"Becoming Molecular Girl": Transforming Subjectivities in Collaborative Doctoral Research Studies as Micro-Politics in the Academy

Autor/in	Lenz Taguchi, Hillevi
Titel	"Becoming Molecular Girl": Transforming Subjectivities in Collaborative Doctoral Research Studies as Micro-Politics in the Academy
Quelle	In: International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 26 (2013) 9, S.1101-1116 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0951-8398
DOI	10.1080/09518398.2013.816886
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Social Sciences; Graduate Students; Doctoral Programs; Feminism; Figurative Language; Cooperation; Self Management; Educational Research; Social Attitudes; Theories; Identification (Psychology); Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Social science; Sozialwissenschaften; Gesellschaftswissenschaften; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; Doktorandenprogramm; Feminismus; Co-operation; Kooperation; Selbstmanagement; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Social attidude; Soziale Einstellung; Theory; Theorie; Schweden
Abstract	In the context of Swedish reforms of postgraduate and doctoral education in a global knowledge economy, this article aims to theorise on the documented processes of doing collaborative analysis during elective graduate course-work on deconstructive methodologies in the social sciences, with 10 doctoral students over a period of seven months. I re-engage with the documentations of our collaborative processes six years later, to read and analyse them diffractively with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari's philosophy, and with feminist post-constructivist theories, such as Rosi Braidotti, Claire Colebrook, Elisabeth Grosz and Patti Lather. In the course-work, we actively aimed--by engaging in different collaborative strategies of deconstructive writing and talking, sharing and re-analysing each other's research data and analyses--to resist "doing philosophy" as an independent, intellectual, disembodied and masculine-coded endeavour. This process made us aware of the tactile embodiment of collaborative deconstructive research strategies, and how they came to transform our subjectivities as researchers. I suggest the "molecular girl" as a metaphor for this transformation as researchers, and claim that the practices we developed constitute a "micro-politics" that contests contemporary transnational trends in knowledge economies, but which might also be understood to work in alignment with such trends. (As Provided).
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