Open research questions in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
73 unresolved questions extracted from the limitations and future-work sections of 8,114 Posthumanist Ethics and Activism papers in our library. Each links back to the study that raised it.
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Exploring members’ categorization activities during interactions in astronomy communication sessions – people looking at objects in the sky through telescopes and using the naked eye – convinced us that the state-of-the-art in MCA is insufficiently sensitive to account for category work within these sessions.
Despite abundant research on the tactics employed by far-right groups to instil ideologies, behaviours and sentiments in their followers, such as street demonstrations, investigations into the meaning-making of far-right actions in relation to the trajectories of the participants’ lives remain scarce.
We explain that this dominant narrative (1) increases loneliness and makes people feel worse about this experience, (2) does not account for important predictors of loneliness, (3) guides us to interventions that do not produce sufficiently effective or sustainable change, and (4) hinders broader understandings of the societal impact of loneliness.
Here, trans* epistemology evokes the “potential generative nature of dis/embodying trans*ness” by asking, “What happens when we think trans* rather than just when we are trans*?”9 Essentially, having my trans body in classrooms, in departmental meetings, and on committees is insufficient in stimulating the academy’s trans*formation, if I am not simultaneously trans*ing HESA.
Finally, mobile monologues bring-out understudied dimensions of conviviality: (1) the situated performance of local narratives, (2) the circulation of moral economies of neighbourliness, (3) the contested political resignification of vernacular notions and practices in relation to discourses of living together.
Contested Multiplicities and Mobile Monologues: The Poetics and Politics of Conviviality in the Plural · 2022 · DOIWhen people think about toleration from a pedagogical perspective, as a virtue to be cultivated, attention naturally focuses on the latter: how do we teach someone to control herself, to take the other’s perspective, et cetera; and how do we make sure someone develops ‘tolerant’ views? Discussions about this virtually always concern the same topics, however; critical reflection on the objects of (in)tolerance are lacking.
As the concept is complex and not well understood,14 the following is a brief and simplified summary, intended only for understanding the forces against which qualitative researchers are working today.
Situated at the under-researched intersection of critical disability and mobilities research, it draws on the findings of a two-year study that examined how people with sight impairment in the UK negotiate and experience a sense of wellbeing (or otherwise) with and through diverse types of everyday nature.
‘Never mind the bullocks’: animating the go-along interview through creative nonfiction · 2020 · DOIEarly work on sensemaking suggested that dissonance reduction contributed to perceived plausibility (Weick, 1995) but this notion remains understudied (Weick, 2020).
Working with photographs as sensory objects of affect, and using as examples Belgian and Luxembourg open-air schools and associated sanitary and social welfare provisions, the paper explores issues that have gone under-researched in sensory scholarship internationally: those of precise educational purposes, methods, processes and effects of sensory engagement, particularly pertaining to “smell”.
Odorous childhoods and scented worlds of learning: a sensory history of health and outdoor education initiatives in Western Europe (1900s-1960s) · 2019 · DOIThe author’s point of departure is the assumption that autoethnography is not solely a current in socio-cultural anthropology where anthropologists are focused on themselves, nor is it limited to the genre of anthropological literature in which the experiences and emotions of fieldwork researchers are displayed in the foreground.
Little is known regarding how NPM plays out on the ground in local sites and how, in interacting with the culture it creates, professionals locate themselves and their work.
I attempt to clarify the leading concept “upbuilding examples”, sketch the difference between upbuilding, education and Bildung, refer to works of art that seem to have upbuilding possibilities, and consider why upbuilding examples should be studied and how they could be studied in small self-governed groups of adults.
Bernstein (1983) tells us that “only in a dialogic encounter with what is not understood, with what is alien, with what makes a claim upon us, can we open ourselves to risking and testing our preconceptions and prejudices” (p.
Psychoanalysis has a long history of influence in the study of collective behaviour, and this paper argues that it has a great deal to contribute to the study of one vitally important and under-researched aspect of social movement activity; the fantasies activists have about life in the social worlds they would like to see in the future.
Abstract Wanting to catalyse new approaches to interdisciplinary inquiry and practice within the field of journalism, media, and cultural studies (JMC), Shepperson reconceived interdisciplinary relationships in the light of the highly original-and still not fully understood-work of the American scientist, philosopher and logician, C.
which works from a phenomenological interactionist rather than a behaviorist approach to meanings, and existential sociology which attempts a synthesis of some of these diverse perspectives. (Lyman and Scott, 1970). While these perspectives have contri- butions to make to sociological theory and methods just how radical each school is can be judged on the basis of how much they admit of a shared symbolic world as the grounds for social order. Most of these schools allow considerable room for this &dquo;cultural&dquo; element. The &dquo;Sociology of the Absurd&dquo;, for example, argues that the meaningful basis of action resides in actors’ accounts of their actions in terms of shared vocabularies of motives. (Lyman and Scott: 1970). Ethnomethodology, however, claims to break completely with traditional sociology by dealing with precisely that which earlier sociology has ignored or taken for granted. It sets itself the task of discovering the basic practices whereby the social world is constructed. It won’t do, it argues, to use actors’ commonsense mean- ings and interpretations of the world, as other sociologists do, to explain the world.
At the same time, the discussion of thoughtfulness revealed a conceptual difficulty: when tact is tied too closely to the educator’s reflective disposition, its relational ground remains insufficiently clarified.
Yet IIC processes are poorly understood and inherently extend beyond the purview of Western education's rational ways of knowing.
Love and transrational epistemologies: an intimate ethnography of communicating with trees and other beings · 2026 · DOIResearch is needed on how researcher and educator praxis can be reflexively developed to document community knowledge without extraction and to make space for lived rather than codified knowledge.
Future research should examine how to scale grassroots food forest pedagogies beyond individual sites while maintaining the relational, embodied, and community-led characteristics that enable their transformative potential.
The conditions that enable grassroots experimentation – collective agency, mutual care, situated learning, and freedom to (un)learn dominant systems – are critical to sustaining regenerative practice, yet rarely recognized in broader sustainability transitions literature.
Metric-based framings of circularity miss dimensions of ecological regeneration, social connection, and collective wellbeing that conventional circular economy reporting tends to overlook.
ABSTRACT Co‐creation has gained increasing attention in recent decades, yet its application within peace research has remained relatively underexplored, especially in stable societies such as Finland.
The Logos-directed elements of planning and navigating through digital devices are limited to the essential required to progress on the path and enable them to inhabit smooth time, free of the restrictive syncopations of work schedules and pressing obligations.
Most-cited papers in Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
- The Need to Belong: a Deep Dive into the Origins, Implications, and Future of a Foundational Construct · Educational Psychology Review · 2021 · 235 citations
- <i>Cuerpo-Territorio</i>: A Decolonial Feminist Geographical Method for the Study of Embodiment · Annals of the American Association of Geographers · 2020 · 202 citations
- The rise of affectivism · Nature Human Behaviour · 2021 · 195 citations
- Reclaiming the Radical Politics of Self-Care · South Atlantic Quarterly · 2021 · 184 citations
- Sensemaking in the Time of COVID‐19 · Journal of Management Studies · 2020 · 159 citations
- Two Kinds of Unknowing · Hypatia · 2011 · 159 citations
- Belonging as situated practice · Studies in Higher Education · 2021 · 130 citations
- Ethical Autoethnography: Is it Possible? · International Journal of Qualitative Methods · 2021 · 107 citations
- ‘Becoming mainstream’: the professionalisation and corporatisation of digital nomadism · New Technology Work and Employment · 2020 · 101 citations
- Transformative agency as warping: how collectives accomplish change amidst uncertainty · Pedagogy Culture and Society · 2020 · 95 citations
Most recent work
- Brave space-making as witnessing · Journal of Applied Communication Research · 2026
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- The Air is Not Yours Alone: Feminist Pedagogies, Embodied Resistance, and Ecological Learning in Nguter, Central Java · Australian Feminist Studies · 2026
- From Testimony to Appropriation: A Radical Intersectional Critique of <i>The Help</i> · Critique Studies in Contemporary Fiction · 2026
- Decentring human emergences with bodyplace <i>brute</i> · Qualitative Research Journal · 2026
- The Aesthetics of Impact: Making Impact Beautiful, Not Just Useful · Business & Society · 2026
- Misfits: Towards a critical analysis of the in-between · Critique of Anthropology · 2026
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- Odd man in: A critical appreciation of the work of Phil Cohen · Crime Media Culture An International Journal · 2026
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