NON-REPRESENTATIONA

RESEMCH MElHOOOLOGtES
an introduction
, , By animating lifeworlds non-representational research styles aim to enliven
rather than report, to render rather than represent, to resonate rather than
validate, to rupture and reimagine rather than to faithfully describe, to
generate possibilities of encounter rather than construct representative
ideal types (15).

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1 life is movement Events (concentrates)

2 anti-biographical/pre-indiviudal Relations (privileges)

l practice, action, performance Doings (focuses)

4 relational materialism Affects (analyzes)

5 animates rather than reports Backgrounds (examine)

6 affective capacities of bodies

7 ethics builts on the craftsmanship
of everyday life

, , But what truly distinguishes the non- Research methods:

representational research from others is procedures for collecting
a different orientation to the temporality of material
knowledge, for non-representationalists
are much less interested in representing Research strategies:
an empirical reality that has taken place procedures for the
before the act of representation than they treatment of data
are in enacting multiple and diverse Research methodologies:
potentials of what knowledge can the bodies of knowledge
become afterwards (12). that shape the above two

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Nathaniel A Rivers, 2020