Micropolitics of desire: participant self observation, critical autoethnography and the (re)turn to the baroque

Cate Watson; Education in the North

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Micropolitics of desire: participant self observation, critical autoethnography and the (re)turn to the baroque

Cate Watson^* (Corresponding Author), Education in the North

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University of Stirling

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Participant self observation is a form of critical autoethnography developed as a means to theorise institutional identifications and which seeks to unravel the question posed by Gilles Deleuze, ‘why do we desire what oppresses us?’ PSO is located within a baroque framework drawing on the ontology of the fold which entails a rejection of linearity and the embrace of complexity; and the epistemology of the Wunderkammer, created through the collection and artful display of textual, visual and kinaesthetic ‘research objects’. The paper presents a selection of these research objects showing how the analytical handling of these produces the fleetingly glimpsed objects of desire as points of identification.

Original language	English
Number of pages	30
Journal	Education in the North
Volume	17
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.26203/dphc-b317
Publication status	Published - 1 Nov 2009

Keywords

Autoethnography
baroque
Body without Organs
desire
Wunderkammer
fold
institutional identification
participant self observation
Research Assessment Exercise
academy

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