Scaling as Methodological and Material Activation Technique

• In Event: Rethinking Methodologies

Abstract

In this conceptual paper we propose that methodologies create a potential relationship and emerging and emergent ‘(dis)order’ within the world. Methodologies identify and create a temporary and relational worldbuilding structures which foreground and background certain views, experiences, materials, and relationships across different spaces. Scaling enables qualitative scholars to consider their relationality with others, how close/far data, knowledge, and participants are and become, which theories and practices are foregrounded and backgrounded, how relationality might operate and so on. Scaling may also enable multiple temporary exemplifications of complex relationships. Furthermore, we propose that nonhuman or more-than-human ‘scales’ are particularly pertinent to understand limitations of human knowledge, as well as myriad forms of relationalities between humans and nonhuman /more than human counterparts.

Authors

• Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University
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• Amalie Strange
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• Abhik Chakraborty
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• Minna Sorsa, Tampere University
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