The 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 âproductâ and âperformanceâ 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 âpermissionâ to depart radically in academic writing and creative practice â 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.
Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at The University of Cambridge, UK. Her research advances a theory of multiple creativities, from early childhood, school sectors to higher education and creative/cultural industries.
Elizabeth Mackinlay is Professor of Education in the Southern Cross University where she teaches Research Methods, Gender Studies and Arts Education. Her book, Teaching and Learning like a Feminist: Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education was published by Sense Publishers in 2016.
David Rousell is Senior Lecturer in Creative Education at RMIT University, and a core member of the Creative Agency Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). Davidâs research combines his scholarship in affect studies, process philosophy and posthumanism with his creative practice as an environmental artist, educator and ethnographer.
Tatjana Dragovic is a doctoral educator and a leader of the EdD (Doctorate of Education) research community at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She is also an Associate Professor of Management, Leadership Excellence and Business Coaching at the Faculty of Organisation Studies in Slovenia.
âWrite fewer papers, take more risks (â¦): Researchers call for ârebellionâ against academic convention (â¦) which define academic scholarship, arguing that different approaches are needed in an age of climate change, COVID-19 and rising populism.â
- Faculty of Education News (4 June 2022), in , University of Cambridge
âMeet the rebellious researchers embracing rap, magic and circus actsâ in order âto make their work more effective and help them spread their findings among a wider audienceâ by âcalling for a ârebellionâ against traditional forms of outputâ.
- Richard Adams (4 June 2022), in , The Guardian
A Visual Mapping of Topic Flows
Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Notes on Contributors
Prologue
âElizabeth Mackinlay, Pamela Burnard, David Rousell, Tatjana Dragovic and Trisha McCrae
PART 1: Rebellious Theories and Research Methodologies Performed Differently
Part 1: Guidance for Readers
âPamela Burnard
1 Critical Openings in Performing Transdisciplinary Research as/in Rebellion
âPamela Burnard
2 Ten Incitements to Rebellion: Spoken Word as a Social Scientific Research Tool of, and for, Rebellious Research
âHelen Johnson
3 Instructions on How to Research with Circus: Or, How Circus Research Rebels against Circus and Research at Stockholm University of the Arts
âAlisan Funk
4 Walking with(in) Transdisciplinary-Scapes
âCarolyn Cooke
5 Paying Attention: A Bakhtin-Inspired Dialogue about Embodiment and Inclusion in the Musicking Classroom
âMary Earl and Jennie Francis
6 Academic (In)Discipline, Research (In)Sanity and the Conundrum of (Indigenous) Timescapes
âBernd Brabec de Mori
7 Performing Transdisciplinary Creativity by Emersiology with the Living Body
âAntonella Poli and Bernard Andrieu
Part 1: Reflective Questions
PART 2: Rebellious Writings Written Differently: A Manifesto
Part 2: Guidance for Readers
âElizabeth Mackinlay
8 Departing Radically in Academic Writing: Because, a Manifesto
âElizabeth Mackinlay
9 The Zoom Room Rebels: Worlding and Writing a Diffractive Ethics with Performance of Research in the Zoom-I-Verse
âNaomi Lee McCarthy and Eleanor Ryan
10 100 Words Exactly: The Art of Thesis Drabbling
âElizabeth 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
âElizabeth 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 âCo-diffractionâ? Nurturing Permission to Imagine Together Rebelliously in a Doctoral Peer Learning Environment
âPortia Ungley and Kieran Sheehan
13 Donât Just Do Something ⦠Stand There! Two Women Dance Their Academic Trajectories
âSimone Eringfeld and Hilary Cremin
Part 2: Reflective Questions
PART 3: Rebellious Transdisciplinarity Researched Differently
Part 3: Guidance for Readers
âDavid Rousell
14 Performing Rebellious Theory and Methodology: Going All City
âDavid Rousell
15 Animist Pedagogies and the Endings of Worlds: Rituals for the Pluriverse
âDavid Rousell, Eleanor Ryan, Birgitte Bauer-Nilsen and Rachel Lai
16 The Heart of Research: Fictioning and Diffractive Writing as Critical Research Practice
âAnnouchka Bayley
17 Surfacing the Image-inary: Exchanging Sensations of Time through Art, Media, and Pedagogy
âTrisha McCrae, David Rousell and Portia Ungley
18 dreams in the margem: stories from the river
âMarta 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?
âTatjana Dragovic (with Leaders around the World)
19 Critical Openings in Leading Rebelliously
âTatjana Dragovic
20 Leading Rebellious Leaders/ship through Radical Trust and Playfulness
âTatiana Chemi, Anne Pässilä and Allan Owens
21 âItâs Our Museum Too!â: Enacting Change through Rebellious Research in the University Art Museum
âKate Noble
22 Enchanting Educational Settings: Creative Practices from the World of Illusion to Improve Collaborative Learning Schemes and Educational Leadership Protocols
âAntonia Symeonidou, Danilo Audiello and Caterina Garone
23 Hallå STEAM! Performative Recasting of History, Science, Art, Language and Education
âKristof Fenyvesi and Christopher Brownell
24 The Hip-Hopification of Education?
âBREIS (Brother Reaching Each Inner Soul)
Part 4: Reflective Questions
Epilogue: What Happened Here? Writing with a Rebellious Community
âPamela Burnard, Elizabeth Mackinlay and Trisha McCrae
Glossary
Index
As a series of contributions and collaborations that intersect numerous disciplines and fields of practice, this book embraces a zeitgeist of discontent with traditional discourses on how research is understood, conducted and how it is communicated and therefore offers new, experimental and creative ways for academics, practitioners and researchers to do research.