Anna Hickey-Moody

RMIT University | RMIT · School of Media and Communication

In this chapter we explore material and discursive risk assemblages and reflect on our attempts to develop culturally responsive pedagogies that interrupt risk discourses. We draw on arts-based ethnographic data from a school in a deprived area of Manchester to consider how materialities, discourses and practices come together to make the risk disc...

In this paper, I draw on ethnographic fieldwork to develop a conversation between Deleuze and Guattari’s geophilosophy (Deleuze and Guattari in What is philosophy?, Verso Books, London, 1994: pp. 85–113) and concepts within and findings from empirical fieldwork exploring religion, faith and everyday belief systems. This leads to some new ways of th...

Engagement with family stories, religious and community practices can change a teacher’s conception of thought. We propose teaching as thinking-with the world and teaching as thinking-with others. These terms draw on the philosophy of new materialist thinkers in expressing the ontological impacts of context and materiality. We explore the relations...

The overall goal of the ISEE Assessment is to pool multi-disciplinary expertise on educational systems and reforms from a range of stakeholders in an open and inclusive manner, and to undertake a scientifically robust and evidence based assessment that can inform education policy-making at all levels and on all scales. Its aim is not to be policy p...

This article explores qualitative research methods that employ materiality and movement, images and body mapping to access research participant knowledges. We examine a methodologies workshop that we co-facilitated for academics and postgraduates. We position the workshop as a research assemblage, through which we facilitated four different methodo...

Este artículo es una investigación sobre la agencia de la materia y una exposición de los nuevos métodos materialistas que he venido desarrollando como parte de una etnografía multisituada y transnacional que se distingue por las prácticas de arte socialmente comprometidas entre técnicas etnográficas más tradicionales y cualitativas. Creo que, a tr...

In this article, we examine the connection between how we imagine carbon, energy and energy futures, and carbon use. We argue that to act on climate change we must reframe our cultural understanding carbon. Where children have often been left out of discussions of carbon use, we bring children into these conversations about carbon consumption and i...

Initially figured as ‘outside’ the normal confines of fine art institutions, children’s art has since been examined as a source of pure creativity and expression, free from the constraints of adult society. This chapter offers ways of analysing children’s art that are attuned to the creative and complex ways child art is produced. Our analysis move...

This chapter summarises the broader findings of this book and reiterates the impacts and uses of arts-based methods for research with children. Drawing on rich empirical data from the Interfaith Childhoods project, this book offers a theoretical and practical guide to working with children and accounting for the complexities of their lived experien...

This chapter presents both the rationale of and a practical guide to using arts-based methods in research with children. We outline a number of adaptable lesson plans, including guides for activities, strategies for engagement and required materials. We discuss examples from the fieldwork of the Interfaith Childhoods project to demonstrate how appl...

This chapter engages with the embodied and material aspects of making art with children and discusses how children’s art facilitates their being in space. It offers specific ways of understanding how children negotiate space through examining their creative expressions about the spaces in which they spend their everyday lives. Our conceptual framew...

This chapter explores the potential long- and medium-term impacts of arts-based methods for research with children. Building cross-cultural and cross-community understanding through our work, we initiate conversations about ways of living together, the traumas of the past, children’s hopes and aspirations, and the similarities and shared interests...

This article is an investigation of the agency of matter and an exposition of the new materialist methods I have been developing as part of a muti-sited trans-national ethnography that features socially engaged arts practices alongside more traditional ethnographic and qualitative techniques. I think through the agency of matter and consider the te...

“Flying soccer balls that are ice-cream factories inside, cars with wings, mobile recycling plants, streets that are rivers. These are the inventions children have offered up to Hickey-Moody. This is because she deftly uses arts-based methodologies to provide resources for engaging with children and communities to examine social issues such as belo...

Digital community making through a live entanglement of the self and social media, offers up new pathways for thinking through human and nonhuman divides. Queer activism and feminist art on Instagram has made way for a reframing of what constitutes a ‘digital community’ (boyd 2011, Baym 2015, Oakley 2018). This paper thinks through the materiality...

Researching everyday media practices is a messy and tricky business fraught with uncertainty. In this panel the authors ask how stories of failure, especially during fieldwork, can be rethought as a meaningful emergent method and approach. How can we productively reframe failure as a core part of the research process that cannot be subsumed into th...

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who now are not confined to single locations and physical structures. The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a space to worship and t...

Digital media is changing the ways in which religion is practiced, understood, proselytised and countered. Religious institutions and leaders use digital media to engage with their congregations who now are not confined to single locations and physical structures. The faithful are part of online communities which allow them a space to worship and t...

Feminist new materialisms account for the agency of the body and the ways it is entangled with, in and through its environment. Similarly, affect scholars have put words to the bodily feelings and attunements that we can't describe. In this paper, we provide a brief survey of feminist thought that established the scholarly landscape and appetite fo...

Children with disabilities remain in the shadows of disability theory and are also marginalized in childhood studies literature. While children with disabilities are arguably the purview of both fields, discussions of childhood and disability are confined to psychology and children’s literature. This entry offers an overview of dominant, or popular...

This essay advances a new materialist philosophy of faith. Mobilizing affect, I show that a change in the capacity to act, such as that created through belief or non-belief, is an experience that unites both secular and religious people. Belief in the superiority of secular culture over religious culture, or vice versa, are affectively similar corp...

Using a feminist, new materialist frame to activate ethico-political research exploring religion and gender at a community level both on Instagram and in arts workshops, we show how sharing ethnic backgrounds, religious beliefs, gender identities and sexualities through art practice entangles a diffraction of differences as ‘togetherness’. Such ent...

Capitalism is killing us. It is killing us through producing huge amounts of environmental waste in the process of making capitalist commodities, trafficking workers along polluted highways and drilling oil to traffic workers. In this chapter, I will show that often this process of commodity production is gendered as masculine. As a core part of ca...

The field of disability studies has engaged with Deleuze and Guattari’s work in a fashion almost unprecedented by other empirically oriented disciplines, perhaps with the exception of education. In this chapter, I survey work on the sociology of disability, and disability studies more broadly, in which Deleuze, and Deleuze and Guattari’s, work has...

Deleuze’s thought offers new methods for thinking about traditional themes in masculinity studies and it introduces concepts that bring a fresh approach to how I see masculinity and undertake masculinity studies as a discipline.

In this chapter, I provide some resources for thinking about how masculinity is learnt, through examining the ways boyhood is conceived both explicitly and implicitly in Deleuze and Guattari’s work. I then turn to my attention the impact that their thought has had on contemporary studies of masculinity and youth, particularly in relation to work em...

Deleuze’s work offers exiting new methodologies. Indeed, writing on Infinite Eros, Sholtz and Carr go so far as to claim “Deleuze and Guattari offer us a new conception of life - life as the singular relations that we are. Life is constituted, sustained and amplified through connections and encounters, thus it is always constituted through differen...

This paper brings together two different ways of knowing failure, with a view to offering epistemological, methodological and ontological resources for undertaking feminist research. The idea behind ‘two ways of knowing failure’ is to make a point about the kinds of knowledge, data, and methods that are legitimate and valued in the research assembl...

Little Hans and the Pedagogies of Heterosexuality

This collection applies the characterizations of children and childhood made in Deleuze and Guattari's work to concerns that have shaped our idea of the child. Bringing together established and new voices, the authors cover philosophy, literature, religious studies, education, sociology and film studies. These essays question the popular idea that...

This book uses Deleuze’s work to offer methods for understanding cultural pedagogies of gender. It analyses masculinity in terms of what it does, how it operates, and what its affects are. Adopting a pragmatic approach, it shapes chapters around key Deleuzian concepts that have proved generative in Masculinity Studies and subsequently presents case...

This collection works with the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze, and his collaborator Felix Guattari, in the context of education. Deleuze once remarked that we get the philosophy we deserve because of the questions that we ask. Deleuze saw that the work of philosophy was the creation of concepts – those working with his theory are admonished not to fo...

This article is an investigation of the agency of matter and an exposition of the new materialist methods I have been developing as part of a muti-sited trans-national ethnography that features socially engaged arts practices alongside more traditional ethnographic and qualitative techniques. I think through the agency of matter and consider the te...

Written in the spirit of Raymond Williams’s Keywords: A Vocabulary of Culture and Society (1983), this chapter introduces the terms that organise the chapters in this collection: youth, technology, governance, and experience. It focuses primarily on ‘youth’, including the overlapping discourses of age, adolescence, the teenager, and generation that...

Copy and paste link to access article: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/371583/371584 Socially engaged arts practices make new forms of group subjectivity. They are intra-active, diffractive methods through which we can craft new ways of being. Quantum literacies are the modes through which socially engaged arts practices occur: they are at...

How far do adults truly understand youth? How do their conceptions inform interventions into young lives or implicate young people’s experiences? Centrally exploring adults’ ideas about youth, Youth, Technology, Governance, Experience seeks to tackle these questions. Specifically, this timely volume uses the four central concepts of youth, technol...

This essay examines a contemporary arts project that was designed to increase understanding of different beliefs between children from a range of faith backgrounds and articulate everyday social and cultural values through practices of making. It extends scholarship on socially engaged practice by demonstrating how creative learning, undertaken thr...

This paper examines the research design for an arts-based interfaith research project that is intended to build relationships between children from different faiths and to increase research participants’ understandings of faiths other than their own. The project is funded as an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship called Early Start Arts t...

There has been a recent expansion of interest in cultural approaches to rural communities and to the economic and social situation of rurality more broadly. This interest has been particularly prominent in Australia in recent years, spurring the emergence of an interdisciplinary field called 'rural cultural studies'. This collection is framed by a...

A reflection on feminist movements and recent feminist risings

In this article I examine the possibilities for integrated dance in schools, as a way of opening up how practices of schooling understand dance education and inclusive education. 'Integrated dance' is dance made by people with and without disabilities. I examine integrated dance as a movement based practice and show how dance theatre devised and pe...

Taking laughing at rather than laughing with as the primary site of analysis, this chapter focuses on structures of homosocial identification that facilitate intimacies between men to the detriment of women. The forms of masculinity that become sites of shaming through ridicule are largely non-dominant performances of masculinity. By this we mean t...

Young people with tenuous relationships to schooling and education are an enduring challenge when it comes to addressing social inclusion, yet their experiences remain overlooked in efforts to widen participation in higher education. The Politics of Widening Participation and University Access for Young People examines the existing knowledges and f...

In this article, the phrase ‘being different in public’ is used to think about people with disabilities in public culture. I argue for the cultural value of disability in an era of austerity arguably marked by an ableism that pushes people to ‘pass’ as not disabled. Such a lack of cultural value is remedied through the work of Disability Arts organ...

Series: Routledge Research in Higher Education Poor university attendance by low socioeconomic status (LSES) students is an issue faced by numerous countries worldwide. Socioeconomic status has been shown to be one of the strongest predictors of educational outcomes, with those from HSES backgrounds three times more likely to attend university than...

A description of the work of emerging Iraqi Australian artists. The works discussed examine trauma, journeys, transitions, politics, religion and gender.

We theorise an interdisciplinary arts practice university course and consider the forms of educational imaginary challenged by our curriculum. We argue for the disruptive and generative potential of what we call diffractive pedagogy as an example of the type of learning that can take place when materiality and entanglement are considered as vital c...

This chapter revisits my concept of ‘affective pedagogy’ (Hickey-Moody, 2009, 2012) as a posthuman model of art education. In so doing, I mobilize the manifesto/manifesta/femifesta as a genre of feminist scholarship (Colman, 2008, 2014; Haraway, 1991; Lusty, 2008; Palmer, 2015). The manifesta, or femifesta (Palmer, 2015), has provided a model for a...

In the most acute moments during fits of laughter when the body convulses and the breath quickens, when each comical thought fumbles toward the next, and when the whole world shrinks around a single word, image, or gesture—in these moments our laughter can come to feel absolutely our own. No social pressure can force this feeling into being. We can...

This paper contributes to a growing body of literature on widening university participation and brings a focus on the classed and embodied nature of young people’s imagination to existing discussions. We interviewed 250 young people living in disadvantaged communities across five Australian states who had experienced disengagement from compulsory p...

Geophilosophy is a placeholder for things we cannot yet do, things we hope to do, and things that we have failed to do so far. This issue of Angelaki aspires towards ways of doing philosophy, geography and gender studies that stray from the analytical comforts of philosophical reasoning, and from the sociological certainties that dominate the study...