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Worlding with Glitter: Vibrancy, Enchantment and Wonder

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This chapter contributes to affective and new materialist experimentation with methods through a focus on two workshops with teenage girls in which they collaged imaginations of futures, where glitter emerged as an especially significant material. The chapter considers the collaging workshops in terms of a method of worlding, arguing that methods are one way worlds are, and might be, made. It highlights the future-orientation of worlding, arguing that this requires us, as researchers, to consider the politics and ethics of worlding. It explores worlding by detailing what glitter does, both to me and to the participants, and suggesting that glitter functions to open up the possibilities of the future through how it cultivates capacities for enchantment and wonder for the participants. It concludes by drawing out from the specificities of glitter and these workshops to tentatively propose what a wider engagement with an experimentation with worlding might involve.

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Notes

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    Ofsted carry out regular inspections of schools, and their judgements and reports form the basis of school league tables. I cannot cite the Ofsted report here as my institutional ethical approval requires the school to remain anonymous.

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    On glitter, naivety and foolishness, see also Coleman and Osgood (2019).

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    For more on the significance of ‘-ings’ to methods, see Lury (2018) and Jungnickel (2020).

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    For further discussions of materials, collaging and methods, see Coleman (2009 and 2020) and Coleman and Osgood (2019).

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    I also often feel anxious that I do not really address the harms that glitter has on the natural environment, focusing rather on how worlding complicates the boundaries between ‘nature’ and ‘artificial’.

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    Rebecca Coleman

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    Britta Timm Knudsen

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    Mads Krogh

  3. School of Communication and Culture, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Carsten Stage

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Coleman, R. (2022). Worlding with Glitter: Vibrancy, Enchantment and Wonder. In: Timm Knudsen, B., Krogh, M., Stage, C. (eds) Methodologies of Affective Experimentation. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-96272-2_8

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