Revisiting Reflexivity
Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond
Edited by Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Esther Dessewffy, Bao-Chau Pham, Ariadne Avkıran and Kathleen Gregory
Published
Jul 1, 2025Page count
272 pagesBrowse the series
Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STSISBN
978-1529244878Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Jul 1, 2025Page count
272 pagesBrowse the series
Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STSISBN
978-1529244885Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressAvailable open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.
How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today’s neoliberal academia and beyond?
This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, asking how researchers are affected by, and affect, the worlds they engage with. Using experimental formats that challenge academic convention, the volume acknowledges the ‘dark sides’ of reflexivity, while insisting that it is nonetheless worthwhile striving for it.
This volume is essential for anyone interested in creative, playful and always incomplete attempts to refresh reflexivity in research, and in developing more liveable worlds for ourselves and those our research engages with.
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Andrea Schikowitz is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Fredy Mora Gámez is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Elaine Goldberg is a researcher and filmmaker.
Esther Dessewffy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Bao-Chau Pham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Ariadne Avkıran is a PhD student and a sowi:doc fellow (2023) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.
Kathleen Gregory is Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.
Navigating
1. Introduction – Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg
2. Navigating: A user's guide to 'Revisiting Reflexivity' - Sarah R. Davies, Andrea Schikowitz, Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine Goldberg
3. Automatic reply:
Another University is Possible – Jane Calvert, Reuben Message, Rob Smith
Affecting
4. Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Qualitative Research – Michael Penkler
5. Response to chapter 4: Becoming Instrument - Joshua D. Evans
6. Care Embodied: Speaking from a Nonbinary, Crip, Menstrual Body – marissa micah schut
7. Response to chapter 6: Movement, rest, bodyminds - Ekat Osipova
8. Epistemic erasure in participatory research: Embodying transdisciplinary moments as spaces of in-betweenness - Dimas D. Laksmana
9. Reflexive Collaborations in the Making of More Liveable Worlds Beyond Academia - Camilo Castillo
10. Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the Covid-19 Pandemic - Barbara Morsello
Experimenting
11. Outrageously Open: Co-inhabiting and Expanding Knowledge-making Spaces Through Somatic, Arts-based Methods – Ewa Łączkowska
12. Response to chapter 11: an invitation to who? - Maria Vlachou
13. The Third Space Walk: An experimental approach to understanding urban space between the analog and digital - Mirjana Mitroviƈ
14. From Model Organism to Companion Species: A Laboratory Guide to Feminist Reflexivity in Experimental Biology Research – Lisa Weasel
15. An Invitation to Help Redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space - Erika Szymanski
16. Contemplations - A Perspective on Reflexivity through the Windows of Artistic Research - Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond
17. Response to chapter 16: Reflexivity in artistic research and social anthropology - Sanderien Verstappen
Institutionalising
18. On institutions and institutionalising - Andrea Schikowitz, Sarah R. Davies, Elaine Goldberg, and Fredy Mora Gámez
19. Projected Reflexivity: Learnins from two reflexive projects from within, with within and for within – Karen Karstenhofer, Doris Allhutter
20. Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: from challenges to principles of participatory research evaluation - Katja Mayer
21. Situating Reflexivity: Coming home to STS - Nikolaus Pöchhacker and Sarah Schönbauer
22. Reflexivity: Avoid it like the plague? - Annie Patrick
23. A Better Place for STS? The Art Studio as Heterotopia - Elaine Goldberg
24. Why Bogotá? The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively, or, STS - Here and There - Malcolm Ashmore and Olga Restrepo Forero
Reflecting
25. Aesthetics and reflexivity - Mike Michael and Alex Wilkie
26. Is Reflexivity Dead? - Steve Woolgar and Malcolm Ashmore
27. Post-reflexivity: whose worlds are more liveable now - Fredy Mora Gámez, Elaine
Goldberg, Sarah R Davies,
and Andrea Schikowitz