VOLUME 11(3) • 2023
Epistemic Media: Their History and Relations to Subjectivity
ABSTRACT. In this article, I wish to offer the notion of epistemic media as a theoretical concept. The concept refers to media forms and media practices geared primarily not for communication but for rendering data and information into knowledge. Epistemic media is historically contingent as it emer..
Slow Scholarship Looped in Dark Ecology: A Mortonian Perspective on the Scholarship of Teaching & Learning
ABSTRACT. The impact of work intensification on scholarship has emerged as a poignant issue for higher education. The neoliberal university’s obsession with outcomes, efficiency and socio-economic ends produces a culture of haste at odds with the adequate performance of scholarship. This obsession e..
An Indigenous Ethics of Visual Research
ABSTRACT. Although reflection on the ethics of visual research has moved beyond the ‘big four’ principles of autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice to embrace a situated and relational ethics that acknowledges institutional, social and cultural expectations about research and aims to inv..
Reconceptualising Early Childhood Teachers’ Responses as Political Dialogues
ABSTRACT. In this paper, I aim to reconceptualise how early childhood education (ECE) teachers respond to issues they perceive to be of political concern in everyday interactions. To do so, I introduce the interdisciplinary term teachers’ political dialogues to delve into these responses’ nuanced an..
On Virtual Mobility in Three Central European Universities: Similar but Different?
ABSTRACT. This article examines the patterns and determinants of virtual mobility among students in the social sciences and humanities at three universities in Central Europe: University of Hradec Kralove (HKU) in the Czech Republic, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan (AMU) in Poland and Constantine..
The Limits of Control: The Smart Grid as Energy Commons?
ABSTRACT. The transition to smart grids for electricity distribution holds out the promise of civic energy autarchies: self-sufficient local electricity networks based on renewable sources, low demand and citizen participation. We outline a set of critical propositions that attend to how investments..