K Gale
Biographic Data
| ID | 48582 |
|---|---|
| NAME | K Gale |
| GIVEN NAMES | K |
| FAMILY NAME | Gale |
| SIGNATURE | GALE K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Plymouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1296-9647 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 108 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Manus in Mano: Entanglements of Eco-Collectivism
Through the “affective presencing” ( Gale, 2023 ) of collaborative practices that “spirit” new experiencing, this paper forces into emergence the sympoiesis of eco materialities that challenge the constraining intentions of ego centric formations of neurotypicality and neoliberal institutionalisation. Using Spry’s creative and collaborative elision of the “natureculture body” the paper generates movements aligned with radical, botanical kin makin…
Between-ing: Collaborative Writing and the Unfoldings of Relational Space
In conversation with Claire Parnet, Deleuze is quoted as saying, “(w)e were only two, but what was important for us was less our working together than this strange fact of working between the two of us.” Deleuze’s concept of “between-the-two” has been used by “Gale and Wyatt,” as a leitmotif for the collaborative writing with which they have engaged “between the two” and also in collaboration with others. The persistence and longevity of this usa…
Tami Spry: The Force of (Co-)Performing
In this short article, we work with the notion of Tami Spry as force. There is a tension here: We have come to recognize, both through the writing of this article and through our many years of encountering both Tami herself and Tami's work as performer and writer, how we find ourselves needing to de-personalize and de-individualize: we are drawn into the beyond, the uncontainable, the 'more-than,' of Tami and Tami's work. At the same time as this…
Writing Through and Writing Against: Materials of Resistance
This article concerns how writing, collaborative writing in particular, acts: how it moves, how it resists, how it does, the four humans writing alongside our co-authoring ‘materials’ – a guitar, for instance – and other more-than-human co-authors, such as affect, friendship, time. We explore writing against systems of oppression and writing through materials of resistance. Writing through can ignite the seething potentiality of a breaking throug…
Making Trouble With Ontogenesis: Collaborative Writing, Becoming, and Concept Forming as Event
Through the authors’ continuing creative encounters with practices of collaborative writing, this article offers a troubling of approaches to ontology that inform a construction of simply human selves and a constitution of Being. The article seeks instead to foster processual movements toward always becoming and the creative-relational practices of concept forming as event. In their speculative experimentations with the concept of “ontogenesis,” …
Something Happened in the Room: Conceptualizing Intersubjectivation
A panel convened around the idea of intersubjectivation, loosely conceived as a process of actively, consciously, and reciprocally adjusting the structures and power dynamics of our social relations, thereby mutually (and consensually) reconfiguring our subjectivities and, over time, our wider cultures. Through a series of explorations of how one may elicit, reach, or realize a shared sense of intersubjectivity, the panel reflected on and challen…
Writing With: Collaborative Writing as Hope and Resistance
Collaboration in scholarship holds the peculiar position of being expected, encouraged, and, in the process, somewhat taken-for-granted as monolithic academic practice. Collaboration is important for the cultivation of a rich ecosystem of ideas, thoughts, methods, theories, and experimentation. It seems safe to assume that most scholars would agree with the need and the possibilities of collaboration. Yet, collaboration in scholarship is often un…
Writing in Immanence
The writing in this essay confronts and is troubled by writing. In the ensuing encounters with writing selves and writing as doing as “creative-relationally more-than [simply] human”1 practice, a sense of writing as immanent and in immanence is emergent in the always becoming of the essay as event. In the capaciousness of this practice, onto-methodo-genetic approaches are used to set up dis-allowances of the stable and tendentious fixities of ont…
The Anthropocene, Affect, and Autoethnography
Freedom is not simply something that can be stood outside of and decided upon in terms of freedom to or freedom from. Freedom is fluid, dynamic, and ecological, existing where, in the volatility and unpredictability of the act, difference can be made. In the practice of experience making that Stewart1 refers to as “worlding,” there exists the processually differentiating capacity to bring to life encounters and events in which the energy of the f…
Deleuze and Collaborative Writing in the Dance of Activism
Drawing upon and infused by the ‘micropolitical’ moves of Deleuze and Guattari, this article arose out of a participative workshop at the 2018 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that took up Braidotti's proposition to explore how collaborative writing ‘like breathing, [is] not held into the mould of linearity, or the confines of the printed page, but move[s] outwards, out of bounds, in webs of encounters with ideas, others, texts’ (Bra…
Worlding with Objects
Donna Haraway has recently stressed the importance of “making kin.” She says: “Who and whatever we are, we need to make-with, become-with, compose-with—the earth-bound.”1 I sense that “making kin” is an integral animating force in what Jeffrey Cohen refers to as engendering a “lithic ecomateriality” where “mutuality” and narratives of “companionship and concurrency” are always possible and, I would argue, increasingly necessary and deeply desirab…
Autoethnography and Activism: Movement, Intensity, and Potential
In this short article, we pay attention to what an autoethnography might do. In relationality, we understand autoethnographic practices as assembling and dissembling bodies that are active in always territorializing space and in world making. They have the capacity to affect and be affected and, therefore, as performing and performative practices, they act and are acted upon. With Madison, we see these acts as activist, and we, therefore, see aut…
Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere
We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’ (e.g., Gale & Wyatt, 2009). We have, over the years, sensed they/we were part of the multiplicity of an incessant becoming, becoming something other than what we/they were. In this we sense the emergence of powers to affect and be affected in our collaborative writing practices and to begin to animate a response to Spinoza’s fundamen…
Not all who Wander are Lost and all who Wonder are Found
This paper is designed to problematise and enhance through this doing the effectiveness of autoethnography as a method of inquiry. Autoethnographic research generally finds a home within the postpositivist proclivities and phenomenological inquiry-based practices of the humanities and the social sciences. By attempting to engage a decentring of the human in (autoethnographic) research practice, this paper suggests the need for a turning toward af…
Writing to it: Creative Engagements With Writing Practice in and With the Not Yet Known in Today’s Academy
We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’. Increasingly, we came to understand that the only way to continue in our process was to ‘write to it’; whatever the question, the query or the problem, it was this inducement – ‘write to it’ – that led to new experimentations and the indeterminate rhythms and refrains of the multiple that were often present in the agonistics of our …
Working at the Wonder: Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
This article offers a discussion concerning the future of collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. Taking the form of a dialogic exchange, we take up Isabelle Stengers' notion of "wonder" as a creative and political lens through which to consider the disruptive, radical, and productive methodological capacity that collaborative writing as a research method potentially offers. Working particularly with Deleuze and Guattari, we argue that lang…
Ordinary? Affects? Swimming with Kathleen Stewart and Others against the Tide Race of Representation and the Heresies of Names
This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in th…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
Moods, Tones, Flavors: Living With Intensities as Inquiry
This article relishes indistinctness; it revels in hidden spaces and in voices crying to be heard. It draws attention to what is not realized and, in the realizing, celebrates the moving on into the not yet known and the politics of movement. Using a Deleuzian "logic of sense" and sensing immersion in Bachelard's "poetics of space" the article plays with opacity, fragility, and imperceptibility as mistiness, flavor, perfume, tone, and mood popula…
Intensity: A Collaborative Autoethnography
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing—and living—from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through …
Riffing off Laurel Richardson: Taking Three Words to Twitter
Taking Laurel Richardson's concept of a ‘take three words’ workshop onto the social media site Twitter with its discipline of quick 140 character answers to the question ‘What are you doing now?’ proved to be a surprisingly intimate insight into the everyday sociology of the lives of 12 writers living in 21st century Britain
Inquiring into Red/Red Inquiring
This layered account of an inquiry into ‘red’ emerged out of a collective biography workshop. In the middle of the Wiltshire countryside, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars gathered together to write and make other things and marks on paper that asked questions of, and into, the spaces between words, people, things and their environments. We did not set out to workshop or write into or paint ‘red’ but, rather, it was red tha…
Action research and the assemblage: Engaging Deleuzian pedagogy and inquiry beyond the constraints of the individual and the group in education settings
Drawing upon the author’s previous attempts to engage the work of Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari with contemporary pedagogic practices and research, this paper offers a conceptually tentative reworking of the theory and practice of action research, both as a means of challenging antecedent positions and as a way of proposing a volatile and incisive approach that, it will be argued, can help in generating a more plural, reflexive and methodologi…
Back to Futures: Diffractions and Becomings of Collaborative Writing
In making a contribution to this collection of writings, and in writing to and with them, this paper is not conceived, designed or presented as summative, conclusive or as a synthetical representation of the other writings in this edition. This paper appears at the end of the collection simply and only because of the proclivities and necessities of the linearity and organisational requirements of journal production. It is written and presented wi…
Singularities and Multiplicities: A Preface to the Special Issue on Collaborative Writing
Working at the Wonder: Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
This article offers a discussion concerning the future of collaborative writing as a method of inquiry. Taking the form of a dialogic exchange, we take up Isabelle Stengers' notion of "wonder" as a creative and political lens through which to consider the disruptive, radical, and productive methodological capacity that collaborative writing as a research method potentially offers. Working particularly with Deleuze and Guattari, we argue that lang…
Autoethnography and Activism: Movement, Intensity, and Potential
In this short article, we pay attention to what an autoethnography might do. In relationality, we understand autoethnographic practices as assembling and dissembling bodies that are active in always territorializing space and in world making. They have the capacity to affect and be affected and, therefore, as performing and performative practices, they act and are acted upon. With Madison, we see these acts as activist, and we, therefore, see aut…
Deleuzian Thought and Collaborative Writing: A Play in Four Acts
This article involves four writers exploring together the insights into collaborative writing that Deleuze can offer. Jonathan and Ken in the United Kingdom and Bronwyn and Sue in Australia have separate histories of collaborative writing, and in this collaborative project, they extend their thinking about Deleuze and work reflexively with his concepts to examine their own four-way collaboration. The thoughts of Deleuze provide a means of looking…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
Writing to it: Creative Engagements With Writing Practice in and With the Not Yet Known in Today’s Academy
We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’. Increasingly, we came to understand that the only way to continue in our process was to ‘write to it’; whatever the question, the query or the problem, it was this inducement – ‘write to it’ – that led to new experimentations and the indeterminate rhythms and refrains of the multiple that were often present in the agonistics of our …
Inquiring Into Writing: An Interactive Interview
This article is a transcript of an interview that the authors conducted via e-mail during a 3-month period in early 2005. The interview explores their experience of writing and came to life because the authors had been struck, in exchanging work with each other during their doctoral studies, by significant differences in their writing styles. The focus of the interview became the actual process of writing and its meanings to the authors, how writ…
Moods, Tones, Flavors: Living With Intensities as Inquiry
This article relishes indistinctness; it revels in hidden spaces and in voices crying to be heard. It draws attention to what is not realized and, in the realizing, celebrates the moving on into the not yet known and the politics of movement. Using a Deleuzian "logic of sense" and sensing immersion in Bachelard's "poetics of space" the article plays with opacity, fragility, and imperceptibility as mistiness, flavor, perfume, tone, and mood popula…
Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play
This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play…
Action research and the assemblage: Engaging Deleuzian pedagogy and inquiry beyond the constraints of the individual and the group in education settings
Drawing upon the author’s previous attempts to engage the work of Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari with contemporary pedagogic practices and research, this paper offers a conceptually tentative reworking of the theory and practice of action research, both as a means of challenging antecedent positions and as a way of proposing a volatile and incisive approach that, it will be argued, can help in generating a more plural, reflexive and methodologi…
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Becoming Father, Becoming Son in the Fluid Play of Memory, Affect, and Intuition
The recognition of his deceased father in an old war-time picture sets in play for the writer the undoing of the self through the temporal and fluid reterritorialization of the space historically delineated, identified, and owned by the collective signifier "father and son." Aware of living in and contributing to the crisis of representation and instigated by the event of revelation, the writing attempts to show how this signifier is placed under…
Interpreting the Maths Syllabus for Aboriginal Schools
The Western Australian Maths Syllabus with Notes is the recommended Maths curriculum for all Northern Territory schools. However, for teachers in tribal Aboriginal communities it is obvious that the gulf between this syllabus and the education setting is enormous. It is therefore essential that teachers try to bridge this gulf. The answer does not lie in the syllabus itself, but in the insights a teacher has about the culture and systems of knowl…
Triadic Assessment
This article describes the findings of, and the conclusions drawn from, a research project sponsored by the University of Plymouth Student Centred Learning Initiative (SCLI) with the intention of gaining an indepth view of self, peer and tutor (triadic) assessment. The research employed an essentially qualitative methodology incorporating the use of questionnaire and semi-structured interview techniques. The research cohort was drawn from groups …
Inquiring Into Writing: An Interactive Interview
This article is a transcript of an interview that the authors conducted via e-mail during a 3-month period in early 2005. The interview explores their experience of writing and came to life because the authors had been struck, in exchanging work with each other during their doctoral studies, by significant differences in their writing styles. The focus of the interview became the actual process of writing and its meanings to the authors, how writ…
A Conversation With Labov
Two Men Talking: A Nomadic Inquiry into Collaborative Writing
This paper follows the authors' collective biographical inquiry into “becoming men” (Gale and Wyatt, 2008), and pursues questions about “men-ness” in their writing relationship. Drawing primarily from Deleuze, both his philosophical concepts — lines of flight, nomadic inquiry, the rhizome, and more — and his insights into his collaborations with others, the authors work together on collaborative research ventures, mostly in an ebb and flow of wri…
Becoming Men, Becoming-Men: A Collective Biography
In their collaborations over recent years the authors have worked, through their written dialogue, in pursuit of understanding subjectivities and their ‘becomings’. Until now they have not explicitly explored their subjectivities as men. Their starting point in this paper is that they do not take the assignation ‘men’ for granted. Using collective biography, they are interested in how the worlds that they inhabited and that inhabited them in thei…
Deleuzian Thought and Collaborative Writing: A Play in Four Acts
This article involves four writers exploring together the insights into collaborative writing that Deleuze can offer. Jonathan and Ken in the United Kingdom and Bronwyn and Sue in Australia have separate histories of collaborative writing, and in this collaborative project, they extend their thinking about Deleuze and work reflexively with his concepts to examine their own four-way collaboration. The thoughts of Deleuze provide a means of looking…
Gatecrashing the Oasis? A Joint Doctoral Dissertation Play
This article explores the institutional and individual struggles surrounding the submission for examination of a jointly authored doctoral dissertation at a U.K. civic university. Two of the article's authors (Gale and Wyatt) were the dissertation's authors, and Speedy, the article's third author, is their supervisor. Joint doctoral dissertations are rare and the dissertation was unique in this department's history. The article is written as play…
Flows, Tides, and Transatlantic Drifts: An Emergent Methodology of Collaborative Performative Writing
In this paper, using the imagery of the ever shifting movement of the sea, two friends attempt to demonstrate how the concepts, affects and percepts of Deleuzian inquiry can fuse and connect with the embodied method of poetic, performative writing to engage in and produce a collaborative inquiry into their intuitive, creative and ethically sensitive struggles as friends, parents and teachers
The Textor, the Nomads, and a Labyrinth: A Response to Graham Badley
This paper is a response to Graham Badley’s welcome article in this volume, Two Nomads Writing , in which he takes issue with Gale and Wyatt’s 2009 book, Between the Two: A Nomadic Inquiry into Collaborative Writing and Subjectivity . In this paper, the authors address the two key points he raises, the first of which concerns the value or otherwise of the book’s contribution and the second the authors’ use of postmodern `jargon’. Wyatt and Gale a…
How Writing Touches: An Intimate Scholarly Collaboration
Five scholars, with varying histories together, met as writers at a workshop at the 2007 International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry and made a commitment to write over the following year to, for and with each other in an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, an experiment that led us to explore questions of intimacy and connection manifested through collaborative writing. Each year since then we have returned to Congress to read a small …
Back to Futures: Diffractions and Becomings of Collaborative Writing
In making a contribution to this collection of writings, and in writing to and with them, this paper is not conceived, designed or presented as summative, conclusive or as a synthetical representation of the other writings in this edition. This paper appears at the end of the collection simply and only because of the proclivities and necessities of the linearity and organisational requirements of journal production. It is written and presented wi…
Singularities and Multiplicities: A Preface to the Special Issue on Collaborative Writing
Encountering Deleuze: Collaborative Writing and the Politics of Stuttering in Emergent Language
The seven of us have never met; at least, our material bodies have not shared the same geographical space. We are a becoming-assemblage, drawn to write together through encountering Deleuze and others in collaborative writing workshops in the UK and the United States in 2010 and 2011. This paper explores, expresses and creates, through the trajectories and surprises of zigzagging nomadic inquiry, our continuing engagement with Deleuze and his col…
Darkness and Silence: The Dis/connection of Writing Intimacy
Having written as a group for four years, we continue with an emblematic methodology of writing into the dark, writing into a space that has become an intensive, maturing, messy, ethically caring, collaborative venture of changing composition. Our collective self writes into a tentative anticipating trust in our presence though we are shaded in uncertainty. We have written with desire and labor, intimacy and work, stuttering and stumbling our way…
Knowing Me, Knowing You: Becoming Father, Becoming Son in the Fluid Play of Memory, Affect, and Intuition
The recognition of his deceased father in an old war-time picture sets in play for the writer the undoing of the self through the temporal and fluid reterritorialization of the space historically delineated, identified, and owned by the collective signifier "father and son." Aware of living in and contributing to the crisis of representation and instigated by the event of revelation, the writing attempts to show how this signifier is placed under…
Intensity: A Collaborative Autoethnography
In this collaborative autoethnography, the five of us explore the experience and ethics of writing—and living—from/in intensity. We have been writing together since meeting at the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI), when we made a commitment to write over the following year to, for, and with each other. It became an experiment in the craft of autoethnography, exploring questions of intimacy and connection manifested through …
Riffing off Laurel Richardson: Taking Three Words to Twitter
Taking Laurel Richardson's concept of a ‘take three words’ workshop onto the social media site Twitter with its discipline of quick 140 character answers to the question ‘What are you doing now?’ proved to be a surprisingly intimate insight into the everyday sociology of the lives of 12 writers living in 21st century Britain
Inquiring into Red/Red Inquiring
This layered account of an inquiry into ‘red’ emerged out of a collective biography workshop. In the middle of the Wiltshire countryside, an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars gathered together to write and make other things and marks on paper that asked questions of, and into, the spaces between words, people, things and their environments. We did not set out to workshop or write into or paint ‘red’ but, rather, it was red tha…
Action research and the assemblage: Engaging Deleuzian pedagogy and inquiry beyond the constraints of the individual and the group in education settings
Drawing upon the author’s previous attempts to engage the work of Deleuze and Deleuze and Guattari with contemporary pedagogic practices and research, this paper offers a conceptually tentative reworking of the theory and practice of action research, both as a means of challenging antecedent positions and as a way of proposing a volatile and incisive approach that, it will be argued, can help in generating a more plural, reflexive and methodologi…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Collaborative Writing as Method of Inquiry
Moods, Tones, Flavors: Living With Intensities as Inquiry
This article relishes indistinctness; it revels in hidden spaces and in voices crying to be heard. It draws attention to what is not realized and, in the realizing, celebrates the moving on into the not yet known and the politics of movement. Using a Deleuzian "logic of sense" and sensing immersion in Bachelard's "poetics of space" the article plays with opacity, fragility, and imperceptibility as mistiness, flavor, perfume, tone, and mood popula…
Ordinary? Affects? Swimming with Kathleen Stewart and Others against the Tide Race of Representation and the Heresies of Names
This essay describes instances in the rhythmic play with affect in the reading of and performances with Kathleen Stewart's Ordinary Affects. It offers an engagement with the work that both troubles and is troubled. It celebrates this engagement and delights in the opportunity to read, read around, and read again and again words that flee from identification and representation and come to life in moments of tears, smiles, and writings living in th…
Not all who Wander are Lost and all who Wonder are Found
This paper is designed to problematise and enhance through this doing the effectiveness of autoethnography as a method of inquiry. Autoethnographic research generally finds a home within the postpositivist proclivities and phenomenological inquiry-based practices of the humanities and the social sciences. By attempting to engage a decentring of the human in (autoethnographic) research practice, this paper suggests the need for a turning toward af…
Writing to it: Creative Engagements With Writing Practice in and With the Not Yet Known in Today’s Academy
We have developed an approach to collaborative-writing-as-inquiry that we sometimes refer to as ‘between the twos’. Increasingly, we came to understand that the only way to continue in our process was to ‘write to it’; whatever the question, the query or the problem, it was this inducement – ‘write to it’ – that led to new experimentations and the indeterminate rhythms and refrains of the multiple that were often present in the agonistics of our …
Sociology (33 works) · Philosophy (22 works) · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism (21 works) · Aesthetics (19 works) · Epistemology (19 works) · Art (17 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Linguistics (12 works) · Pedagogy (12 works)