Dialogues on Agential Realism is built up around dialogues with key scholars in the field: Magdalena Gorska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson and Karen Barad. The book investigates agential realist-inspired research practices and provides illustrations of what response-able knowledge production may involve.

Based on thorough readings of the scholars' work, careful dialogues concerning the challenges, messiness, thrill and inventiveness of research processes are brought to the fore. The dialogues with Gorska, Schrader, de Freitas and Johnson were based on specific research projects, which drew inspiration from agential realist theory, in combination with the ideas of other thinkers. The dialogue with Barad focuses on the continuous development of agential realism. In addition, the book consists of a chapter that introduces agential realism and a closing chapter focusing on some of the main insights agential realism has to offer in relation research practices.

The book offers new entry points to agential realism and the conduct of research. It may vitalize methodological prudence and creativity and spark new and previously unimagined ways of thinking and doing research. As such, it will be an essential resource to both newcomers and scholars and students who are already familiar with the theory of agential realism.

About the Author

Malou Juelskjaer is an associate professor in social psychology at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Helle Plauborg is an associate professor at the Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Denmark.

Stine W. Adrian is an associate professor in techno-anthropology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

Reviews

This book is highly original and innovative in the sense that opening up the black box of research processes and processes of analysis is timely and very much needed. The authors manage to invite us in to witness the conversations which reveal diligent, careful, considerate and extensive readings within the fields of posthuman theory, agential realism and feminist studies, but also close readings of the selected scholars.

Jette Kofoed, Associate Professor, Aarhus University, Denmark

Book Information
ISBN 9780367173593
Author Malou Juelskjaer
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
Weight(grams) 453g