Becoming Acrobat, Becoming Academic: An Affective, Autoethnographic Inquiry Into Collective Practices of Knowing and Becoming

Stephens, Lindsay

doi:10.1177/1532708618784332

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“…We supplemented the visual data with narratives by 15 significant figures in OA, including members of the collective and participants in its interventions from six Polish cities between June 1986 and July 1989 (Dardzińska & Dolata, 2011). We saw their reflections as valuable for re-imagining the affective atmosphere of the OA’s interventions; as Stephens (2019, p. 267), following Deleuze, notes, ‘as affect has an effect on sensation, it’s mostly recognized on reflection’. All material was translated from Polish by the authors.…”

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Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance

Marsh

Śliwa

2021

Organization Studies

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The paper focuses on affective resistance with an emphasis on the context in which resistant action emerges, and on the liberating power of laughter. It adopts the approach of ‘affective ethnographic history’ to examine the activities of the Polish oppositional artistic collective, the Orange Alternative (OA), between 1986 and 1989. The OA organized interventions in the streets of Polish cities which engaged the general public as participants. The focus of the interventions was on the creation of affective atmospheres leading to affective transitions in the participants from fear to the lack of fear. The paper contributes to scholarly debates on resistance in three ways: (1) it proposes that resistance and its efficacy should be assessed not in terms of the form of resistance, but through consideration of resistant action in relation to the context of its emergence; (2) it demonstrates how affective resistance operates through affective atmospheres that result in affective transitions to the state of lack of fear; and (3) it reconsiders the significance of laughter as an affective force that has liberating consequences both within a particular resistance assemblage and beyond it.

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Section: Methodological Reflectionsmentioning

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Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance

Marsh

Śliwa

2021

Organization Studies

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“…The CAE process was transformational, we were not individuals but a group in our own right who had worked to “re-understand individual experiences through a collective lens” (Torre et al, 2012, p. 174). This process of (re)empowerment through ‘we’ echoed the findings of Stephens (2019) whereby creating a secure space within the academic sphere built our confidence, enforced healthy boundaries, and recognised what is comfortable and what is acceptable to us as individuals, and as a group. However, here we also found ourselves within the centre of the tensions faced by all feminist researchers: “We want to live our contradictions, to become-academic through uprooting what it means to be academic” (Brooks et al, 2020, p. 292).…”

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We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities

Yeo

Pilson

Rutter

et al. 2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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As a UK-based group of female postgraduate researchers, the authors explored their experiences during COVID-19 pandemic through multivocal inquiry via a feminist collaborative autoethnographic project. In this paper, we use the Listening Guide as a tool to revisit and (re)analyse data from the aforementioned project, displaying findings in the form of voice poems. In utilising the Listening Guide, we discovered that listening is less of an exercise and more an art form. While the structured approach of the LG helped to enhance our understandings of wider individual experiences of disability and womanhood, identities that all authors inhabit, we were surprised to find that despite our established mutual trust and superficially similar experiences, we were unable to find emotional resonance through data that wasn’t our own voice. We also found that the traditional stepped process of the LG that incorporates four listens to the data left our interpretations feeling flat. Through reflexivity and the novel collaborative approach we undertook in this analysis, we identified and implemented an augmentation of the Listening Guide process. In this paper, we propose an additional fifth listen, focusing on emotion, to facilitate a more holistic analysis of voice data. We explore how the fifth listen assisted the (re)construction of individual and collective identities, helping us to reshape our understandings. Finally, we elucidate the positives and pitfalls we experienced in the Listening Guide as a data analysis tool, recommending to other researchers the adoption of an iterative, flexible and reflexive approach in using it during collaborative research.

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“…In Minecraft, nature lives on the screen, providing an authentic form of embodied experience. Crossing boundaries between different realities, the virtual and the real nature, as in our case, becomes a means to "open the opportunity for thinking/feeling/knowing differently-in particular in more sensory and collective ways" [37] (p. 265). Individuals are constantly merging their experiences in the virtual world with experiences in the physical world.…”

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Minecraft as a Hybrid Boundary Object: Exploring Nature in Squares

Cederqvist,

Impedovo

2023

Education Sciences

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In this exploratory case study, we investigated children’s ways of experiencing virtual worlds, such as Minecraft, and how this may affect their understanding of nature, scientific phenomena, and sustainable development; that is to say, Minecraft was explored as a boundary object in children’s making activities with Minecraft. The research questions that guided the study are: In what ways may Minecraft act as a boundary object between children’s formal and informal learning about science and sustainable development? In what ways may Minecraft act as a boundary object when children build relationships with nature? Semi-structured interviews were conducted with six children. A thematic analysis approach was used to analyze the interviews. This study shows that in the Minecraft context, the children gained a breadth of everyday experiences related to scientific phenomena and sustainability. Further, the findings indicate that children merged their experiences in the virtual world with experiences in the physical world. In this sense, Minecraft involves science and sustainability content that crosses the boundary between the virtual world and reality. Thus, we suggest that Minecraft bridged children’s physical and virtual relationships with nature; that is to say, Minecraft became a boundary object that allowed children to experience nature and encounter knowledge that they would not otherwise have been able to experience.

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Becoming Acrobat, Becoming Academic: An Affective, Autoethnographic Inquiry Into Collective Practices of Knowing and Becoming

Cited by 11 publications

References 47 publications

Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance

Making a Difference Through Atmospheres: The Orange Alternative, laughter and the possibilities of affective resistance

We Need to be as a Group: Using and Evaluating the Listening Guide in Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography With an Affective ‘Fifth Listen’ as a Tool to (re)construct Identities

Minecraft as a Hybrid Boundary Object: Exploring Nature in Squares

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