Dialogues on Agential Realism: Engaging in Worldings through Research Practice

Dialogues on Agential Realism is a book that explores agential realist-inspired research practices and provides illustrations of response-able knowledge production. It features dialogues with key scholars in the field, including Magdalena Górska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson, and Karen Barad. The book investigates the challenges, messiness, thrill, and inventiveness of research processes and introduces agential realism. It offers new entry points to agential realism and the conduct of research, potentially vitalizing methodological prudence and creativity and sparking new ways of thinking and doing research.

\n Format: Paperback / softback
\n Length: 160 pages
\n Publication date: 14 September 2020
\n Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Dialogues on Agential Realism is a comprehensive exploration of the field, built upon engaging conversations with prominent scholars in the area. These scholars include Magdalena Górska, Astrid Schrader, Elizabeth de Freitas, Ericka Johnson, and Karen Barad. Through in-depth discussions, the book delves into agential realist-inspired research practices, providing illustrative examples of what response-able knowledge production might entail.

The dialogues, conducted based on extensive readings of the scholars' work, highlight the complexities, uncertainties, excitement, and creativity inherent in research processes. The conversations with Górska, Schrader, de Freitas, and Johnson were specifically shaped by their involvement in research projects that drew inspiration from agential realist theory, while also incorporating ideas from other thinkers. The dialogue with Barad, on the other hand, focuses on the ongoing development of agential realism.

In addition to these dialogues, the book includes a chapter that introduces agential realism and a concluding chapter that summarizes some of the key insights offered by agential realism in relation to research practices. This book serves as a valuable resource for both newcomers to the field and scholars and students who have a foundational understanding of agential realism. It offers fresh perspectives and encourages methodological prudence and creativity, thereby opening up new and previously unimagined ways of thinking and conducting research. As such, it is poised to become an essential tool for those engaged in the study of agency and realism.

\n Weight: 266g\n
Dimension: 232 x 155 x 16 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9780367173593\n \n