Practising Performativity
Performativity is a theory of how reality comes into being. It is also a deconstructive practice. This article addresses the question of performativity as an emergent mode of working in social and cultural research. It does so by way of exploring a research project focusing on prostitution in a mult...
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ftssoar:oai:gesis.izsoz.de:document/22486 2023-05-15T17:39:21+02:00 Practising Performativity Markussen, Turid 2012-08-30T04:47:07Z http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22486 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224860 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273 unknown http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/22486 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-224860 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273 PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) European Journal of Women's Studies 12 3 329-344 methodology performativity research practice sexuality transformation prostitution journal article Zeitschriftenartikel 2012 ftssoar https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273 2022-12-13T21:58:24Z Performativity is a theory of how reality comes into being. It is also a deconstructive practice. This article addresses the question of performativity as an emergent mode of working in social and cultural research. It does so by way of exploring a research project focusing on prostitution in a multiethnic context in north Norway, carried out by two researchers doing collaborative work on men, sexuality and knowledge. The author’s interest is in exploring performativity as a mode of engaging, aimed at achieving transformations in the terms through which the real is constituted. The author argues that practising performativity requires an openness within the research process to the possibility that researchers and their practices themselves must alter. Such transformative modes of relating seem to be called for in order to develop effective ways of engaging with the present. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Norway SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository Norway European Journal of Women's Studies 12 3 329 344 |
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Performativity is a theory of how reality comes into being. It is also a deconstructive practice. This article addresses the question of performativity as an emergent mode of working in social and cultural research. It does so by way of exploring a research project focusing on prostitution in a multiethnic context in north Norway, carried out by two researchers doing collaborative work on men, sexuality and knowledge. The author’s interest is in exploring performativity as a mode of engaging, aimed at achieving transformations in the terms through which the real is constituted. The author argues that practising performativity requires an openness within the research process to the possibility that researchers and their practices themselves must alter. Such transformative modes of relating seem to be called for in order to develop effective ways of engaging with the present. |
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