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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2015) 4 (4): 52–64.
Published: 01 December 2015
...David P. Terry When understood as material artifacts, digital photographs are able to do more than represent other times and other places. Their materiality creates performative possibilities of accident and agency that can be particularly useful during times of mourning. This poetic essay responds...
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When understood as material artifacts, digital photographs are able to do more than represent other times and other places. Their materiality creates performative possibilities of accident and agency that can be particularly useful during times of mourning. This poetic essay responds to a photograph of the author's mother that he took with his cellphone shortly after her death.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 121–124.
Published: 15 December 2020
...Adina Schneeweis Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma , by Péter Berta . Toronto : University of Toronto Press , 2019 . 390 pages. $90.00 cloth. $36.95 paperback. $36.95 ebook. © 2020 by the Regents of the University of...
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 60–76.
Published: 15 December 2020
...Matthew J. Newcomb While hurricanes are weather events that may become human/ecological tragedies, they might help create stylized moments too. Hurricanes can be distinctive from each other in message and in the tools they use as their material aspects (wind speed or storm surge) interact with...
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While hurricanes are weather events that may become human/ecological tragedies, they might help create stylized moments too. Hurricanes can be distinctive from each other in message and in the tools they use as their material aspects (wind speed or storm surge) interact with cities, social structures, and popular media messages. One way to explore hurricane styles is through forms of affective mapping. This exploration analyzes features of several hurricanes that made landfall in 21st-century North America in combination with considerations of affect around hurricanes. The combination of material and affective elements of hurricanes might allow rhetorical style to serve as a way of rethinking hurricanes and their connections, from the individual level to global climate change.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 44–59.
Published: 15 December 2020
... symbolic and material construction that is coproduced in connection to the personal, discursive, and collective unconscious. Through narrative, poetry, and performance, I argue for the concept of environmental performativity as a metonym for exploring the interdependent relationship among the individual...
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In this essay, I use performative writing as a framework to explore the problem of climate change. Specifically, the shifting and accumulative nature of clouds serves as a trope for imaginatively restaging environmental issues. In the essay, I view the environment as a symbolic and material construction that is coproduced in connection to the personal, discursive, and collective unconscious. Through narrative, poetry, and performance, I argue for the concept of environmental performativity as a metonym for exploring the interdependent relationship among the individual, environment, and climate change.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (3): 76–82.
Published: 01 September 2019
...Stacy Holman Jones; Anne M. Harris Written in the spirit of Maggie Nelson's “autotheory,” this essay takes up José Esteban Muñoz's notion of “ephemera as evidence” to explore how the body-as-object (i.e., the body-as-book) might reformulate understandings of materiality as an ephemerality of...
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Written in the spirit of Maggie Nelson's “autotheory,” this essay takes up José Esteban Muñoz's notion of “ephemera as evidence” to explore how the body-as-object (i.e., the body-as-book) might reformulate understandings of materiality as an ephemerality of “traces, glimmers, residues, and specks of things.” Bodies-as-books are distinctly material, though not always solid, and can be written and read as artifact-ephemera that end but do not disappear.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (1): 41–45.
Published: 01 March 2020
... oneself to be caught in the double bind between performing whiteness and resisting white supremacy, a tactical form of essentialism recognizes that identity is fluid, yet simultaneously linked materially to lived-empirical experience. By recognizing that the dichotomy can be complementary, the tactical...
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Scholars of color in white majority universities inhabit a zone of alterity, which forces them to make strategic choices about how they perform. Tactical essentialism is an alternative to the dichotomous ideologies of static and fluid ontologies. Rather than allowing oneself to be caught in the double bind between performing whiteness and resisting white supremacy, a tactical form of essentialism recognizes that identity is fluid, yet simultaneously linked materially to lived-empirical experience. By recognizing that the dichotomy can be complementary, the tactical subject intentionally engages in performances of identity that can be leveraged to decolonize merit in the ivory tower.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (3): 49–54.
Published: 01 September 2019
... need to know everything that happens from now is material for a book I'm writing,” anyone will tell you it's not likely to go well. Instead, you sound smug and manipulative and someone not to trust. If you then move on to complain to the audience about being given only five minutes, if you also...
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This essay is drawn from the author's book, Therapy, Stand-Up, and the Gesture of Writing: Towards Creative-Relational Inquiry , which explores the connections between therapy, stand-up comedy, and writing as a method of inquiry. The essay is a poetic meditation on being given the green light and not taking it. A meditation on permission, a meditation on warning: on the insistent green flash the performer heeds or ignores; and the invitations the client gives—there, then gone—there, then gone—there, then gone—that the therapist takes or misses. It is a meditation on hope, regret, and shame.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (4): 25–29.
Published: 01 December 2018
...Anne M. Harris This essay creatively evidences the materiality of a story and its ability to migrate and evolve. It does so by critiquing the non-human limitations of binary onto-epistemologies, especially visual/discursive ones. Here stories and words have lives, bodies, and agency and as such...
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This essay creatively evidences the materiality of a story and its ability to migrate and evolve. It does so by critiquing the non-human limitations of binary onto-epistemologies, especially visual/discursive ones. Here stories and words have lives, bodies, and agency and as such they matter, but that matter is not material. The mattering of stories is not contingent upon human telling or hearing. Stories linger where humans disappear. An ecomaterialist reading suggests we might productively decouple storytelling (stories about us) from storied matter (stories with autonomy).
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2019) 8 (1): 17–24.
Published: 01 March 2019
... burnings became commonplace among warring Yup'ik communities. The following essay considers the events of Nunalleq alongside a new era of migration as Yup'ik prepare to move farther inland in response to human-induced climate change. Specifically, I reflect on the relationships between Yup'ik material...
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Nunalleq is a pre-contact Yup'ik village (1350–1660 CE) massacred during a centuries-long conflict known today as the Bow and Arrow Wars. As global temperatures fell during the Little Ice Age (1300–1800 CE), conflict intensified along the Yukon-Kuskokwim delta as food raids and village burnings became commonplace among warring Yup'ik communities. The following essay considers the events of Nunalleq alongside a new era of migration as Yup'ik prepare to move farther inland in response to human-induced climate change. Specifically, I reflect on the relationships between Yup'ik material culture and oral history, and how these histories adapt over time. This writing is an experimental ethnography based in archaeological excavation and participant observation. This writing is oral history. This writing should be read aloud.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 118–120.
Published: 15 December 2020
... and hunger. De Souza’s inclusion of implications for practice and policy at the conclusion of each chapter demonstrates how scholars, practitioners, activists, and policymakers can do more than simply critique our dysfunctional systems. An authentic call for making material and discursive changes...
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 13–34.
Published: 15 December 2020
... sides. An outside deck for eating and bird watching. And a minimalist kitchen: two gas burners and a jug of water, hand-pumped and powered by gravity, for washing up. Small in scale, built from salvaged materials, standing lightly on stilts to accommodate the shifting sands, the shacks developed...
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A residency on the coast inspires reflections on the view. How has the shoreline “view” been compromised by private interest? What happens when the need to gaze deeply into epic nature, to get lost in the scale and beauty of the shore, is no longer accessible? How can popular forms of education push back and build environmental consciousness? If climate change is about aesthetic devastation as much as toxicity, resource depletion, and colonialism, then the shoreline offers a reflexive site through which to reconsider views of the land and to argue for democratic access.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 77–91.
Published: 15 December 2020
... back to the sun. Most simply, the sun is a massive inanimate object with enough power to facilitate all of this earthly existence. It enables life, takes it away, and provides and maintains our abilities to sense at all. The sun is a dramatic example of thing-power. While vital materialism, alongside...
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In this essay, I demonstrate how the ecological concept of “scaling” carries potential to animate critical logics in the Anthropocene. I argue that scaling can expose unexpected linkages across space and time that help to denaturalize particular ecological formations as entangled, rather than separate. I demonstrate the critical ecological potential of scaling by performing it rhizomatically, weaving across scales of space and time while juxtaposing theoretical concepts with my experiences of life as a resident in the urban desert landscape of Phoenix, AZ. This ecology ultimately reveals how climate change acts as a complex necropolitic of the Anthropocene.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 35–43.
Published: 15 December 2020
... planet from on the planet. But thinking doesn’t do it justice. There’s no such thing as the world. White; Woolf; Povinelli 12 In 2015 a midwinter avalanche buried ten houses in Longyearbyen. People died from a snowy darkness made material, smothered by the so much more of it. And then the...
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Drawing from in situ fieldwork in Longyearbyen, Svalbard, the northernmost settlement on Earth, these notes bring out the affective, ambient, and atmospheric power of extended darkness during the polar night, when the sun does not appear above the horizon for several months at a time. Each entry is composed of 113 words to reflect the number of days without light in Longyearbyen during the winter of my visit. Through a mixture of ethnographic observations, researched academic scholarship, and some endeavors of poetic worldmaking, these notes attempt to evoke the ineffable force of global warming by performing the sort of acutely observed and felt attentiveness to planetary being that is needed for our time.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (4): 1–12.
Published: 15 December 2020
... “knowledge about things that are, were, and are to come.” 20 They have approached this task as compositionists. To compose, Bruno Latour reminds us, is to put things together—to make something with the materials at hand. An alternative to critique, compositionism is productive. 21 In the case of this...
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Oscillating between naturalistic observations and conceptual forays, this essay simultaneously performs and introduces the notion of “composing climate change” at the heart of this special issue. Spanning personal narrative, poetry, dialogue, theoretical meditation, thick description, photographic essay, and other modes of scholarly writing, the contributors to this issue experiment with genre, style, and form as they seek to describe, evoke, grasp, disclose, and otherwise imagine what it means and—crucially—what it feels like to be an earthling in a time of tremendous ecological change and profound planetary transformation.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (3): 4–26.
Published: 01 September 2018
...Jody Thomson; Sheridan Linnell; Cath Laws; Bronwyn Davies In this essay, the four authors explore the material and affective agency of art-making in a collective biography workshop. We work with our memories of the death of someone close to us, through stories, and through making art. Collectively...
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In this essay, the four authors explore the material and affective agency of art-making in a collective biography workshop. We work with our memories of the death of someone close to us, through stories, and through making art. Collectively we explore a specific, embodied moment of the particular deaths we have each experienced. The substantive focus of our work is methodological. We concern ourselves with what is made possible through including art-making in intra-action with the more usual storytelling/listening/writing/reading/making of collective biography.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2018) 7 (3): 53–59.
Published: 01 September 2018
...–back arcing rhythms of lived experience. The pas de deux of the intertwined stanzas seeks to embody on the page an iterative conversation between memory and materiality, time and form, sorrow and joy, connections missed… and connections made. © 2018 by the Regents of the University of California. All...
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This performative autoethnography sways between past and present, setting two towers and a flying trapeze into a “responsive dialogue” in the liminal space between waiting and weightlessness, the mirrored mediations engage in an intra-active word play that reflects the forward–back arcing rhythms of lived experience. The pas de deux of the intertwined stanzas seeks to embody on the page an iterative conversation between memory and materiality, time and form, sorrow and joy, connections missed… and connections made.
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (3): 28–47.
Published: 23 September 2020
... included art therapists among the participants, 5 none have worked as a collective of art therapists, nor focused on end-of-life care. 6 In working together with the participants, and then working afterward with the material we produced, the methodology adopted was on the one hand a carefully...
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In this essay, I work with the stories and artwork generated by a small group of visual art therapists who came together in a collective biography workshop. All of the participants, including the author, specialize in end-of-life and palliative art therapy. As a collective, we worked to bring our experiences back to our bodies through stories, art-making, and writing, to explore how working with people in the last days, weeks, or months of their lives affects us. In this essay I ask: What happens when stories paint pictures, and when pictures paint stories, to make visible our experiences of death, vulnerability, and love—experiences that might otherwise have been impossible to know?
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (3): 137–139.
Published: 23 September 2020
... consent because asking is so damn sexy. When we open our intellectual minds to material theorizing, how do we experience each moment within these narratives and poems? It is impossible to read each out of the body, unnerved, and untouched. Felt sex is meant to be just that, felt . And I feel. As I...
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (3): 131–136.
Published: 23 September 2020
...-binary person. 1 The terrain of which is largely relegated to the envisioned, a not-yet-here. A fat-femme-non-binary psychic transition materialized “in the quiet moments of reflection” in the secrecy of my own room. 2 “And you?” I hesitate to ask. The pulse of normativity threatens to eclipse...
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Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2020) 9 (3): 48–77.
Published: 23 September 2020
..., “Our bodies are our only means of knowing the world; our experience is given to us through our bodies. We inhabit the material world; we live in it and are not observers of it.” 19 This understanding suggests a necessary elevation of the body alongside the mind to account for the energetic ebbs...
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By highlighting a collaborative praxis between performative interviewing and affect theories, this essay theorizes interpretive discernment as an orientational and conceptual foundation that paves the way for performative interviewing. Interpretive discernment—the process of sensing and interpreting affective registers—encompasses both a methodological orientation and an analytical heuristic. We argue that interpretive discernment builds an interpretive architecture that expands our vocabulary, heightens our ability to listen for the affective in interviews, homes in on methodological nuances that enrich critical qualitative approaches to interviewing, and provides a structure to performative interviewing analysis.