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How can we nurture more liveable worlds in todays 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.
PART I: Navigating
1. Introduction - Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz and
Fredy Mora-Gįmez
2. A Users Guide to Revisiting Reflexivity - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R.
Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gįmez
3. Automatic Reply: Another University is Possible - Reuben Message, Jane
Calvert and Rob Smith
4. Is My Work Reflexive Enough? - Anne Beaulieu
PART II: Affecting
Section II.1: Bodies
5. Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in
Empirical Research - Michael Penkler
6. Becoming Instrument - Joshua D. Evans
7. care embodied: speaking from a nonbinary, crip, menstrual body - marissa
micah schut
8. Movement, Rest, Bodyminds - Ekat Osipova
Section II.2: Participation
9. Epistemic Erasure in Participatory Research - Dimas D. Laksmana
10. Making More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia: Reflexivity in Collaborative
Research Practice - Camilo Castillo
11. Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants
During the COVID-19 Pandemic - Barbara Morsello
PART III: Experimenting
Section III.1: Doing
12. Outrageously Open: Co inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces
through Somatic, Arts-based Methods - Ewa czkowska
13. An Invitation to Who? - Maria Vlachou
14. The Third Space Walk: An Approach to Understanding Analogue-digital Urban
Spaces - Mirjana Mitrovi
15. From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist
Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research - Lisa Weasel
Section III.2: Making
16. An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space - Erika
Szymanski
17 Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity Out of the
Brackish Waters of Artistic Research - Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond
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 - Sanderien
Verstappen
PART IV: Institutionalizing
19. On Institutions and Institutionalizing - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R.
Davies, Elaine Goldberg and Fredy Mora-Gįmez
Section IV.1: Evaluating
20. Projected Reflexivity: Learnings from Two Reflexive Research Projects
from- within, with-within and for-within - Karen Kastenhofer and Doris
Allhutter
21. Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: From Challenges to Principles of
Participatory Research Evaluation - Katja Mayer
22. Reflexivity, Avoid it Like the Plague? - Annie Y. Patrick
Section IV.2: Place
23. Coming Home to STS : Liminality of Research Positions as Mode of
Reflexivity - Nikolaus Poechhacker and Sarah Schönbauer
24. A Better Place for Science and Technology Studies? The Art Studio as
Heterotopia - Elaine Goldberg
25. Why Bogotį? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or:
STS Here and There - Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero
PART V: Revisiting Reflexivity
26. Snapshots of Reflexivity - Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea
Schikowitz and Fredy Mora-Gįmez
27. Rethinking Aesthetics, Ontologizing Reflexivity - Mike Michael and Alex
Wilkie
28. Dear Steve: On the Contribution of Reflexivity to General Human Wellbeing
and Liveability in the World beyond Research - Steve Woolgar
29. When Sally Met Steve: Virtual Reflexivity - Sally Wyatt
30. Whose Worlds Are More Liveable Now? Abandoning the Alienated Blah -
Fredy Mora-Gįmez, Elaine Goldberg, Sarah R. Davies and Andrea Schikowitz
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Andrea Schikowitz is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Fredy Mora-Gįmez is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Elaine Goldberg is a researcher and filmmaker.
Esther Dessewffy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Bao-Chau Pham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Ariadne Avkran is a PhD student and a sowi:doc fellow (2023) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Kathleen Gregory is Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.
