Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond

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Revisiting Reflexivity

Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond

Edited by: Sarah R. Davies , Andrea Schikowitz , Fredy Mora Gámez , Elaine Goldberg , Esther Dessewffy , Bao-Chau Pham , Ariadne Avkıran and Kathleen Gregory

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2025

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Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today’s neoliberal academia and beyond? This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, asking how researchers are affected by, and affect, the worlds they engage with. Using experimental formats that challenge academic convention, the volume acknowledges the ‘dark sides’ of reflexivity, while insisting that it is nonetheless worthwhile striving for it. This volume is essential for anyone interested in creative, playful and always incomplete attempts to refresh reflexivity in research, and in developing more liveable worlds for ourselves and those our research engages with.

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Social Sciences Sociology Methods, Techniques, Statistics

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Front Matter
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Contents
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Series Editors’ Preface
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List of Figures
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Notes on Contributors
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PART I Navigating
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1 Introduction
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Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz and Fredy Mora-Gámez

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2 A User’s Guide to ‘Revisiting Reflexivity’
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Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gámez

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3 Automatic Reply: Another University is Possible
30
Reuben Message, Jane Calvert and Rob Smith

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4 Is My Work Reflexive Enough?
51
Anne Beaulieu

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PART II Affecting
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5 Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Empirical Research
55
Michael Penkler

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6 Becoming Instrument
73
Joshua D. Evans

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7 care embodied: speaking from a nonbinary, crip, menstrual body
76
marissa micah schut

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8 Movement, Rest, Bodyminds
88
Ekat Osipova

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9 Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research
91
Dimas D Laksmana

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10 Making More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia: Reflexivity in Collaborative Research Practice
111
Camilo Castillo

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11 Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the COVID-19 Pandemic
126
Barbara Morsello

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PART III Experimenting
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12 Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces through Somatic, Arts-based Methods
137
Ewa Łączkowska

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13 An Invitation to Who?
160
Maria Vlachou

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14 The Third Space Walk: An Approach to Understanding ~~Analogue-digital~~ Urban Spaces
163
Mirjana Mitrović

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15 From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research
181
Lisa Weasel

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16 An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space
201
Erika Szymanski

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17 Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the ‘Brackish Waters’ of Artistic Research
219
Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond

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18 Reflexivity in Artistic Research and Visual Anthropology: Response to ‘Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the “Brackish Waters” of Artistic Research’ by Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond
241
Sanderien Verstappen

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PART IV Institutionalizing
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19 On Institutions and Institutionalizing
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Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gámez

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20 Projected Reflexivity: Learnings from Two Reflexive Research Projects from-within, with-within and for-within
251
Karen Kastenhofer and Doris Allhutter

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21 Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: From Challenges to Principles of Participatory Research Evaluation
273
Katja Mayer

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22 Reflexivity, Avoid it Like the Plague?
282
Annie Y Patrick

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23 Coming Home to STS: Liminality of Research Positions as Mode of Reflexivity
293
Nikolaus Poechhacker and Sarah Schönbauer

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24 A Better Place for Science and Technology Studies? The Art Studio as Heterotopia
311
Elaine Goldberg

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25 Why Bogotá? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or: STS – Here and There
322
Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero

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PART V Revisiting Reflexivity
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26 Snapshots of Reflexivity
353
Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz and Fredy Mora-Gámez

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27 Rethinking Aesthetics, Ontologizing Reflexivity
356
Mike Michael and Alex Wilkie

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28 Dear Steve: On the Contribution of Reflexivity to General Human Wellbeing and Liveability in the World beyond Research
361
Steve Woolgar

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29 When Sally Met Steve: Virtual Reflexivity
372
Sally Wyatt

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30 Whose Worlds Are More Liveable Now? Abandoning the Alienated ‘Blah’
375
Fredy Mora-Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Sarah R. Davies and Andrea Schikowitz

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Index
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Revisiting Reflexivity

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

Series Editors’ Preface

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

1 Introduction

2 A User’s Guide to ‘Revisiting Reflexivity’

3 Automatic Reply: Another University is Possible

4 Is My Work Reflexive Enough?

5 Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Empirical Research

6 Becoming Instrument

7 care embodied: speaking from a nonbinary, crip, menstrual body

8 Movement, Rest, Bodyminds

9 Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research

10 Making More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia: Reflexivity in Collaborative Research Practice

11 Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the COVID-19 Pandemic

12 Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces through Somatic, Arts-based Methods

13 An Invitation to Who?

14 The Third Space Walk: An Approach to Understanding Analogue-digital Urban Spaces

15 From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research

16 An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space

17 Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the ‘Brackish Waters’ of Artistic Research

18 Reflexivity in Artistic Research and Visual Anthropology: Response to ‘Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the “Brackish Waters” of Artistic Research’ by Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond

19 On Institutions and Institutionalizing

20 Projected Reflexivity: Learnings from Two Reflexive Research Projects from-within, with-within and for-within

21 Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: From Challenges to Principles of Participatory Research Evaluation

22 Reflexivity, Avoid it Like the Plague?

23 Coming Home to STS: Liminality of Research Positions as Mode of Reflexivity

24 A Better Place for Science and Technology Studies? The Art Studio as Heterotopia

25 Why Bogotá? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or: STS – Here and There

26 Snapshots of Reflexivity

27 Rethinking Aesthetics, Ontologizing Reflexivity

28 Dear Steve: On the Contribution of Reflexivity to General Human Wellbeing and Liveability in the World beyond Research

29 When Sally Met Steve: Virtual Reflexivity

30 Whose Worlds Are More Liveable Now? Abandoning the Alienated ‘Blah’

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