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View article: Creative-Relational Inquiry: Institutional Threat, Fortitude, and Flying Like a Brick
Creative-Relational Inquiry: Institutional Threat, Fortitude, and Flying Like a Brick Open
Creative-relational inquiry has what is called a “center,” the Center for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI, Sea~cry), at the University of Edinburgh. We are two of the center’s co-directors. Sea~cry is an institution within an institution…
View article: Not All That <i>Post</i>, Not All That <i>New</i>: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality
Not All That <i>Post</i>, Not All That <i>New</i>: The Disruption of Challenging Coloniality Open
What happens when, as scholars who have habitually been working with posthumanism and the new materialisms, we find ourselves summoned by thinkers who critique the covert coloniality present in these approaches? This work is the result of …
View article: Tami Spry: The Force of (Co-)Performing
Tami Spry: The Force of (Co-)Performing Open
In this short article, we work with the notion of Tami Spry as force. There is a tension here: We have come to recognize, both through the writing of this article and through our many years of encountering both Tami herself and Tami’s work…
View article: Between-ing: Collaborative Writing and the Unfoldings of Relational Space
Between-ing: Collaborative Writing and the Unfoldings of Relational Space Open
In conversation with Claire Parnet, Deleuze is quoted as saying, “(w)e were only two, but what was important for us was less our working together than this strange fact of working between the two of us.” Deleuze’s concept of “between-the-t…
View article: The Fires We Made, the Fires that Made Us
The Fires We Made, the Fires that Made Us Open
The authors of this essay ventured into the Scottish outdoors together for the weekend in September 2020. They made fires to gather ’round in the early autumn darkness. Here they return to these fires as they introduce the essays in this c…
View article: ‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World
‘Already Given Over’: Activism in Inquiry and in the World Open
This is the second of two part-issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. The first focused upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), and this second focuses upon activism in the process…
View article: Intimacy as Inquiry: Collaborative Reading and Writing With Deleuze and Guattari
Intimacy as Inquiry: Collaborative Reading and Writing With Deleuze and Guattari Open
This article performs the becoming intimacy of a reading (and, later, writing) group who met once a month for 2 years to discuss Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus. Through this collaborative piece, we explore the question of intim…
View article: Introduction to the Special Issue—Deleuze and Intimacy: Of Ontologies, Politics, and the Untamed
Introduction to the Special Issue—Deleuze and Intimacy: Of Ontologies, Politics, and the Untamed Open
This brief article traces the intersecting lines and stories of this special issue on Deleuze and intimacy. It offers a take how it found its way onto these pages after nearly 2 years and through two conference symposia, and outlines how t…
View article: Making Trouble With Ontogenesis: Collaborative Writing, Becoming, and Concept Forming as Event
Making Trouble With Ontogenesis: Collaborative Writing, Becoming, and Concept Forming as Event Open
Through the authors’ continuing creative encounters with practices of collaborative writing, this article offers a troubling of approaches to ontology that inform a construction of simply human selves and a constitution of Being. The artic…
View article: Remembering Sue: Last Writes
Remembering Sue: Last Writes Open
Sue Porter, 1954-2017, succeeded by her husband Glenn Hall, her brother Philip and her little old mum up in Minchinhampton; two red dogs, Morgan and Eric; multitudes of friends, colleagues and students; a murder of crows, a flight of cormo…
View article: Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics
Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics Open
In her 2015 paper, Towards a Politics of Whimsy: Yarn Bombing in the City, Joanna Mann argues for whimsy's capacity to prompt change. In this chapter, the authors think, write and play with notions of whimsy, drawing into their scrutiny an…
View article: Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue
Qualitative Inquiry, Activism, the Academy, and the Infinite Game: An Introduction to the Special Issue Open
This is the first of two special issues on qualitative inquiry as activism. This first issue focuses upon activism and/in the academy (academic work, academic cultures, academic practices, etc.), the second on activism in the processes of …
View article: Writing <i>With:</i> Collaborative Writing as Hope and Resistance
Writing <i>With:</i> Collaborative Writing as Hope and Resistance Open
Collaboration in scholarship holds the peculiar position of being expected, encouraged, and, in the process, somewhat taken-for-granted as monolithic academic practice. Collaboration is important for the cultivation of a rich ecosystem of …
View article: Three Lockdown Poems
Three Lockdown Poems Open
Three poems written during the period of “lockdown” in the UK in early 2020. Each poem works in, and responds to, the confluence of the personal, the material, and the socio-political.
View article: Material Turbulence: Stillness, Movement and the Work of the Lumen
Material Turbulence: Stillness, Movement and the Work of the Lumen Open
Donna Haraway asks us to attend to how interference patterns "can make a difference in how meanings are made and lived" (1997, p. 14). This essay creates a series of "studios" in which material signposts call us to dwell in and on the envi…
View article: Encountering Autoethnography
Encountering Autoethnography Open
Research Article| January 07 2020 Encountering Autoethnography: Of Fragments and Drawing Blood Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Wyatt University of Edinburgh Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed …
View article: Using Recess to Increase Focus and Interest in Middle School Students
Using Recess to Increase Focus and Interest in Middle School Students Open
The purpose of this study was to determine whether adding a recess component to class periods would improve students’ focus and interest in daily health lessons. Students’ feelings about the recess activities also were assessed to provide …
View article: Doing Justice
Doing Justice Open
In this article we argue that the contributions to this special issue are examples of the ‘acts of activism’ D. Soyini Madison (2010) speaks of. Such acts, though always late, are necessary and urgent as qualitative researchers seek for th…
View article: Article 50 and Beyond
Article 50 and Beyond Open
Written in early 2017, in the aftermath of the United Kingdom's vote in June 2016 to leave the European Union and the election, in November of that year, of Donald Trump to the U.S. presidency, this brief article argues for an activist sch…
View article: Meditations on a Green Light Bulb
Meditations on a Green Light Bulb Open
This essay is drawn from the author's book, Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry, which explores the connections between therapy, stand-up comedy, and writing as a method of inquiry. The essay …
View article: Autoethnography and Activism: Movement, Intensity, and Potential
Autoethnography and Activism: Movement, Intensity, and Potential Open
In this short article, we pay attention to what an autoethnography might do. In relationality, we understand autoethnographic practices as assembling and dissembling bodies that are active in always territorializing space and in world maki…
View article: Writing to it: creative engagements with writing practice in and with the not yet known in today’s academy
Writing to it: creative engagements with writing practice in and with the not yet known in today’s academy Open
© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’. Increasingly, we came to understand that the only way to conti…
View article: Working at the Wonder: Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
Working at the Wonder: Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry Open
This article offers a discussion concerning the future of collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. Taking the form of a dialogic exchange, we take up Isabelle Stengers’ notion of “wonder” as a creative and political lens through which…
View article: Calls of/to the Ordinary
Calls of/to the Ordinary Open
Research Article| December 01 2016 Calls of/to the Ordinary Jonathan Wyatt, Jonathan Wyatt Jonathan Wyatt is Senior Lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of Edinburgh. Correspondence to: Jonathan Wyatt, School of Heal…
View article: “Ian Schneider”
“Ian Schneider” Open
A poetic emergence of the particular—a particular place, day, time, moment, event—and its (extra)ordinary affect.
View article: Two Shits
Two Shits Open
This brief essay works and plays with “ordinary affect” as it flows amongst, through, and between two apparently different milieus—a university workplace and a comedy club.