Ethics as a minor form of politics and theory in activist research
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Reinertsen, A. B. & Ryen, A. (2024). Ethics as a minor form of politics and theory in activist research. Diametros: An Online Journal of Philosophy, 80, 59-74. https://doi.org/10.33392/diam.1925Abstract
To do minor activist research is to make use of prompts and displacements to mark and produce new subjectivities, spatialities, and temporalities. To do minor activist research is to unsettle received discourses, narratives, and material social practices of power to develop means of resistance in new and different registers. Training the imagination for a collaboratively accomplished re/presentation of data through creating points of encounters, engendering affirmative perspectivists ethos. Re/presenting data as a space in which own thinking is challenged providing a perspective of the storying practices across participants and across different disciplinary, ideological, or personal boundaries within the researcher´s and the researched specific positioning. It requires getting everyone to participate in the ‘analysis’ of data and then getting everyone ‘inside’ the text: situating data-inquiries in immanence. It therefore demands a liberation from old scripts, and challenges how everyone is transformed into text. A perspectivist ethos being simultaneously means and objective for avoiding reproduction of both old scripts and ethics.