Radical Research

Schostak, John; Schostak, Jill

doi:10.4324/9780203939925

Cited by 12 publications

(6 citation statements)

References 0 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…1 This distinguishes them from interdisciplinary collaborations between neighboring disciplines like music and history or physics and chemistry. Note that radically interdisciplinary research is not the same as "radical research" (as found in "radical humanities," for example) where the label of radicality typically highlights exceptionally high societal impact or inter-sectorial bridgebuilding (e.g., Schostak & Schostak, 2007).…”

Section: Forms Of Interdisciplinaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“MusicLab Copenhagen”: The Gains and Challenges of Radically Interdisciplinary Concert Research

Danielsen,

Paulsrud,

Hansen

2023

Music & Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

The pioneering “research concerts” of recent decades represent prime examples of interdisciplinary music research. MusicLab Copenhagen, a collaboration between RITMO Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies in Rhythm, Time, and Motion at the University of Oslo and the Danish String Quartet was no exception in this regard. This paper aims to document and critically evaluate key components of the project by framing it as a radically interdisciplinary research collaboration. We review the multidimensional differences and similarities between the research traditions involved and report on semi-structured interviews with five key project members. This, in turn, forms the basis for a critical discussion of organizational aspects, aims, values, and overt and covert hierarchies resulting from the meeting of divergent scientific disciplines. Ultimately, we review the practical, epistemological, and theoretical gains and challenges involved in conducting organizationally complex research at the vanguard of interdisciplinarity—both in general terms and within music research in particular. A set of recommendations is provided for conducting successful research concerts, emphasizing, among other things, the importance of providing realistic and artistically satisfying concert experiences while still collecting valid, reliable, and sufficient data; of matching expectations about what can and cannot be achieved and concluded from the collected data; of prioritizing organizational competence and infrastructure, striking a balance between top-down control and bottom-up initiatives; and of recognizing and respecting each other's expertise across the involved research disciplines.

show abstract

Section: Forms Of Interdisciplinaritymentioning

confidence: 99%

“MusicLab Copenhagen”: The Gains and Challenges of Radically Interdisciplinary Concert Research

Danielsen,

Paulsrud,

Hansen

2023

Music & Science

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…This kind of democratic subject in the context of methodology demonstrates responsibility to support the scholarly work of other scholars, citizens, and community members who produce knowledge differently. Schostak and Schostak (2008) noted that democracy becomes “an object of hate for those who see it as undermining their claims to universality” (p. 91). Democracy represents a place where “old evidences of an uncontestable reality melt and explanations and understandings no longer hold” (p. 91).…”

Section: Implications For Creativity In Education and Education Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creative Methods for Creativity Research(ers)? Speculations

Koro‐Ljungberg

Pedersen

2022

Review of Research in Education

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Creativity forms a part of educational curriculum and is an important element of education research. Clearly, creativity research of the past has made a great impact in the ways in which creativity has been integrated within education and educational practice. Yet how creativity has been studied and how the methodologies of these studies shape produced knowledge and impact educational practice are still rather limited and limiting. This chapter calls for methodological experimentation, various forms of performativity, and creativity in the context of research utilizing speculative wonderings. We situate our arguments in different trends in creativity research and discuss more methodologically diverse, speculative, and creative futures.

show abstract

“…I started by offering an explanation of why an alternative approach to re-search and representation was necessary. I explained the radical (Schostak and Schostak, 2008) departures from mainstream re-search that inspired me, and placed my own work within traditions of alternative, authentic, and arts-informed research. Next, I made the case for creating a desecr(e)ative space for re-presenting my work.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Following this Introduction, in a section entitled 'Interlude', I explore my personal motivations for undertaking this thesis, and the writing and life events that have influenced my attempts to produce radical (Schostak & Schostak, 2008) re-search. This interlude offers answers to re-search question four.…”

Section: Thesis Structurementioning

confidence: 99%

(The) Margin(s) Speak! A Multifaceted Examination of Practising ‘Men who have Sex with Men’ Development in Bangkok

Burford¹

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

<p>In this study, I explore the experiences and understandings of twenty-seven participants involved with ‘men who have sex with men’ (MSM) development interventions in Bangkok, seeking to better understand the complex realities that emerge in practising MSM development. I endeavor to interrogate the development field’s limited understandings of sexuality as well as the discourses present (and absent) in existing Queering Development research. By acknowledging my personal journey in and through this re-search, I also examine authentic ways-of-being a queeresearcher, noting the challenges I faced and power I discovered in re-searching and re-presenting my own work. Ultimately, I explore the link between the paucity of local developing queer narratives in Queering Development and the limited space students have, to be visibly queer in mainstream theses – to do this I use the metaphor of ‘the margins’. In framing this re-search, I draw nourishment from queer, critical, poststructural and Participatory Action Research epistemologies. Methodologically, I carried out semi-structured interviews and focus groups, as well as using other tools such as mapping and story writing. I also spent time ‘hanging out’ at both Rainbow Sky and Bangkok Rainbow, enabling both a deeper appreciation of the work carried out by the organisations as well as providing an opportunity to gather materials. The generation of data did not cease once I left ‘the field’; I continued to produce autoethnographic texts including poetry and a re-search performance which I used both as a method of enquiry and re-presentation of this study. This multifaceted approach enabled diverse questions (emerging across disciplines) to be addressed in my work. To re-present my analyses of participants’ accounts I have celebrated different ways-of-knowing re-search. I have used poetry and consciously performative writing, visual art (including graffiti) and performance alongside traditional scholarly prose. This approach enables multiple voices to emerge all over the page, questioning the hegemony of the bound, straight-lined thesis and the ‘legitimate’ knowledges it generally contains. I argue that queer postgraduate students may be able to open spaces to produce authentic work, despite pressures to perform straight research texts. Yet, pressures to conform to traditional understandings of theses may be painful reminders of their own positions in academia and society. Overall, my study offers intimate, multifaceted perspectives on the agency of MSM development practitioners in Bangkok and my own experience of finding power through queeresearch. I hope it will contribute to more nuanced understandings of local practitioners of MSM development in Queering Development literature, and to scholarship on queer postgraduate students’ experience of re-search more generally.</p>

show abstract

Radical Research

Cited by 12 publications

References 0 publications

“MusicLab Copenhagen”: The Gains and Challenges of Radically Interdisciplinary Concert Research

“MusicLab Copenhagen”: The Gains and Challenges of Radically Interdisciplinary Concert Research

Creative Methods for Creativity Research(ers)? Speculations

(The) Margin(s) Speak! A Multifaceted Examination of Practising ‘Men who have Sex with Men’ Development in Bangkok

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About