Practising Performativity
Abstract 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...
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fttrinitycoll:oai:tara.tcd.ie:2262/51980 2023-05-15T17:39:21+02:00 Practising Performativity 2011-03-01T04:34:54Z http://hdl.handle.net/2262/51980 https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273 en eng Sage Publications Sage CA: Thousand Oaks, CA 1350-5068 (ISSN) http://hdl.handle.net/2262/51980 European Journal of Women's Studies 12 3 329 344 doi:10.1177/1350506805054273 Open Access methodology performativity prostitution research practice sexuality transformation 2011 fttrinitycoll https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273 2020-02-16T13:51:28Z Abstract 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. mailto:turid.markussen@skk.uio.no (Markussen, Turid) University of Oslo - (Markussen, Turid) Other/Unknown Material North Norway The University of Dublin, Trinity College: TARA (Trinity's Access to Research Archive) Norway European Journal of Women's Studies 12 3 329 344 |
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Abstract 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. mailto:turid.markussen@skk.uio.no (Markussen, Turid) University of Oslo - (Markussen, Turid) |
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