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Posthuman Research Practices in Education

Palgrave Macmillan
  • Examines how we can develop understandings of beyond-the-human aspects of the world in social research

  • Offers innovative and original approaches to posthumanist research practices in education

  • Recognise the vitality and agency of other beings/matter through relational thinking

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
  2. Introduction

    • Carol A. Taylor, Christina Hughes
    Pages 1-4
  3. Rethinking the Empirical in the Posthuman

    • Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
    Pages 25-36
  4. A Mark on Paper: The Matter of Indigenous-Settler History

    • Alison Jones, Te Kawehau Hoskins
    Pages 75-92
  5. Thinking with an Agentic Assemblage in Posthuman Inquiry

    • Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Lisa A. Mazzei
    Pages 93-107
  6. Decentring the Human in Multispecies Ethnographies

    • Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Affrica Taylor, Mindy Blaise
    Pages 149-167
  7. Back Matter

    Pages 267-272

About this book

How do we include and develop understandings of those beyond-the-human aspects of the world in social research? Through fifteen contributions from leading international thinkers, this book provides original approaches to posthumanist research practices in education. It responds to questions which consider the effect and reach of posthuman research.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Sheffield Hallam University, UK

    Carol A. Taylor

  • University of Warwick, UK

    Christina Hughes

About the editors

Carol Taylor is Reader at the Sheffield Institute of Education at Sheffield Hallam University, UK where she leads the Higher Education Research Group. Her research focuses on space, gender, bodies and materialities, and student engagement and ethics. Her work has been published in Cultural Studies=Critical Methodologies, Studies in Higher Education and Gender and Education.

Christina Hughes is Professor of Sociology at the University of Warwick, UK. Her research focusses on equity and gender issues and she has longstanding interests in methodological concerns. She has published widely in this area and is co-editor of the International Journal of Social Research Methodology.

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Softcover Book USD 32.99
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