Abstract
Through arts-based approaches, I play with data-ghosts as research praxis with posthuman and hauntological theories. By conceptualising data-ghosts as dubious shards of haunting data that bother and play havoc over and through time, I ponder data-ghosts' haunting remnants and in what ways they shoo in vulnerabilities. In turning to notice what is left behind and unresolved from haunting, I notice early childhood as jam packed full of spectralities entangled with deficit, inequality and injustice that continue to shape everyday experiences and all its futurities. But what vulnerabilities unfold from thinking with haunting traces with bigger questions that leave seemingly unsurmountable problematics? And can spending time with the spectral also conjure hopefulness? Through using arts-based practices, I put to work data-ghosts as playful, hopeful but unruly forms of research that entangle ethical response-abilities on micro and macro scales. With examples of data-ghosts, I imagine the kinds of responses data-ghosts might provoke with what research practice throws in my (and your) path:
What are traces of hauntings in early childhood?
How do hauntings manifest?
Why do hauntings bring our attention to ethical response-ability beyond the human in research praxis?
Where do hauntings take us in imagining early childhood yet to come?
To what extent might generative and affirmative methodological playfulness with data-ghosts offer in how to put to work complex theories with more-than-language modalities?
What does play with data-ghosts do to interrupt research and how can arts-based approaches bring some hopeful spaces for early childhood?
What are traces of hauntings in early childhood?
How do hauntings manifest?
Why do hauntings bring our attention to ethical response-ability beyond the human in research praxis?
Where do hauntings take us in imagining early childhood yet to come?
To what extent might generative and affirmative methodological playfulness with data-ghosts offer in how to put to work complex theories with more-than-language modalities?
What does play with data-ghosts do to interrupt research and how can arts-based approaches bring some hopeful spaces for early childhood?
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 8 Jan 2025 |
Event | European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry - University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom Duration: 8 Jan 2025 → 10 Jan 2025 Conference number: 8 https://ecqi2025.exordo.com/programme/presentation/214 |
Conference
Conference | European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry |
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Country/Territory | United Kingdom |
City | Edinburgh |
Period | 8/01/25 → 10/01/25 |
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Keywords
- hauntology
- data-ghost
- ethical response-ability
- posthuman