Doing Rebellious Research: In and Beyond the Academy

The ways in which research and scholarship are co-produced, co-performed and proclaimed as particular kinds of knowledges and truths in and beyond the academy is radically changing. The capacity to write rebelliously, in varying registers and voices, tempos and volumes, as featured across this book, is boundaryless. In this edited volume, we ask new questions which simultaneously trouble and open up what the ’product’ and ’performance’ of academic work, words and worlds might come to be. At the heart of this book, we move between departing radically from academic writing to arriving at a new academic endeavor and transaction between reader and text driven by the invitation to open rebellion in academic research and writing.

This unique volume brings together an extraordinary range of international scholars, researchers and artists, that include contemporary social scientists, critical theorists, visual artists, poets, musicians, hip-hoppers, choreographers, activists, film-makers, theatre-makers, magicians, and circus artists from both within and outside the academy in Europe, UK, India, Africa, USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. They articulate new concepts for thinking differently, generate new theories differently, and present new methods of writing differently. This book provides ’permission’ to depart radically in academic writing and creative practice - particularly for doctoral and higher degree research students, and those who work alongside them as supervisors and advisors and higher research degree educators. The claim here is that rebellious departures and performances in academic research and writing are the future of academia. This book provides a series of steps toward preparing for that future.

Pamela Burnard is Professor of Arts, Creativities and Educations at The University of Cambridge, UK. Her research advances a theory of multiple creativities, from early childhood, school sectors to higher education and creative/cultural industries.

Elizabeth Mackinlay is Professor of Education in the Southern Cross University where she teaches Research Methods, Gender Studies and Arts Education. Her book, Teaching and Learning like a Feminist: Storying Our Experiences in Higher Education was published by Sense Publishers in 2016.

David Rousell is Senior Lecturer in Creative Education at RMIT University, and a core member of the Creative Agency Lab and Digital Ethnography Research Centre (DERC). David’s research combines his scholarship in affect studies, process philosophy and posthumanism with his creative practice as an environmental artist, educator and ethnographer.

Tatjana Dragovic is a doctoral educator and a leader of the EdD (Doctorate of Education) research community at the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge, UK. She is also an Associate Professor of Management, Leadership Excellence and Business Coaching at the Faculty of Organisation Studies in Slovenia.