%0 Journal Article
%T Charting a politics of hope through representation
%A Phillip Wadick
%J Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
%D 2012
%I 
%X Editor¡¯s summary: Phillip Wadick comments ¡®I have been forced to insert my body into the frame as I contemplate what facilitates safe bodies¡¯.  His various representational forms support a position towards workplace health and safety research that offers alternatives to dominant structuralist and positivist paradigms that tend to objectify and commodify the body. His ¡®wanderings and wonderings¡¯ occur in a field where workers¡¯ are so sceptical of the about ¡®visibility politics¡¯ around safety they expose themselves to bodily risks.  The disjunction between the ¡®theoretical and impersonal bodies¡¯ of dominant technical and medical discourses of workplace safety and the human encounters and social interactions affecting ¡¯individual and personal bodies¡¯ led him to disrupt ¡®old certainties¡¯ and fixed oppositions in favour of poststructuralist thinking and alternative forms of representing knowledge. Hope emerged where workers ¡®found energy for change in the space between the arbitrary and unhelpful oppositions¡¯.
%U https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/488