Writing difference differently |
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| Authors: | Karen Fisher Miriam Williams Stephen FitzHerbert Lesley Instone Michelle Duffy Sarah Wright Sandie Suchet‐Pearson Kate Lloyd Laklak Burarrwanga Ritjilili Ganambarr Merrkiyawuy Ganambarr‐Stubbs Banbapuy Ganambarr Djawundil Maymuru Bawaka Country |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Environment, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand;2. Discipline of Geography and Environmental Studies, Centre for Urban and Regional Studies, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia;3. School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University Manawatu, Palmerston North, New Zealand;4. School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Federation University Australia, Churchill, Vic., Australia;5. Department of Geography and Planning, Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW, Australia;6. PACE (Professional and Community Engagement), Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW;7. Bawaka Cultural Experiences, C/‐Lirrwi Yol?u Tourism Aboriginal Corporation, Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia |
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| Abstract: | This paper investigates the writing of situated knowledge and explores the possibilities of enacting difference by writing differently. We present a selection of research stories in which carrier bags, sounds, baskets, gardens and potatoes are interpreted less as objects of research or metaphors to aid in analysing phenomena, than as mediators of the stories. Our stories emphasise the ontological politics of engaging with and representing the relational, the messy, the spontaneous, the unpredictable, the non‐human and bodily experiences. These stories demonstrate how writing is performative and how it is integral to the production of knowledge. |
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| Keywords: | ontological politics performativity situated knowledge story writing |
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