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A nomadic journey through blogging
Veronica MitchellEducation Development Unit
Health Sciences FacultyUniversity of Cape Town, South Africa
Deleuze & Guattari & Africa
Conference
University of Cape Town July 2015
PhD Research project
Supervisors: Dr Michael Rowe & Prof Vivienne Bozalek
Funding: National Research Foundation
The medical undergraduate curriculum immerses students into a weak health system
where abuse, neglect and disrespect are prevalent
Developing a socially-just pedagogy in Obstetrics
A nomadic subjectivity in transposition constitutes the possibility of weaving together different strands and indicates (as in music)
“variations and shifts of scale in discontinuous but harmonious patterns”
Braidotti, 2006:5
It is anti-genealogical, with a multiplicity of connections and dimensions,
not constrained through bureaucracy rather a process that
“acts on desire by external productive outgrowths”
Deleuze & Guattari 1987:14
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"the map does not reproduce an unconscious closed in on itself;
it constructs the unconscious. It fosters connections between fields ...
[as it is] open and connectable in all of its dimensions; it is detachable, reversible,
susceptible to constant modification".
Deleuze and Guattari 1987:12
my becoming-researcher, becoming-art-creator,
becoming-iPad contrasts with the established majoritarian assemblages that
foreground binaries such as self/other and
researcher/data
Clark 2012
Conclusion
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ReferencesBarad, K. 2007. Meeting the universe halfway: Quantum physics and the entanglement ofmatter and meaning. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
Braidotti, R. 2006. Transpositions: On Nomadic Ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Clark, V. 2012. Art practice as possible worlds. International Journal of Child, Youth and Family Studies (2012) 2 & 3: 198–213.
Deleuze, G., & Guattari. F. 1987. A thousand plateaus: Capitalism and schizophrenia.Trans. B. Massumi. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
Sellers, M. 2013. Young children becoming curriculum: Deleuze, Te Wharriki and curricular understandings. Routledge.
My blog http://phd4veronica.blogspot.com/