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The Somatechnics of Research: Queering the Production of Knowledge

The Somatechnics of Research: Queering the Production of Knowledge The Somatechnics of Research: Queering the Production of Knowledge Dennis Bruining and Saartje Tack ‘Research is not an innocent or distant academic exercise,’ Linda Tuhiwai Smith argues, ‘but an activity that has something at stake and that occurs in a set of political and social conditions’ (2021: 5). While the seemingly straightforward idea that there is nothing neutral about research is not new, it is sometimes forgotten (or perhaps wilfully ignored), particularly in western contexts. A common perception of (good) research, often conflated with hard science, is indeed that it is free from social values, historical vicissitudes, and political contexts. Yet, research, as well as its closely related concepts of knowledge, methodology, and theory, are all strictly governed by situated sets of regulatory frameworks, which, in their legitimating function of the practices that constitute these concepts, work to conceal the modalities of power through which they operate. In Foucauldian terms, contextually specific regimes of research determine by whom, why, how, and under which conditions research is and can be performed, validated, excluded, and discounted. These regimes furthermore determine the means through which these conditions are both enabled and constrained, and the varied ways in which research constitutes somatechnics. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Somatechnics Edinburgh University Press

The Somatechnics of Research: Queering the Production of Knowledge

Somatechnics , Volume 12 (1-2): 13 – Aug 1, 2022

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Edinburgh University Press
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Copyright © Edinburgh University Press
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2044-0138
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2044-0146
DOI
10.3366/soma.2022.0374
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The Somatechnics of Research: Queering the Production of Knowledge Dennis Bruining and Saartje Tack ‘Research is not an innocent or distant academic exercise,’ Linda Tuhiwai Smith argues, ‘but an activity that has something at stake and that occurs in a set of political and social conditions’ (2021: 5). While the seemingly straightforward idea that there is nothing neutral about research is not new, it is sometimes forgotten (or perhaps wilfully ignored), particularly in western contexts. A common perception of (good) research, often conflated with hard science, is indeed that it is free from social values, historical vicissitudes, and political contexts. Yet, research, as well as its closely related concepts of knowledge, methodology, and theory, are all strictly governed by situated sets of regulatory frameworks, which, in their legitimating function of the practices that constitute these concepts, work to conceal the modalities of power through which they operate. In Foucauldian terms, contextually specific regimes of research determine by whom, why, how, and under which conditions research is and can be performed, validated, excluded, and discounted. These regimes furthermore determine the means through which these conditions are both enabled and constrained, and the varied ways in which research constitutes somatechnics. The

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Published: Aug 1, 2022

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