Embodiment, Creativity, and Matter as Posthuman Agents in Research with Disabled Children

Abstract

In this paper I examine creative autonomy in research with children, as both complex and relational, and reflect on its role in countering the deceptive dualisms, such as researcher/ participant, adult/child, knowledge/embodiment, that can predetermine how participation is imagined. This reflection is a process of recalling memories, extending the analysis, and simultaneously offering new and evolving questions and affective connections through responses to photographs from a cross-cultural study with disabled children.