This book fosters new links between non-representational theories and more-than-human perspectives. Offering multidisciplinary perspectives, from geography and anthropology, to social theory and qualitative research methodologies, it reimagines the boundaries of research by arguing for a new concept of “data.”
Original, bold, and creative contributions provocatively push us to reimagine what is meant by data. No longer something we can unproblematically understand as an empirical given, the notion of data is reimagined as the relational outcome of encounters, engagements, attachments, and more-than-human relations. As such, the book expands the field of non-representational scholarship, challenging the ideas of data collection, analysis, and representation.
This innovative book provides a courageous contemporary theoretical and methodological intervention. It will be valuable for students, researchers, and arts practitioners across the social sciences and will serve as the beginning of new methodological dialogues for years to come.
Table of Contents:
1 More-than-data? An introduction to vitalist methodologies
Phillip Vannini
PART 1 Encountering new kinds of data
2 What if the world wasn’t data? Toward a kin-study with dragonflies
Sarah Wright and Lara Daley
3 Rethinking research with Deleuze: Data as difference
Tom Roberts
4 Making microbial data: More-than-representational methods for encountering viruses, bacteria, and other microbes
Beth Greenhough, Jamie Lorimer, Joshua Evans, and Oscar Hartman Davies
5 Tourist bodies and places in a changing climate: Extreme weather as lively data
Jonas Larsen and Martin Trandberg Jensen
6 Tinkering with comparison of climate changes in Greenland and the Alps: Data as vibrant connections
Carina Ren and Monica Nadegger
PART 2 Art-inspired encounters with new kinds of data
7 Ecosomatics, non-representational theory, and the cripped body: Data as contingent in performative research encounters
Candice P. Boyd
8 Engaging with the Earth’s voice: Data as caring attachments
Outi Rantala and Emily Höckert
9 On becoming intimate with scorched earth: Research-creation and infrathin data
Christian Edwardes
10 Beyond coding in qualitative analysis: The wonder, aberration, and vitality of hazy data
Phillip Vannini and April Vannini
PART 3 Encountering new kinds of data in health and well-being
11 Non-representational theory in health research: Disciplinary, ontological and epistemological positions
Gavin J. Andrews, Richard Gorman, Chloe Asker and Alexander Wray
12 Researching animals and health more-than-representationally: Working with lively data
Richard Gorman
13 Rethinking mindfulness research: Data as vitalist practice
Chloe Asker
14 Studying health and cycling: Working with emergent data
Gavin J. Andrews
15 Tracing the liveliness of daily data with geographic ecological momentary assessment and mobile technology
Alexander Wray
About the Author :
Phillip Vannini is a Professor in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University in Victoria, BC, Canada.
