Immanent and diffractive critique in scholarship and publication

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ID13080100
AuthorsVivienne Bozalek (0000-0002-3212-1910, Rhodes University, corresponding author), Nike Romano (0000-0002-2480-3524, Cape Peninsula University of Technology)
Year2023
Volume11
IssueSI1
Publication date2023-01-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Studies in Teaching and Learning (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2310-7103 • E-ISSN: 2310-7103
PublisherUniversity of the Western Cape Library Service (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14426/cristal.v11isi1.1759
OpenAlexW4391938169
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited16

Criticality and critique require careful attention by authors, reviewers,and editors in Critical Studies in Teaching and Learning(CRiSTaL), since they form a central focus of the journal. Conventional views of critique are influenced by unexpressed assumptions that what is needed is an authoritative expert, who from a position of superiority and distance, diagnoses and pronounces on the inadequaciesof the text. This article explores more generative approaches to critique and criticality such as immanent critique and diffractive methodologies. We argue that in order for immanent critique and diffractive methodologies to happen, sensibilities such as attentiveness, response-ability, accountability, generosity,and curiosity are necessary. The final section of the paper considers academic practices of reviewing, writing, reading, pedagogy,and conferencing in relation to immanent critique and diffractive methodologies and the sensibilities we propose which make these forms of critique and criticality possible

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