Deleuze and Collaborative Writing in the Dance of Activism

Abstract

Drawing upon and infused by the 'micropolitical' moves of Deleuze and Guattari, this article arose out of a participative workshop at the 2018 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that took up Braidotti's proposition to explore how collaborative writing 'like breathing, [is] not held into the mould of linearity, or the confines of the printed page, but move[s] outwards, out of bounds, in webs of encounters with ideas, others, texts' (Braidotti, 2013, p. 166). We worked with the view that collaborative writing is a political act, a 'minor gesture' (Manning, 2016), a world making that opens up to the new and challenges the sedimented. This is an article that engages in and with collaborative writing, that dances with ideas of what collaborative writing might be and, crucially, what it might do.

Liminal relationalities: on collaborative writing with/in and against race in the study of early childhood

“…In turning to collaborative inquiry, then, we join others in pursuing a potentially generative line of flight against individualism (Alexander et al, 2018;Deleuze & Guattari, 1987;Gale, 2018;Gale et al, 2019;Wyatt et al, 2014). Collaborative inquiry opens a "bloom space" (Stewart, 2010a) for us to unsettle singular authorship and challenge the seeming fixity of our individual selves.…”

Creative Subversion: Staking a Claim for Critical Qualitative Inquiry

“…Each of these different ways of acting has received different attention from the human and social sciences. It is worth mentioning, for example, the efforts of Fotaki and Daskalaki (2020), Curnow et al (2019), and Apoifis (2017) in regards of activism; on collaborative writing it is worth mentioning Gale and Wyatt (2012), Bogdanich (2014), and Gale et al (2019) just to provide some authors to follow in the directions and approaches they are pointed out.…”

Ghost Writings

“… 8. That crematorium wall opened up during an arts-based collective biography (Thomson et al, 2018), and the complexities of the relationship with my daughter’s father and its beginnings subsequently became dance-steps in an act of collaborative writing (Gale et al, 2019). …”