Posthuman co-production: becoming response-able with what matters

Renold, E. J. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6472-0224 and Ivinson, Gabrielle 2022. Posthuman co-production: becoming response-able with what matters. Qualitative Research Journal 22 (1) , pp. 108-128. 10.1108/QRJ-01-2021-0005

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Abstract

Purpose This paper introduces the concept of posthuman co-production. It explores how processual and relational onto-epistemologies inform an artful, response-able (Barad 2007) feminist new materialist praxis that decentres the human and re-centres matter. Design/methodology/approach Posthuman co-production gives prominence to crafting “dartaphacts” (Renold, 2018); creative research artefacts, carrying “what matters” and enacting change that can be mapped across time and multiple “problem spaces” (Lury, 2020), as an expansive, post-qualitative praxis of slow, co-production. Findings The paper stories this praxis across three “fugal figurations” providing glimpses into the post-qualitative journeys of assembled dartaphacts in the policy and practice field of relationships and sexuality education (RSE) in Wales. Each fugue hints at the polytical, resourceful and living potential of dartaphacts in the making and their mattering over a period of six years. Collectively, they chart a rhizomatic journey that re-configures co-production as a response-able, becoming-with what matters. Originality/value As more-than-human forces for change, dartaphacts continue to surface “the cries of what matters” (Stengers 2019) for children and young people well beyond the periods of funded research and engagement, giving new meaning to the sustainability and material legacies of research impact.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Social Sciences (Includes Criminology and Education)
Publisher:	Emerald
ISSN:	1443-9883
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	28 September 2022
Date of Acceptance:	13 January 2022
Last Modified:	07 Nov 2023 10:27
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/152910

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