Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond

by Sarah R. Davies (Editor), Andrea Schikowitz (Editor), Fredy Mora Gámez (Editor), Elaine Goldberg (Editor), Esther Dessewffy (Editor)

Overview

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence. This book explores the concept of reflexivity in science and technology studies and how it can be applied to address practical and ethical issues in research.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781529244885
Publisher:	Bristol University Press
Publication date:	07/01/2025
Series:	Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
Sales rank:	294,256

About the Author

Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, University of Austria. Her work explores how science and society are co-produced: she has written about hackers and hackerspaces, how scientists experience the conditions of contemporary academia and science communication formats such as festivals and museums.

Table of Contents

Navigating

1. Introduction – Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg

2. Navigating: A user's guide to 'Revisiting Reflexivity' - Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg

3. Automatic reply:

Another University is Possible – Jane Calvert, Reuben Message, Rob Smith

Affecting

4. Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Qualitative Research – Michael Penkler

5. Response to chapter 4: Becoming Instrument - Joshua D. Evans

6. Care Embodied: Speaking from a Nonbinary, Crip, Menstrual Body – marissa micah schut

7. Response to chapter 6: Movement, rest, bodyminds - Ekat Osipova

8. Epistemic erasure in participatory research: Embodying transdisciplinary moments as spaces of in-betweenness - Dimas D. Laksmana

9. Reflexive Collaborations in the Making of More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia - Camilo Castillo

10. Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Barbara Morsello

Experimenting

11. Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces Through Somatic, Arts-based Methods – Ewa Łączkowska

12. Response to chapter 11: an invitation to who? - Maria Vlachou

13. The Third Space Walk: An experimental approach to understanding urban space between the analog and digital - Mirjana Mitroviƈ

14. From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research – Lisa Weasel

15. An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space - Erika Szymanski

16. Contemplations - A Perspective on Reflexivity through the Windows of Artistic Research - Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond

17. Response to chapter 16: Reflexivity in artistic research and social anthropology - Sanderien Verstappen

Institutionalising

18. On institutions and institutionalising - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, and Fredy Mora Gámez

19. Projected Reflexivity: Learnins from two reflexive projects from within, with within and for within – Karen Karstenhofer, Doris Allhutter

20. Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: from challenges to principles of participatory research evaluation - Katja Mayer

21. Situating Reflexivity: Coming home to STS - Nikolaus Pöchhacker and Sarah Schönbauer

22. Reflexivity: Avoid it like the plague? - Annie Patrick

23. A Better Place for STS? The Art Studio as Heterotopia - Elaine Goldberg

24. Why Bogotá? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or, STS - Here and There - Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero

Reflecting

25. Aesthetics and reflexivity - Mike Michael and Alex Wilkie

26. Is Reflexivity Dead? - Steve Woolgar and Malcolm Ashmore

27. Post-reflexivity: whose worlds are more liveable now - Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine

Goldberg, Sarah R Davies,

and Andrea Schikowitz