Abstract
Rosi Braidotti has said that: “The global system of post-industrial and newly industrializing worlds … function … in a fragmented and all-pervasive manner …. [yet] power relations in globalization are more ruthless than ever,” (Angelaki J, Theor Humanit 17(2):169–176, 2012, p. 169). In order to deal with ruthless power relations in education, this chapter builds an activist framework for research based on the writing of Félix Guattari (Schizoanalytic cartographies (Trans, A. Goffey). Bloomsbury, London, 2013). Guattari moved beyond analytical frameworks to express the relationships contained in superdiversity (Vertovec, Ethnic Racial Stud 30(6):1024–1054, 2007), capitalism and subjectivity. This chapter explains the unconscious diagram from Guattari and applies it to young Muslims in Australia on Facebook and Sudanese families in Australia.
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Notes
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Cf. Mony Elkaïm, “Schizoanalyse et thérapie familiale: Ce que j’ai appris de Féliz Guattari,” available at http://www.therapie-familiale.org/resonances/pdf/monyelkaim.pdf
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“In a book, as in all things, there are lines of articulation or segmentarity, strata and territories; but also lines of flight, movements of deterritorialization and destratification. Comparative rates of flow on these lines produce phenomena of relative slowness and viscosity, or, on the contrary, of acceleration and rupture. All this, lines and measurable speeds constitutes an assemblage. A book is an assemblage of this kind, and as such is unattributable. It is a multiplicity—but we don’t know yet what the multiple entails when it is no longer attributed, that is, after it has been elevated to the status of the substantive.” (Deleuze and Guattari 1988, p. 3).
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Interview with Guattari by Jacques Pain, “Institutional Practice and Politics,” in The Guattari Reader, (Genosko 1996, p. 122). Originally published in Jacques Pain, (Ed.) (1985). Pratiques de l’institutionnel et politique. Vigneux: Matrice.
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The theme occurs throughout Guattari’s first book, 1972, Psychanalyse et transversalité: Essais d’analyse institutionnelle. Paris : La Découverte. For example in “Introduction à la psychothérapie institutionnelle.”
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I have been inspired in this reading of Guattari’s (2013) Schizoanalytic Cartographies by Chapter 19 of Brian Holmes’ online book: Escape the Overcode. Available at: http://brianholmes.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/book-materials/
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In A Thousand Plateaus (1988), Deleuze and Guattari picked up the critique of hylomorphism in the work of Gilbert Simondon and developed a non-hylomorphic or “artisanal” theory of production, in which artisans develop forms out of the suggested potentials of matter, instead of imposing their own creative ideas on passive matter. Simondon saw the political significance of hylomorphism as ‘a socialized representation of work,’ the viewpoint of a master commanding slave labor. Deleuze and Guattari suggested that a hylomorphic representation of a body politic can be used to justify fascism, in which a leader comes from on high to rescue his people by imposing order on chaos.
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See, for example an ABC interview with the former Immigration Minister, Kevin Andrews, at: http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2007/s2057250.htm
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This study was funded by the SSHRC (Canada) International Opportunity Grant – Immigrant Families and Multiple Literacies: Policy, Classroom and Community Connections Across Australia and Canada. Full ethics permissions were obtained for this study and all names and pictures have been de-identified. The research was carried out by Professor Diana Masny (University of Ottawa), Associate Professor David R Cole (University of Western Sydney) and a research assistant.
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Cole, D.R. (2016). Unearthing the Forces of Globalisation in Educational Research Through Guattari’s Cartographic Method. In: Cole, D., Woodrow, C. (eds) Super Dimensions in Globalisation and Education. Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education, vol 5. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0312-7_9
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