Accountabilities of posthuman research

Citation

Thompson TL & Adams C (2020) Accountabilities of posthuman research. Explorations in Media Ecology, 19 (3), pp. 337-349. https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00050_7

Abstract
What constitutes ‘good’ posthuman research? This article offers three dynamics to help assess the value of posthuman-inspired inquiry. We propose that a good posthuman research account should show evidence that the researcher: (1) attended to their own more-than-humanness and made explicit how they interviewed and attuned to the nonhuman things of their inquiry; (2) reassembled resemblings of the posthuman world by inventively weaving and fusing human and nonhuman storylines; and (3) offered analytic insights into the liveliness of posthuman research work as the performativity of difference.

Keywords
credibility; more-than-human; posthuman; posthuman accounts; qualitative research; quality; rigour

Journal
Explorations in Media Ecology: Volume 19, Issue 3

People

Dr Terrie-Lynn Thompson

Senior Lecturer, Education