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
Aug 21, 2025Page count
272 pagesBrowse the series
Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STSISBN
978-1529244878Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University PressPublished
Aug 21, 2025Page count
272 pagesBrowse the series
Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STSISBN
978-1529244885Dimensions
234 x 156 mmImprint
Bristol University Press
Revisiting Reflexivity
Available 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.
Chapter 1. Introduction. Sarah Davies et al
Chapter 2. Navigating : A user’s guide to ‘Revisiting Reflexivity. Andrea Shikowitz et al
Chapter 3. Automatic reply: Another university is possible. Reuben Message et al
Chapter 4. Is My Work Reflexive Enough? Anne Beaulieu
Chapter 5. Learning to Affect and to be Affected: Articulating Self and World in Empirical Research. Michael Penkler
Chapter 6. Becoming Instrument. Joshua Evans
Chapter 7. care embodied: speaking from a nonbinary, crip, menstrual body. marissa micah schut
Chapter 8. Movement, rest, bodyminds. Ekat Osipova
Chapter 9. Epistemic erasure in participatory research. Dimas D. Laksmana
Chapter 10. Making more liveable worlds beyond academia: reflexivity in collaborative research practice. Camilo Castillo
Chapter 11. Reflecting on Discomfort: Fieldwork with Vaccine-Hesitant Participants During the Covid-19 Pandemic. Barbara Morsello
Chapter 12. Outrageously open: Co-inhabiting and expanding knowledge-making spaces through somatic, arts based methods. Ewa Łączkowska
Chapter 13. An Invitation to who?. Maria Vlachou
Chapter 14. The Third Space Walk: An approach to understanding analogue-digital urban spaces. Mirjana Mitrović
Chapter 15. From model organism to companion species: a laboratory guide to feminist reflexivity in experimental biology research. Lisa Weasel
Chapter 16. An Invitation to Help redecorate a Corner of Discursive Space. Erika Szymanski
Chapter 17. Contemplations: A Perspective on Reflexivity out of the “Brackish Waters” of Artistic Research. Ruth Anderwald & Leonhard Grond
Chapter 18. Reflexivity in artistic research and visual anthropology: Response by Sanderien Verstappen to “Contemplations: A perspective on reflexivity out of the ‘brackish waters’ of artistic research” by Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond. Sanderien Verstappen
Chapter 19. On institutions and institutionalising. Andrea Schikowitz et al.
Chapter 20. Projected reflexivity: learnings from two reflexive research projects from-within, with-within and for-within. Karen Kastenhofer and Doris Allhutter
Chapter 21. Reflexivity in Co-Evaluation: from challenges to principles of participatory research evaluation. Katja Mayer
Chapter 22. Reflexivity, Avoid it Like the Plague?. Annie Patrick
Chapter 23. Situating Reflexivity: Coming Home to STS: Liminality of Research Positions as Mode of Reflexivity within the Academic Field of STS. Nikolaus & Sarah Schönbauer
Chapter 24. A better place for STS? The Art Studio as Heterotopia. Elaine Goldberg
Chapter 25. Why Bogotá?: The Local, the Global and the Interesting, Reflexively or STS - Here and There. Malcolm Ashmore & Olga Restrepo Forero
Chapter 26. Snapshots of Reflexivity. Sarah R Davies, Elaine Goldberg, Andrea Schikowitz, and Fredy Mora-Gámez
Chapter 27. Rethinking Aesthetics, Ontologising Reflexivity. Mike Michael & Alex Wilkie
Chapter 28. Dear Steve: on the contribution of reflexivity to general human well being and livability in the world beyond research. Steve Woolgar
Chapter 29. When Sally met Steve: Virtual Reflexivity. Sally Wyatt
Chapter 30. Whose worlds are more liveable now? Abandoning the alienated ‘blah’. Fredy Mora-Gámez, Elaine Goldberg, Sarah R Davies, and Andrea Schikowitz