The relation is the smallest unit of analysis.
Haraway 2003:24
The world is largely messy.
Contemporary social science
methods are hopelessly bad at knowing that mess. Indeed it is
that dominant approaches to method work with some success to
repress the very possibility of mess.
Law 2003:3
Welcome!
This blog has been established following the symposium ‘Flows, Doings, Edges: Writing a relational PhD’ which was held at Kings College, London on 28 August, 2007.
This is a place where participants can stay in touch, and invite along other postgraduates working with(in) or around a relational/material-semiotic/ ontological framework from any social science discipline. Feel free to post comments, questions, queries or provocations related to your research, book and conference reviews, notice of upcoming events, recommendations for texts or anything else you can think of.
We have made some of these spaces into categories (look right), but feel free to suggest new ones!
The workshop ’Flows, Doing Edges II’ is being planned for 6-7 March 2008 at the Open University, so keep these days free. Unfortunately, this workshop will be delayed due to funding issues (where is the money?!). But a new round of proposal and emails flurry and we are back on track, though it would more likely take place nearer the autumn term…we will keep you posted!
