Unfielding and Stitching Fields

• In Event: 45.095 - Sheraton Roundtable Seven - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 45.095-7 - Post-Qualitative Inquiring: Discussions on Transcripts, Writing, Fields, and Research

Abstract

The paper works to undercut the taken-for-granted assumptions about the field and its borders and boundaries. How might making boundaries fuzzy work to open up radical possibilities for knowledge production and becoming with/in fields. Extending de Freitas and Sinclair’s (2014) question, “when does a body become a body?,”  the paper “trouble[s] assumptions” (p. 16) and works the liminal spaces between and across field/research/researcher/researched. The paper takes seriously Haraway’s (2016) call that we “make kin in lines of inventive connection as a practice of learning to live and die well with each other” (p. 1) and considers how the way in which we tell ourselves stories of fields and our place(s) in them matters.

Author

• Susan Ophelia Cannon, Mercer University