Dialogues on Agential Realism

<p><em>Dialogues on Agential Realism</em> is built up around dialogues with key scholars in the field: Magdalena Górska Astrid Schrader Elizabeth de Freitas Ericka Johnson and Karen Barad. The book investigates agential realist-inspired research practices and provides illustrations of what response-able knowledge production may involve. </p><p>Based on thorough readings of the scholars’ work careful dialogues concerning the challenges messiness thrill and inventiveness of research processes are brought to the fore. The dialogues with Górska Schrader de Freitas and Johnson were based on specific research projects which drew inspiration from agential realist theory in combination with the ideas of other thinkers. The dialogue with Barad focuses on the continuous development of agential realism. In addition the book consists of a chapter that introduces agential realism and a closing chapter focusing on some of the main insights agential realism has to offer in relation research practices.</p><p>The book offers new entry points to agential realism and the conduct of research. It may vitalize methodological prudence and creativity and spark new and previously unimagined ways of thinking and doing research. As such it will be an essential resource to both newcomers and scholars and students who are already familiar with the theory of agential realism. </p>