Abstract
Diffraction has emerged as a concept and methodology through opposing reflexivity. In this paper, I argue that reflexivity and diffraction are not external to each other. In contrast, I propose that they blur into each other and so we do not find ourselves using pure reflexivity or diffraction. Furthermore, I contend that categorically distinguishing reflexivity and diffraction can generate practices of exclusion and the unwitting reproduction of what we would like to avoid. Through letting reflexivity and diffraction intra-act, I develop my notion of a diffracted reflexivity. A reflexivity that acknowledges that in reflecting about ourselves we are not representing something but producing something; specifically, we are relating to ourselves in ways that are relationally, culturally and materially enabled, continuously producing ourselves and the world in that process of relating. Consequently, I propose to meta reflexively focus the attention on the ways of relating that we enact and what they produce.
Original language | English |
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Journal | International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education |
Early online date | 19 Mar 2021 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | E-pub ahead of print - 19 Mar 2021 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- reflexivity
- diffraction
- meta-reflexivity
- intra-action
- diffractive reading