A Field Guide to Academic Becoming

Abstract

This article twists, folds, iterates, and proliferates figurations of field in/of/outside the academy as it works to undercut the taken-for-granted assumptions about the field and its borders and boundaries. I question how making boundaries fuzzy might work to open up radical possibilities for knowledge production and becoming with/in fields. Furthermore, the article considers how the way in which we tell ourselves stories of fields and our place(s) in them matters. How might we do different research or do research differently if we reconsider the cuts we always already make between field/researcher/researched? Can fieldness disappear and would we want it to?