N Fairchild
Biographic Data
| ID | 56794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Fairchild |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Fairchild |
| SIGNATURE | FAIRCHILD N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Portsmouth |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8640-2710 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Al/luring Possibilities
This article works with the theory-methodology-praxis of lure and allure to muse on, speculate and reimagine possibilities for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise (AWO). We discuss our use of creative academic writing to materialise what happens when we embody the allure of the lure in our writing, and how we summon playfully creative academic writings into new becomings. AWO is a creative mode of theory-praxis which affords…
Image-Text-Riffs
Focusing on walking-encounter-ings for thinking-doing-imagining qualitative research otherwise, and composed as a series of intermezzo image-text-riffs, this article enacts artful inquiry as a mode of radical empiricism. It considers what walking-encounter-ings enable as sensorial-embodied-affective inquiry; how they prompt curious and creative experimentation; and how they may release speculative possibilities to imagine alternative nows and bet…
Academic Writing Otherwise
This article opens a space of possibility for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise. Based on a series of activity-activations we explore what academic writing might become when loosed from conventional prescriptions to explain, exemplify, demonstrate, justify, argue, and account for. What happens if we decide to write otherwise? How can we enable writing’s perturbations to proliferate? How can writing otherwise be a mode of p…
Forming a professional identity
This paper investigates graduates’ perceptions of quality provision in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Drawing on qualitative data from former and final-year Early Childhood Studies (ECS) students across three English higher education institutions, the study explores how higher education and placement shape graduates’ approaches to and perceptions of quality when working with children from birth to five years of age. Freire's approach …
Pedagogies of mattering
This article engages posthuman theory to propose a rethinking of the theory and practice of relational pedagogies within higher education (HE). There has been renewed emphasis within HE discourses on the significance of relationships within learning and teaching as a means to offer a counter-view to an uncaring marketised HE system. This article argues the need to build on and extend the current framing of relational pedagogies. It argues for an …
Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s)
Critical feminist materialist theorizing opens up possibilities for enacting different ways of knowledge making. In this article, I connect feminist materialist inquiry with time and temporality to develop a line of inquiry to reimagine the nature of multiple future(s). Employing theorizing developed by Francesca Ferrando, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, and thinking with the concepts of Multiverse, spacetimemattering, and agential cuts, I develo…
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care
Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality. This empirical paper employs a research‐creation methodology in combination with feminist materialist theory, notably Ha…
CPI Special Issue
Introduction to Part 2 of the Special Issue, Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity (Volume 14, No. 2) of Cultural and Pedigogical Inquiry by Guest Editors Carol Lee, Kay Sidebottom and Nikki Fairchild. Included in the Introduction is an overview of contributions to this issue and how each contributor addresses education in the material world, in relationships, and in the entanglement of matter and the incorporeal
Family stories
This article presents our Family Stories model identifying self-reported change behaviours and environments by families developed from our two-phase research in an inner-city area in the south of England. The research focused on parents whose families had experienced complex issues affecting the behaviour, wellbeing, learning and/or safety of children, and who had received social care support from services that had broadly adopted a trauma-inform…
Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies
We write as a collaborative mode of embodied writing that moves, tags, and re-sites us elsewhere, that mis/dis/aligns self-other, and permeates various stable body(boundaries). We write as a group of (un)bounded (virtual) bodies who aim to collectively create and tag arguments. We write as a collective body where materialities, ideas, discussions and writing become in the doing. Different relational collective practices shared here disturb, dispe…
CPI Special Issue
Introduction to the Summer 2022 (Volume 14, No. 1) Special Isssue of Cultural and Pedigogical Inquiry with the guest editors Nikki Fairchild, Carol Lee and Kay Sidebottom. This is Part I of a double special issue that is grounded in the tenets, perspectives and the assumptions of posthumanism
Post Humanism
Revised Call for Submissions for the two part Special Issue entitled "Post Humanism: A Desire for a New Humanity" with Part I to be published in Summer 2022 (Volume 14, No. 1) and Part II in Winter 2023 (Volume 14, No. 2)
Higher Education Hauntologies
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (2021) (Routledge), Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas Siddique Motala & Dorothee Hölscher
Monstrous Ontologies
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry
For centuries the autopsy has been a key technology in Western culture for generating clinical/medical as well as cultural knowledge about bodies. This article hails the anato-medical autopsy as a generative trope and apparatus in reconfiguring Western humanist knowledge of bodies and bodies of knowledge and takes up the possibilities of working with the concept of autopsy in disrupting qualitative research methodology. In doing so, the article o…
Posthumanism
Call for Submissions for the Summer, 2022 issue of Cultural and Pedagogical Enquiry for the Special Issue: Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity with Guest Editors Kay Sidebottom, Carol Lee, and Nikki Fairchild
Higher Education Hauntologies
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (2021) (Routledge), Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas Siddique Motala & Dorothee Hölscher. Review by Carol A. Taylor, University of Bath, UK, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0914-8461 & Nikki Fairchild, University of Portsmouth, UK, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-2710
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
Queering the Data
Education has increasingly been consumed by neoliberal expectations that result in the need for data to be collected to justify regulative, pedagogical, curricular, and teaching practices. The marketisation of higher education requires more quantitative measurement of student attainment and progress which impacts on pedagogy and provision. Working with Karen Barad's theorisations of spacetimemattering, agential cuts, intra-action, and diffractive…
Towards a posthumanist institutional ethnography
This article makes the case for Posthumanist Institutional Ethnography (PIE). In doing so, it builds on and diverges from Dorothy E. Smith’s post-structural work on Institutional Ethnography (IE), and speaks into recent discussions on the contested nature of ethnography. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad and Jane Bennet, and on empirical data from two recent projects, the article argues that PIE, in contesting human exceptionalism…
Conferencing Otherwise
This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of 'the academic conference' and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This 'what if' and 'what else' thinking has manifested in ex…
Feeling Medusa
This article explores a series of tentacular troublings inspired by Donna Haraway's (2016) concept of String Figuring (SF). We consider these troublings as relational entanglements which produce perturbations of our gender, positioning, recognition, and respectability as feminist academics in Higher Education. We activate tentacular troublings as a refrain for contemplating differences/ings in our academic lives and as a critique of contemporary …
Improvising Bags Choreographies
Postqualitative research-creation improvisations offer new possibilities to explore method/ology. In this article, we question how bags, as seemingly mundane objects, work as ontologically lively matter-as active agencies-to choreograph human-nonhuman relations and heterogeneous materialities. Working from three questions-How might a bag become? What do bags do? What do bags enable and enact?-we discuss four research-creation improvisations and t…
Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine
Author 1: They say they want to disturb the AcademicConferenceMachine. Author 34: What is an AcademicConferenceMachine? Author 2: Please do not go in that direction. Ask, for example, what does an AcademicConferenceMachine do? Author 51: Ok, so what does it do? Author 6: AcademicConferenceMachines are becoming so regulated and standardized that they might lose the possibility to produce different knowledge and to produce knowledge differently. Au…
Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine
Author 1: They say they want to disturb the AcademicConferenceMachine. Author 34: What is an AcademicConferenceMachine? Author 2: Please do not go in that direction. Ask, for example, what does an AcademicConferenceMachine do? Author 51: Ok, so what does it do? Author 6: AcademicConferenceMachines are becoming so regulated and standardized that they might lose the possibility to produce different knowledge and to produce knowledge differently. Au…
Conferencing Otherwise
This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of 'the academic conference' and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This 'what if' and 'what else' thinking has manifested in ex…
Towards a posthumanist institutional ethnography
This article makes the case for Posthumanist Institutional Ethnography (PIE). In doing so, it builds on and diverges from Dorothy E. Smith’s post-structural work on Institutional Ethnography (IE), and speaks into recent discussions on the contested nature of ethnography. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad and Jane Bennet, and on empirical data from two recent projects, the article argues that PIE, in contesting human exceptionalism…
Improvising Bags Choreographies
Postqualitative research-creation improvisations offer new possibilities to explore method/ology. In this article, we question how bags, as seemingly mundane objects, work as ontologically lively matter-as active agencies-to choreograph human-nonhuman relations and heterogeneous materialities. Working from three questions-How might a bag become? What do bags do? What do bags enable and enact?-we discuss four research-creation improvisations and t…
Monstrous Ontologies
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
Feeling Medusa
This article explores a series of tentacular troublings inspired by Donna Haraway's (2016) concept of String Figuring (SF). We consider these troublings as relational entanglements which produce perturbations of our gender, positioning, recognition, and respectability as feminist academics in Higher Education. We activate tentacular troublings as a refrain for contemplating differences/ings in our academic lives and as a critique of contemporary …
Higher Education Hauntologies
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (2021) (Routledge), Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas Siddique Motala & Dorothee Hölscher
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry
For centuries the autopsy has been a key technology in Western culture for generating clinical/medical as well as cultural knowledge about bodies. This article hails the anato-medical autopsy as a generative trope and apparatus in reconfiguring Western humanist knowledge of bodies and bodies of knowledge and takes up the possibilities of working with the concept of autopsy in disrupting qualitative research methodology. In doing so, the article o…
Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies
We write as a collaborative mode of embodied writing that moves, tags, and re-sites us elsewhere, that mis/dis/aligns self-other, and permeates various stable body(boundaries). We write as a group of (un)bounded (virtual) bodies who aim to collectively create and tag arguments. We write as a collective body where materialities, ideas, discussions and writing become in the doing. Different relational collective practices shared here disturb, dispe…
Queering the Data
Education has increasingly been consumed by neoliberal expectations that result in the need for data to be collected to justify regulative, pedagogical, curricular, and teaching practices. The marketisation of higher education requires more quantitative measurement of student attainment and progress which impacts on pedagogy and provision. Working with Karen Barad's theorisations of spacetimemattering, agential cuts, intra-action, and diffractive…
Disturbing the AcademicConferenceMachine
Author 1: They say they want to disturb the AcademicConferenceMachine. Author 34: What is an AcademicConferenceMachine? Author 2: Please do not go in that direction. Ask, for example, what does an AcademicConferenceMachine do? Author 51: Ok, so what does it do? Author 6: AcademicConferenceMachines are becoming so regulated and standardized that they might lose the possibility to produce different knowledge and to produce knowledge differently. Au…
Feeling Medusa
This article explores a series of tentacular troublings inspired by Donna Haraway's (2016) concept of String Figuring (SF). We consider these troublings as relational entanglements which produce perturbations of our gender, positioning, recognition, and respectability as feminist academics in Higher Education. We activate tentacular troublings as a refrain for contemplating differences/ings in our academic lives and as a critique of contemporary …
Improvising Bags Choreographies
Postqualitative research-creation improvisations offer new possibilities to explore method/ology. In this article, we question how bags, as seemingly mundane objects, work as ontologically lively matter-as active agencies-to choreograph human-nonhuman relations and heterogeneous materialities. Working from three questions-How might a bag become? What do bags do? What do bags enable and enact?-we discuss four research-creation improvisations and t…
Queering the Data
Education has increasingly been consumed by neoliberal expectations that result in the need for data to be collected to justify regulative, pedagogical, curricular, and teaching practices. The marketisation of higher education requires more quantitative measurement of student attainment and progress which impacts on pedagogy and provision. Working with Karen Barad's theorisations of spacetimemattering, agential cuts, intra-action, and diffractive…
Towards a posthumanist institutional ethnography
This article makes the case for Posthumanist Institutional Ethnography (PIE). In doing so, it builds on and diverges from Dorothy E. Smith’s post-structural work on Institutional Ethnography (IE), and speaks into recent discussions on the contested nature of ethnography. Drawing on the work of Donna Haraway, Karen Barad and Jane Bennet, and on empirical data from two recent projects, the article argues that PIE, in contesting human exceptionalism…
Conferencing Otherwise
This article attempts to reconfigure hegemonic framings of 'the academic conference' and thereby offer a means to (re-)encounter the spatial, temporal, and affective forces that conferences generate, differently. We are a geographically dispersed but multiply entangled group of academic researchers united by theoretical fault lines within our work that seek to ask what if and what else. This 'what if' and 'what else' thinking has manifested in ex…
Posthumanism
Call for Submissions for the Summer, 2022 issue of Cultural and Pedagogical Enquiry for the Special Issue: Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity with Guest Editors Kay Sidebottom, Carol Lee, and Nikki Fairchild
Higher Education Hauntologies
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (2021) (Routledge), Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas Siddique Motala & Dorothee Hölscher. Review by Carol A. Taylor, University of Bath, UK, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0914-8461 & Nikki Fairchild, University of Portsmouth, UK, https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8640-2710
Emotional labor, ordinary affects, and the early childhood education and care worker
This paper discusses society's lack of recognition of the Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) workforce as professionals, and its emotional impact that this deficit has on them. The concerns are that the role of the ECEC worker has been mainly conceptualized as maternal, where emotional labor is taken for granted and needs to be suppressed or harnessed as part of the caring role. This is at odds with successive government policy agenda whic…
CPI Special Issue
Introduction to the Summer 2022 (Volume 14, No. 1) Special Isssue of Cultural and Pedigogical Inquiry with the guest editors Nikki Fairchild, Carol Lee and Kay Sidebottom. This is Part I of a double special issue that is grounded in the tenets, perspectives and the assumptions of posthumanism
Post Humanism
Revised Call for Submissions for the two part Special Issue entitled "Post Humanism: A Desire for a New Humanity" with Part I to be published in Summer 2022 (Volume 14, No. 1) and Part II in Winter 2023 (Volume 14, No. 2)
Higher Education Hauntologies
Higher Education Hauntologies: Living with Ghosts for a Justice-to-Come (2021) (Routledge), Edited by Vivienne Bozalek, Michalinos Zembylas Siddique Motala & Dorothee Hölscher
Monstrous Ontologies
Autopsy as a site and mode of inquiry
For centuries the autopsy has been a key technology in Western culture for generating clinical/medical as well as cultural knowledge about bodies. This article hails the anato-medical autopsy as a generative trope and apparatus in reconfiguring Western humanist knowledge of bodies and bodies of knowledge and takes up the possibilities of working with the concept of autopsy in disrupting qualitative research methodology. In doing so, the article o…
CPI Special Issue
Introduction to Part 2 of the Special Issue, Posthumanism: A Desire for a New Humanity (Volume 14, No. 2) of Cultural and Pedigogical Inquiry by Guest Editors Carol Lee, Kay Sidebottom and Nikki Fairchild. Included in the Introduction is an overview of contributions to this issue and how each contributor addresses education in the material world, in relationships, and in the entanglement of matter and the incorporeal
Family stories
This article presents our Family Stories model identifying self-reported change behaviours and environments by families developed from our two-phase research in an inner-city area in the south of England. The research focused on parents whose families had experienced complex issues affecting the behaviour, wellbeing, learning and/or safety of children, and who had received social care support from services that had broadly adopted a trauma-inform…
Tags, tagging, tagged, # - undisciplining organ-ization of [academic] bodies
We write as a collaborative mode of embodied writing that moves, tags, and re-sites us elsewhere, that mis/dis/aligns self-other, and permeates various stable body(boundaries). We write as a group of (un)bounded (virtual) bodies who aim to collectively create and tag arguments. We write as a collective body where materialities, ideas, discussions and writing become in the doing. Different relational collective practices shared here disturb, dispe…
Pedagogies of mattering
This article engages posthuman theory to propose a rethinking of the theory and practice of relational pedagogies within higher education (HE). There has been renewed emphasis within HE discourses on the significance of relationships within learning and teaching as a means to offer a counter-view to an uncaring marketised HE system. This article argues the need to build on and extend the current framing of relational pedagogies. It argues for an …
Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s)
Critical feminist materialist theorizing opens up possibilities for enacting different ways of knowledge making. In this article, I connect feminist materialist inquiry with time and temporality to develop a line of inquiry to reimagine the nature of multiple future(s). Employing theorizing developed by Francesca Ferrando, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, and thinking with the concepts of Multiverse, spacetimemattering, and agential cuts, I develo…
String Figuring young children's perspectives of quality in English early childhood education and care
Quality in early childhood education and care (ECEC) is a contested concept and has generally been conceptualised by inter‐related indicators such as staff qualifications, educational environment, policy or child‐to‐staff ratios. There has been a more limited emphasis on how young children might perceive and experience quality. This empirical paper employs a research‐creation methodology in combination with feminist materialist theory, notably Ha…
Al/luring Possibilities
This article works with the theory-methodology-praxis of lure and allure to muse on, speculate and reimagine possibilities for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise (AWO). We discuss our use of creative academic writing to materialise what happens when we embody the allure of the lure in our writing, and how we summon playfully creative academic writings into new becomings. AWO is a creative mode of theory-praxis which affords…
Image-Text-Riffs
Focusing on walking-encounter-ings for thinking-doing-imagining qualitative research otherwise, and composed as a series of intermezzo image-text-riffs, this article enacts artful inquiry as a mode of radical empiricism. It considers what walking-encounter-ings enable as sensorial-embodied-affective inquiry; how they prompt curious and creative experimentation; and how they may release speculative possibilities to imagine alternative nows and bet…
Academic Writing Otherwise
This article opens a space of possibility for thinking-doing-making-creating Academic Writing Otherwise. Based on a series of activity-activations we explore what academic writing might become when loosed from conventional prescriptions to explain, exemplify, demonstrate, justify, argue, and account for. What happens if we decide to write otherwise? How can we enable writing’s perturbations to proliferate? How can writing otherwise be a mode of p…
Forming a professional identity
This paper investigates graduates’ perceptions of quality provision in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC). Drawing on qualitative data from former and final-year Early Childhood Studies (ECS) students across three English higher education institutions, the study explores how higher education and placement shape graduates’ approaches to and perceptions of quality when working with children from birth to five years of age. Freire's approach …
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