Initiatives, research and events where bicycles create positive social change
It’s Halloween season. What a perfect time to explore haunting and ghosts! For our final NM SIG for this year, we are focusing on ghostly matters, and in particular Barad’s (2010) Quantum entanglements and hauntological relations. Barad explores the disjointedness of time through electron behaviours, the nature of entanglement and the ethics of the Bohr/ …
In this session, we are truly transcending time, space, place and bodies as we explore the NM potentialities of reimagining an inspirational, yet relatively, unknown WWII story. We are very excited to have guest presenter Jenny Ginsberg (University of La Trobe) presenting key insights of her recent Master’s research. Jenny is putting together a PhD …
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In this session, we explored: How affect features in queer performance – and what does gender and sexuality have to do with it? We were very excited to have guest presenter Assoc. Prof. Alyson Campbell from the School of Theatre, Victorian College of the Arts (University of Melbourne) to lead us on this curious and …
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For our August New Materialisms SIG, we were delighted to have Dr. Theresa Ashford (USC) share some of her current NM research considerations, thoughts and processes. In this session, we explored how ethics feature in New Materialisms research. NM Session: Ethics in/with classrooms, comics and computers. This session explores the idea of New Materialisms and …
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For this month’s New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG), we thought we would do something different. I recently attended the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2021: Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry, where I presented my session Velo-onto-epistemology: Becoming(s)-with Bicycles, Gender, Education and Research. So instead of having our usual guest presenter, we thought we’d use …
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New Materialisms is the ‘theoretical framing’ I’m using for my bicycle-centered PhD. Being the co-convenor of Griffith’s New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) has helped me get a better handle on this tricky and exciting work and think more deeply about how it relates to different educational contexts. For this month’s NM SIG we …
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Being a posthumanist, embodied researcher means that I think and do things a little differently from mainstream ‘traditional’ researchers. But I am not the only posthumanist researcher. It is very exciting to see increasing more scholars thinking, doing and writing posthumanism project. My work comes under Posthumanism and more specifically New Materialisms. New Materialisms has …
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For this month’s NM SIG meeting, we are putting to work New Materialisms differently. We are using NM to consider more deeply some of the wider and pressing current affairs and social movements of our day. There is much happening locally and globally that is troubling and significant – and these dynamics demand our attention …
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We are very excited to have Dr. Rebecca Olive as guest presenter for our April NM SIG! Sport as encounter: Making kin with ocean and coastal ecologies Rebecca Olive is an ARC DECRA Fellow in the School of Human Movement & Nutrition Sciences at UQ. Her project, Moving Oceans, examines the role of sport (surfing …
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Hooray! Finally! Our New Materialisms (NM) Special Interest Group (SIG) is back on! The March NM SIG is our first meeting back for 2021. I’m so happy! Because we are reconvening after the New Year break, we wanted to offer the opportunity for participants to reconnect more directly. So instead of going straight into guest …
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