Making Liveable Worlds: Revisiting Reflexivity as Value and Practice

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How can we nurture more liveable worlds in today’s neoliberal academia and beyond?

This collection revisits the notion of reflexivity from a science and technology studies (STS) perspective, asking how researchers are affected by, and affect, the worlds they engage with. Using experimental formats that challenge academic convention, the volume acknowledges the ’dark sides’ of reflexivity, while insisting that it is nonetheless worthwhile striving for it.

This volume is essential for anyone interested in creative, playful and always incomplete attempts to refresh reflexivity in research, and in developing more liveable worlds for ourselves and those our research engages with.

Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Andrea Schikowitz is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Fredy Mora Gámez is Senior Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Elaine Goldberg is a researcher and filmmaker.

Esther Dessewffy is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Bao-Chau Pham is a PhD candidate in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Ariadne Avkıran is a PhD student and a sowi: doc fellow (2023) in the Department of Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna.

Kathleen Gregory is Researcher at the Centre for Science and Technology Studies at Leiden University.