "Zer. Revista de Estudios de Comunicación", 22, 2007, pp. 301-322.

Audiovisual forgery is a filmic practice –which has undergone a certain rise since the mid-1970s– that simulates... more Audiovisual forgery is a filmic practice –which has undergone a certain rise since the mid-1970s– that simulates aesthetic modes and the strategies of discursive construction of the documentary genre. Together with this stylistic appropriation, the fake also proposes a self-reflexive meditation on the limits of representation, the credibility of the image and its potentially lying and manipulative character. This article approaches the phenomenon from a historical perspective in order to then define the reflexive, poetic and rhetorical characteristics that define it.

Worlding Beyond the Self? IR, the Subject, and the Cartesian Anxiety.

by Inanna Hamati-Ataya

Forthcoming in Worlding Beyond the West, Volume 3: Claiming the International, edited by Arlene B. Tickner and David L. Blaney. NY: Routledge.

2008, Comment mener une ethnographie au Chiapas? Entre engagements et désengagements sur un terrain fortement politisé, Altérités. Penser l'engagement, vol.5, n°2, consultable en ligne

by Sabrina Melenotte

in Altérités. Penser l'engagement, vol.5, n°2, 2008

Résumé :

Mon ethnographie porte sur un municipe de l’État du Chiapas, San Pedro Chenalhó (Mexique), qui... more Résumé :

Mon ethnographie porte sur un municipe de l’État du Chiapas, San Pedro Chenalhó (Mexique), qui connut une transition politique accélérée et violente dix ans avant l’étude. La récente commémoration du dixième anniversaire du massacre d’Actéal et sa surmédiatisation ont fait ressurgir des débats théoriques et juridiques, amenant intellectuels et journalistes à s’engager et à se positionner entre deux pôles extrêmes. Ces positionnements politiques et idéologiques transparaissent dans les travaux académiques. Je montre qu’il est alors difficile d’arriver sur un terrain si balisé sans mener un travail de réflexivité sur la manière de s’engager, tant par rapport aux idéologies dominantes que sur des questions directement méthodologiques.

Abstract :

My ethnography focuses on a municipality in the State of Chiapas, San Pedro Chenalhó, which underwent an accelerated and violent political transition fifteen years ago. The commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the Acteal Massacre and its intense media coverage led to the resurfacing of theoretical and juridical debates, with intellectuals and journalists committing themselves and taking a stand between two opposing viewpoints. These political and ideological stances become obvious in their academic works. I aim to show how difficult it is to venture into such a framed field without undertaking the work of reflexivity on the way to involve oneself, both in terms of dominant ideologies as well as straightforward methodological questions.

Ethnographic Field Notes and Reflexivity

by Päivi Eriksson

Co-authored with Susan Meriläinen and Elina Henttonen

Confesiones de un profesor universitario: La urgencia de la reflexividad

by J. Fernando Galindo

Presentación realizada en el “III Congreso Internacional de Docencia Universitaria: Innovación en la Docencia” realizado en Cochabamba, Bolivia entre el 11 y 12 julio de 2009.

Presentation at the III International Congress in University Teaching "Innovation en teaching" Cochabamba, Bolivia July 11th and 12th, 2009.

En este ensayo reflexiono sobre el significado de ser profesor universitario en un contexto diverso como el de... more En este ensayo reflexiono sobre el significado de ser profesor universitario en un contexto diverso como el de Bolivia.

In this essay I reflect on the meaning of being a university professor in a cultural diverse context as Bolivia.

IR Theory as International Practice/Agency: A Clinical-Cynical Bourdieusian Perspective

by Inanna Hamati-Ataya

Millennium: Journal of International Studies, 40(3). 2012

Adopting a reflexive, praxeological understanding of science that rejects the objectivist epistemic antinomy of theory... more Adopting a reflexive, praxeological understanding of science that rejects the objectivist epistemic antinomy of theory and practice, this paper offers two complementary Bourdieusian readings of IR Theory that specifically aim to conceptualise the structural position of "periphery" scholars, as well as their extant and potential "space of possibilities" in the discipline. Grounded in a sociological appraisal of IR, the "clinical" approach objectivates IR as a field of international practice wherein the production of theoretical knowledge results from the meeting of different socio-academic habitus and their associated positions, with the objective structures of IR and the international system. It highlights the relation between IR Theory and the structural (dis)positions of its authors, the conditions that allow some theories to be objectively possible, meaningful, structuring representations of the world, and the structural constraints imposed on IR theorists. The "cynical" approach suggests how a "clinical" understanding of IR can help marginalised, "periphery" scholars make sense of their "space of possibilities" within the discipline, and develop a praxeological, reflexive attitude that could turn them into efficient international agents capable of promoting different scholarly perspectives. More specifically, the paper argues that their non-native habitus is a potentially subversive capital - and hence a potential agency of structural change.