Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Vorlesungsverzeichnis

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Veranstaltungen von Postdoc Lydia Jørgensen

Lehrveranstaltungen

Performative methods (Seminar)

Inhalt: The seminar aims to provide students with an understanding of and practical experience with performative methods. Performative research is a research approach that owes its origins to the so-called performative turn in the humanities and social sciences. With the performative turn in social research a fundamental shift away from a universal methodological culture towards a variety of methods is envisioned. Empirical interest is not mainly directed at internal or external reasons, but at everyday practices, situations and the implicit knowledge embodied in them. Inspired by art practices and artistic research, performative methods allow researchers to incorporate creative practices and creative output into the research design and research output. Engaging with the ambivalent and sometimes destabilizing effect of artistic-aesthetic processes further entails a critical view on traditional research methods and their limits as to e.g. embodied knowledge and the dichotomization of theory and practice. For the purposes of this seminar, method is not seen as ‘just as tool’ in conduting research, but an aesthetic inspired practice that offers different perspectives on how we know and learn. This challenges existing ‘scientific’ norms of doing research in order to bring other perspectives and phenomena to the fore such as affective, aesthetic and embodied knowledge as well as addresses the researchers (power) position of knowledge. The seminar will zoom in on recent performative methods, and endeavours to ‘test’ their applicability and potency. To do so, the seminar will introduce selected recent debates on performative research, which reflect underlying ontological, epistemological and methodological assumptions. Based on these debates, students will be asked to conduct fieldwork as the ground for exploring and reflecting upon different performative methods. To do that, the seminar will dedicate specific sessions to experiment and engage with different performative methods to get an understanding of it practical use and implementation. Finally, student will engage with critically assessing the methods used.