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SUMMARY:What else does researching with  Haraway’s successor science mak
 e possible in childhood studies? - Dr Jayne Osgood\, Professor of Educatio
 n\, Middlesex University
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CONTACT:Araceli Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:This paper aims to reconfigure entrenched ideas about childhoo
 d by considering the possibilities that are generated when attention is tu
 rned to everyday habits\, ordinary routines and mundane situations that pl
 ay out in early childhood contexts and that are integral to the ways in wh
 ich we think. As a feminist researcher\, moving from a decade-long preoccu
 pation to critique\, problematize and deconstruct to a place of embracing 
 and enacting new materialist philosophy in my more recent work\, I am conf
 ronted by a cacophony of ambivalences. There is little doubt that working 
 with feminist new materialism presents certain ontological and epistemolog
 ical shifts in the approaches that can be taken to think more expansively 
 about our relational entanglements in early childhood contexts\; it involv
 es embracing uncertainty and not knowing. \, I offer a generative account 
 of seeking to work with Barad’s (2007:384) conceptualisation of ethics a
 s \nonto-epistemological\, as she states: ‘ethics is about mattering\, a
 bout \ntaking account of the entangled materialisations of which we are pa
 rt\,\n including new configurations\, new subjectivities\, new possibiliti
 es – even\n the smallest cuts matter.\n\nDr Jayne Osgood is Professor of
  Education (Early Years & Gender) based\nat the Centre for Education Resea
 rch & Scholarship\, Middlesex University. \nHer present methodologies and 
 research practices are framed by feminist\n new materialism. She has publi
 shed extensively within the postmodernist\n paradigm including Special Iss
 ues of the journal Contemporary Issues in \nEarly Childhood (2006\, 2016 a
 nd 2017) and Narratives from the Nursery: \nnegotiating professional ident
 ities in Early Childhood (Routledge\, 2012) \nand currently Feminist Thoug
 ht in Childhood Research (Bloomsbury Series).\n She is a member of several
  editorial boards including Contemporary Issues\n in Early Childhood\, Bri
 tish Education Research Journal\, and is Co-Editor\n of Gender & Education
  Journal and Co-Editor of Reconceptualising\nEducation Research Methodolog
 y. \n
LOCATION: Donald McIntyre Building\, Faculty of Education\, 184 Hills Road
 \, room GS1
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