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Book SynopsisThe ways in which research and scholarship are co-produced, co-performed and proclaimed as particular kinds of knowledges and truths in and beyond the academy is radically changing. The capacity to write rebelliously, in varying registers and voices, tempos and volumes, as featured across this book, is boundaryless. In this edited volume, we ask new questions which simultaneously trouble and open up what the ‘product’ and ‘performance’ of academic work, words and worlds might come to be. At the heart of this book, we move between departing radically from academic writing to arriving at a new academic endeavor and transaction between reader and text driven by the invitation to open rebellion in academic research and writing. This unique volume brings together an extraordinary range of international scholars, researchers and artists, that include contemporary social scientists, critical theorists, visual artists, poets, musicians, hip-hoppers, choreographers, activists, film-makers, theatre-makers, magicians, and circus artists from both within and outside the academy in Europe, UK, India, Africa, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They articulate new concepts for thinking differently, generate new theories differently, and present new methods of writing differently. This book provides ‘permission’ to depart radically in academic writing and creative practice – particularly for doctoral and higher degree research students, and those who work alongside them as supervisors and advisors and higher research degree educators. The claim here is that rebellious departures and performances in academic research and writing are the future of academia. This book provides a series of steps toward preparing for that future.
Trade Review“Write fewer papers, take more risks (…): Researchers call for ‘rebellion’ against academic convention (…) which define academic scholarship, arguing that different approaches are needed in an age of climate change, COVID-19 and rising populism.” - Faculty of Education News (4 June 2022), in , University of Cambridge “Meet the rebellious researchers embracing rap, magic and circus acts” in order “to make their work more effective and help them spread their findings among a wider audience” by “calling for a ‘rebellion’ against traditional forms of output”. - Richard Adams (4 June 2022), in , The Guardian
Table of ContentsA Visual Mapping of Topic Flows Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Prologue Elizabeth Mackinlay, Pamela Burnard, David Rousell, Tatjana Dragovic and Trisha McCrae PART 1: Rebellious Theories and Research Methodologies Performed Differently Part 1: Guidance for Readers Pamela Burnard 1 Critical Openings in Performing Transdisciplinary Research as/in Rebellion Pamela Burnard 2 Ten Incitements to Rebellion: Spoken Word as a Social Scientific Research Tool of, and for, Rebellious Research Helen Johnson 3 Instructions on How to Research with Circus: Or, How Circus Research Rebels against Circus and Research at Stockholm University of the Arts Alisan Funk 4 Walking with(in) Transdisciplinary-Scapes Carolyn Cooke 5 Paying Attention: A Bakhtin-Inspired Dialogue about Embodiment and Inclusion in the Musicking Classroom Mary Earl and Jennie Francis 6 Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes Bernd Brabec de Mori 7 Performing Transdisciplinary Creativity by Emersiology with the Living Body Antonella Poli and Bernard Andrieu Part 1: Reflective Questions PART 2: Rebellious Writings Written Differently: A Manifesto Part 2: Guidance for Readers Elizabeth Mackinlay 8 Departing Radically in Academic Writing: Because, a Manifesto Elizabeth Mackinlay 9 The Zoom Room Rebels: Worlding and Writing a Diffractive Ethics with Performance of Research in the Zoom-I-Verse Naomi Lee McCarthy and Eleanor Ryan 10 100 Words Exactly: The Art of Thesis Drabbling Elizabeth Allotta, Dewi Andriani, Emma Cooke, Eloise Doherty, Mel Green, Karen Madden, Renee Mickelburgh, Muhammad Ali Musofer, Rebecca Ream, Preeti Vayada and Elizabeth Mackinlay 11 The Affect of Writing to It: A Collaborative Response to Encountering Deleuze and Guattari for the First Time Elizabeth Allotta, Eloise Doherty, Dewi Andriani, Kathy Burke, Emma Cooke, Bonnie Evans, Mel Green, Karen Madden, Renee Mickelburgh, Muhammad Ali Musofer, Preeti Vayada, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Jonathan Wyatt 12 Twin Stars: Circling with the Trouble of ‘Co-diffraction’? Nurturing Permission to Imagine Together Rebelliously in a Doctoral Peer Learning Environment Portia Ungley and Kieran Sheehan 13 Don’t Just Do Something … Stand There! Two Women Dance Their Academic Trajectories Simone Eringfeld and Hilary Cremin Part 2: Reflective Questions PART 3: Rebellious Transdisciplinarity Researched Differently Part 3: Guidance for Readers David Rousell 14 Performing Rebellious Theory and Methodology: Going All City David Rousell 15 Animist Pedagogies and the Endings of Worlds: Rituals for the Pluriverse David Rousell, Eleanor Ryan, Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen and Rachel Lai 16 The Heart of Research: Fictioning and Diffractive Writing as Critical Research Practice Annouchka Bayley 17 Surfacing the Image-inary: Exchanging Sensations of Time through Art, Media, and Pedagogy Trisha McCrae, David Rousell and Portia Ungley 18 dreams in the margem: stories from the river Marta Cotrim and Mindy R. Carter Part 3: Reflective Questions PART 4: Rebellious Leadership Leading Differently Part 4: Guidance for Readers: Rebelling against What and Rebelling How? Tatjana Dragovic (with Leaders around the World) 19 Critical Openings in Leading Rebelliously Tatjana Dragovic 20 Leading Rebellious Leaders/ship through Radical Trust and Playfulness Tatiana Chemi, Anne Pässilä and Allan Owens 21 ‘It’s Our Museum Too!’: Enacting Change through Rebellious Research in the University Art Museum Kate Noble 22 Enchanting Educational Settings: Creative Practices from the World of Illusion to Improve Collaborative Learning Schemes and Educational Leadership Protocols Antonia Symeonidou, Danilo Audiello and Caterina Garone 23 Hallå STEAM! Performative Recasting of History, Science, Art, Language and Education Kristof Fenyvesi and Christopher Brownell 24 The Hip-Hopification of Education? BREIS (Brother Reaching Each Inner Soul) Part 4: Reflective Questions Epilogue: What Happened Here? Writing with a Rebellious Community Pamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Trisha McCrae Glossary Index
