52.026 - Research Methodologies and Attunement to the More-Than-Human World

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Our panel seeks to address how humanism, broadly understood, has radically narrowed our understand of what research is and can be, something that must be addressed as we learn to dwell in less destructive ways in our more-than-human world. One paper is historical and conceptual, outlining a genealogy of the emergence of “methodocentrism” in (educational) research in relation to posthumanist, poststructuralist, and object-oriented critiques. The other three papers, while still theoretical in focus, take up particular experiments with non-humanist or posthumanist forms of research. We are oriented toward finding ways to make research more open to a more-than-human world about which we know very little thanks to the humanist enclosure of research.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 6: Critical Media Literacies, Popular Culture and Posthumaism

Chair

• Nathan Snaza, University of Richmond

Papers

• Can Posthumanism Embrace Research Methodologies? - John A. Weaver, Georgia Southern University; Nathan Snaza, University of Richmond

• Wearable Technologies: Becoming-Machinic in Urban Schools - Nikki Rotas, OISE/University of Toronto

• Propositions for Posthumanist Research-Creation - Sarah E. Truman, University of Toronto - OISE; Stephanie Springgay, OISE/University of Toronto

• Becoming-Posthuman: A Collaborative Currere Concerning Cancer, Chaos, and Complexity - Annette E. Gough, RMIT University; Noel Gough, La Trobe University