Data-ghost 👻 dialogues: Playing and questioning future directions with hauntology and posthuman theories in educational research-creation

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Abstract

In this experimental research-creation paper, I put to work 3D digital artworks to imagine dialogues between myself and my 👻 data-ghosts that question the direction of early childhood educational research methodologies that work with posthuman and hauntological theories. By conceptualising 👻 data-ghosts as unpredictable kinds of haunting data that irritate and disrupt over and through time, I unfold the vulnerabilities of ethical-responsibility where the spectral is embraced. Because posthuman and hauntological theories have a small and growing scholarship in early childhood that move away from the humancentric as starting points for enquiry, it is useful to pose questions that might guide its future. Through using arts-based practices, I visualise 👻 data-ghosts to ponder what or who might be absent (or present, or just not here yet) to trouble the social justice issues bound up with being and becoming response-able education researchers working without methodological roadmaps. Through this paper I imagine the kinds of answers my 👻 data-ghosts might give to ethical conundrums that research practice throws in my path: What do hauntings want of research? How do posthuman and hauntology relate? Why do hauntings bring our attention to ethical response-ability beyond the human in research praxis? Where do hauntings take us in imagining the future ghost(s) of data(s) yet to come? What can dialogue with our 👻 data-ghosts do to interrupt research and take alternative pathways that work with educational justice and early childhood research?
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 26 Jun 2024
EventAnnual Conference on Research in Education: The purpose, politics, and prospects of the university - Edge Hill University
Duration: 3 Jul 2024 → 5 Jul 2024

Conference

ConferenceAnnual Conference on Research in Education
Period3/07/24 → 5/07/24

Research Groups

  • Children's Rights and Wellbeing Research Network

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