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Questions of You and the Struggle of Collaborative Life explores the nature of the collaborative experience. It examines the complex issues involved as two educators work together to understand the conceptual perspectives they develop, the research processes they create, and the multiple, shifting possibilities for personal and social change at stake in such searching and making. Organized around diverse analytic approaches including narrative, autobiographic, fictive, poetic, and theoretic genres, this book is an experimental project that examines what we may know, how we might know, and in what ways we can express our understanding of the collaborative research experience.
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"'Questions of You and the Struggle of Collaborative Life' is a nuanced account of the geography of collaborative research. Elegantly written and enchantingly provocative, this book chronicles the reflexive encounters of two educators who have worked together for over 25 years. It lays bare the sinewy connective tissue of intersubjectivity to reveal the enabling possibilities and selective alliances that together gesture toward a critical pedagogy of intersubjectivity. This is a book about the tacit and embodied dimension of collaborative research; its layered intensities and iconoclastic pathways of development make it a highly original work and an important contribution to critical research." (Peter McLaren, University of California, Los Angeles)
"'Questions of You and the Struggle of Collaborative Life' is a sensitive and provocative journey through the collaborative research process of two university professors. This book explores the edges and margins of professional life in the academy and - in the postmodern spirit - does not simply evaluate collaborative research from a detached vantage point, but 'evokes' a response from within an autobiographical framework. The authors foreground the complexities of collaborative research by placing themselves within the dialogue. The book is engaging, and lively - and poetic at times. It is a perfect complement to the authors' previous work, 'Daredevil Research'. This text gives 'Daredevil Research' a phenomenological context - a life story. The previously unspoken absences become present in a most refreshing and creative dialogue. Additionally, the disappointments and conflicts of the collaborative research process are not sanitized. The authors successfully accomplish their goal of evaluating the following processes: developing a social and intellectual life; negotiating the phenomena of power, knowledge, language, and identity; and creating contexts for dialogue to occur across these diverse discursive and emotional productions. I thank Nicholas Paley and Janice Jipson for an honest, bold, and poetic autobiographical collaborative research journey in 'Questions of You and the Struggle of Collaborative Life'. They are not only daredevils but visionaries." (Patrick Slattery, Texas A&M University)
"A compelling, insightful, and highly readable text that ought to be in everyone's library." (Karen Anijar and Tom Barone, Arizona State University)
