Explorations of Waste in Academic Inquiry

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 25

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

As many have noted (Bauman, 2004; Sandlin & McLaren, 2010), waste is a pervasive product of contemporary capitalist societies and should garner greater attention. Concerns over waste and its effects should equally require the attention of those interested in educational inquiry. In this panel, presenters will reconsider academic waste—its conceptualization, value, effect, affect—in light of the modern production of academic knowledge. Panelists will consider waste both through theoretical perspectives, exploring how theory produces and makes use of waste, and through its inherent materiality, exploring its productive affects. In each paper, presenters will draw out the connection between waste, academic inquiry, and its relationship to the public good, suggesting new ways of framing and thinking with/through/about waste.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Chair

• Tim Wells, Arizona State University

Papers

• The Knowledge Imperative in Academic Waste(lands) - Ryan Evely Gildersleeve, University of Denver

• Affect, Space, and Waste in Academic Inquiry - Tim Wells, Arizona State University; Lauren Mark, Arizona State University; Jorge Sandoval, Arizona State University

• Diversification of Waste: Production of Value? - Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University; Adam T Clark, Arizona State University; Mariia Vitrukh, Arizona State University

• Writing, Words, and Waste: Words as a By-Product of Academic Writing - David Bright, Monash University

• Waste in the Space, Time, and Matter of Research/Inquiry - Angelo Benozzo; Dana Unger, University of East Anglia

Discussant

• Pauliina Rautio, University of Oulu