Developing a Postindustrial Methodology: Posthumanism as (Transdisciplinary) Educative Endeavor

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 18
  In Roundtable Session: Post-Time, Post-Phenomenon, Post-Industrial Methodology

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore what posthumanist research practices offer for developing a post-industrial methodology. The notion of a ‘post-industrial methodology’ emerged as we pondered attunements to place, landscape, and environment as we travelled through our respective post-industrial cities (one in the UK, and the other in the US). This paper explores how the elemental, vitalist life of post-industrial places—water, steel, rubble, weeds, animals, litter—shape bodies of all kinds, produce affective flows that are uncanny and unbidden, and incarnate politics and history in the ‘now’ of the moving body. Enacting post-industrial methodology invited us to diffract photo-elicitation as data-collection method and work through what a posthuman methodology as (transdisciplinary) educative endeavour might entail.

Authors

• Carol A. Taylor, Sheffield Hallam University

• Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University