Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship : Critical Posthuman Methodological Perspectives in Education

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'Intimate scholarship'refers to qualitative methodologies, such as self-study and autoethnography, that directly engage the personal experience, knowledge, and/or practices of the researcher(s) as the focus of inquiry. While intimate scholarship offers entrypoints into non-binary thinking by blurring the line between researcher/researched, much work in this genre continues to reinforce a humanist'I'. In this volume, we ask what happens when the researcher in forms of intimate scholarship is decentered, or is considered as merely one part of an entangled material-discursive formation. Chapters in this volume highlight ways that researchers of teaching and teacher education can advance conversations in education while exploring theories with an ontological view of the world as fundamentally multiple, dynamic, and fluid. Drawing on a range of methods, authors'put to work'posthuman, non-linear, and multiplistic theories and concepts to disrupt and decenter the'I'in intimate methodologies. Also featured in this volume are conversations with leading posthuman scholars, who highlight the possibilities and challenges of decentering the researcher in intimate scholarship as a practice of social justice research. Front Cover Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship: Critical Posthuman Methodological Perspectives in Education Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Introduction: Decentering the Researcher in Intimate Scholarship Intimate Scholarship Post-Human Materialist Intimate Scholarship References Affective Reverberations: The Methodological Excesses of a Research Assemblage Theoretical Approach Rhizomes Assemblage Affect Methodology Context and Participants Data Collection and Analysis Emergent Understandings Personal / Pedagogical Affective Distributions Affective Contemplations/Convictions Affective Resemblance Discussion Conclusion References Teaching in, Relating in, and Researching in Online Teaching: The Desiring Cartographies of Two Second Language Teacher Educator Becomings Entering in the Middle An Immanent Perspective on Becoming an Online L2 Teacher Educator Relating in the Research Agencement Experimentation through Rhizoanalysis: The Use of Vignettes Method Collection of the Field Material Becoming Vignettes The Rhizoanalyses of Three Vignettes Vignette 1: When Desire and a Tumble Connect Vignette 2: The Desire to Become Technologically Present Vignette 3: No Hiding Anymore Opening Exiting in the Middle Notes References We, Monsters: An Autoethnographic Literature Review of Experiences in Doctoral Education Programs (Kind Of) Introduction A (Post-)Monstrous Position Monstrous Methodology Monstrous “Lostings” Surviving the Monster Mastering the Monster Producing the Monster Monsters in the Field What Comes Next? Conclusion Notes References [That Legitimize our Writing and Get it Published] Decentering The “Self” in Self-Study of Professional Practices: A Working Research Assemblage Introduction The Nature of Self-Study of Professional Practices “Thinking with” Deleuze and Guattari’s Philosophy Assembling and Unfolding a Self-Study “Plugging in” Assemblage and the Data The Research Assemblage Function and Production Process of Decentering the “Self” Becoming a Self-study Importance of Process Conceptualizing “Self” as a Process of Coming into Composition References New Materialist Auto-Ethico-Ethnography: Agential-Realist Authenticity and Objectivity in Intimate Scholarship New Materialist Auto-ethico-ethnography: Agential-realist Authenticity and Objectivity in Intimate Scholarship Opening Thought Conceptual Framework: New Materialist Ontology Autoethnographical Method Diffractive Learnings Agential-realist Authenticity: Toward a Non-representationalist Voice Agential-realist Objectivity: Writing Auto-Ethico-Ethnography Data as Diffractive Phenomena Reliability as Axiological Intra-actions Non-clusion: Auto-ethico-ethnography as a Turn towards Posthuman Social Inquiry References Narrative Mining: Story, Assemblage, and the Troubling of Identity Theoretical Approach Summary of Study Methods Findings and Understandings: Part One Findings and Understandings: Part Two Methodological, Theoretical, and Practical Significance References The Luxury of Vulnerability: Reflexive Inquiry as Privileged Praxis Exhuming the Ghosts of Humanism in the Mirror Moving Through Mirrors: Reflection and Multiplicitous Selves The Luxury of Vulnerability: Reflexivity-as-Event Within the Cracks of Humanism Notes References The Rhizomes of Academic Practice: Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students Negotiating Learning and Belonging Being and Becoming Rhizomatic Becoming Method Data Collection and Analysis The Process of Being and Becoming Rhizomatic Reimaginations/Desiring Difference Decentered Researcher Becomings Acknowledgment References Pedagogy, Naked and Belated: Disappointment as Curriculum Inquiry The Research Scene Openings Naked Pedagogy: Wanting and Missing the Story Belated Pedagogy Closings A Post-Script: Posthuman Disappointments Disappointment and Inquiry References Art as a “Thing That Does”: Creative Assemblages, Expressive Lines of Flight, and Becoming Cosmic-Artisan in Teacher Education Introduction Flows and Multiplicities Collaboration Animals Exhibition Cosmic Artisans Conclusion References Becoming-with/in Educational Research: Minor Accounts as Care-full Inquiry Intuitive Trouble Minority Among Majority in Qualitative Research Care-Full Movements Minor Account(s) One Account of June by Maria A Second Account of June by June A Third Account of Becoming-with/in the (Re)search with Maria by June Minor and Major Shadows Becoming-with/in Models That Model References Affirmative Ethics, Posthuman Subjectivity, and Intimate Scholarship: A Conversation with Rosi Braidotti References Decentering Subjectivity After Descartes: A Conversation with Michael Peters References Encounters and Materiality in Intimate Scholarship: A Conversation with Maggie MacLure Note References Deleuzo-Guattarian Decentering of the I/eye: A Conversation with Jessica Ringrose and Shiva Zarabadi References About the Authors Index