Will Viney will chair this Ends of Knowledge reading group and research seminar on projects and cases. We will discuss a set of readings in relation to Will Viney’s provocation that “projectifaction” and “case-work” structure the labour conditions produced by and in relation to critical medical humanities. How do these forms of knowledge, for example: the time-limited project as a paradigmatic form of critical medical humanities research in the UK, interact with the precarity of patient communities, research cultures, and associated collaborators?
To prepare, we recommend that you read the following three texts (PDFs of which are available in the website’s members section):
Forrester, John. ‘If p, Then What? Thinking in Cases’. History of the Human Sciences 9, no. 3 (1 August 1996): 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/095269519600900301.
Heney, Veronica, and Branwyn Poleykett. ‘The Impossibility of Engaged Research: Complicity and Accountability between Researchers, “Publics” and Institutions’. Sociology of Health & Illness 44, no. S1 (1 December 2022): 179–94. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13418.
Papoulias, Stan (Constantina), and Felicity Callard. ‘Material and Epistemic Precarity: It’s Time to Talk about Labour Exploitation in Mental Health Research’. Social Science & Medicine 306 (1 August 2022): 115102. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2022.115102.
You can access the reading materials and event Zoom link in this website’s password-protected Members section which will be regularly emailed out via our mailing list. Alternatively, please email James Rákóczi at endsofknowledge@gmail.com or james.rakoczi@durham.ac.uk for the Zoom link and let us know if you are having difficulty accessing any of the materials.
William Viney is a Research Associate in the Patient Experience Research Centre, Imperial College London. He currently conducts participatory research in health data practices and infrastructures. With Celia Lury and Scott Wark, he is the editor of Figure: Concept and Method (2022), and the author of Twins (2021) and Waste (2014). He is co-author of the field-influencing essay “Critical medical humanities: embracing entanglement, taking risks”, Medical Humanities, (2015) http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2015-010692.
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