In Conversation with Karen Barad

Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu, Finland, and Emerita Professor of Pedagogy and Philosophy, at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. She is a teacher educator, grounded in academic philosophy and a postqualitative research paradigm. Her main interests are in posthuman child studies, philosophy in education, ethics and democratic pedagogies. www.karinmurris.comVivienne Bozalek is Honorary Professor in the Centre for Higher Education Research, Teaching and Learning at Rhodes University and Emerita Professor in the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Her research interests pertain to the political ethics of care and social justice, posthumanism and feminist new materialisms, innovative pedagogical practices in higher education, and postqualitative and participatory methodologies.

• 1. Introduction: Glimpsing the Colours on the Palette: ° ’ ” Slowing Down Together/Apart. 2. Chapter Night Sky: Temporal Diffraction: A Constellation *** of ‘New’ Electrifying Insights in Conversation with Karen Barad. 3. Chapter Black Blood Matters: Moving Human and Non-human Bodies from ‘Question & Answer’ to a ‘Pedagogy of Questioning’. 4. Chapter Red: Re-membering as a Sacred Practice. 5. Chapter Red Ochre: Marking Time, Marking Bodies: Relations Matter. 6. Chapter Teal: Re-searching Research: Troubling Lines as a Worlding Practice. 7. Chapter Ultramarine: On Aftermaths, Afterlives and Afterimages. 8. Chapter Red Brown: Gestures for Engineering and Medical Education: Drawing on Our Barad Encounter  9. Chapter Orange: Diffracting Drawing. 10. Chapter Iridescent: Th/reading through Mull: Cutting a Fashion Theory Course Together-Apart. 11. (No)End: Rainbow Æffects: Diffracting Colours and Futures Pallets. Index.

"In conversation with a generous South African research community, an ethics of re-turning and staying-with is beautifully unfolded on agential realist philosophy and concepts and a diverse empirical material."Malou Juelskjær, Danish School of Education, Aarhus University, Copenhagen, Denmark"This innovative collection of essays brings Karen Barad’s agential realism to life in the context of South African higher education. Drawing the reader in through playful, performative exchanges, the contributions creatively reimagine multidisciplinary research and rebuild pedagogical practices."Astrid Schrader, University of Exeter, UK"What does it mean to make agential realism a thinking, writing, and collaborative practice? The book addresses this question with immense care guided by deep concern for de/colonializing education in the South African context."Magdalena Górska, Department of Media and Culture Studies, Utrecht University, Netherlands