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Practising Performativity
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Abstract Performativity is a theory of how reality comes into being. It is also a deconstructive practice. This article addresses the question of performativity as an emergent mode of working in social and cultural research. It does so by way of exploring a resear... view more
Performativity is a theory of how reality comes into being. It is also a deconstructive practice. This article addresses the question of performativity as an emergent mode of working in social and cultural research. It does so by way of exploring a research project focusing on prostitution in a multiethnic context in north Norway, carried out by two researchers doing collaborative work on men, sexuality and knowledge. The author’s interest is in exploring performativity as a mode of engaging, aimed at achieving transformations in the terms through which the real is constituted. The author argues that practising performativity requires an openness within the research process to the possibility that researchers and their practices themselves must alter. Such transformative modes of relating seem to be called for in order to develop effective ways of engaging with the present.... view less
Keywords
transformation; prostitution
Free Keywords
methodology; performativity; research practice; sexuality;
Document language
English
Publication Year
2005
Page/Pages
p. 329-344
Journal
European Journal of Women's Studies, 12 (2005) 3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506805054273
Status
Postprint; peer reviewed
Licence
PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project)