EJ Renold

Cardiff University, School of Social Sciences, Faculty Member

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EJ Renold is Professor of Childhood Studies at the School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University, Wales. She is the author of 'Girls, Boys and Junior Sexualities' (2005), co-editor Children, Sexuality and Sexualisation' (with Jessica Ringrose and Danielle Egan, 2015) and the co-editor of the book series “Routledge Critical Studies in Gender and Sexuality in Education”. Inspired by feminist, queer and new materialist posthumanist theory, her research investigates how gender and sexuality come to matter in children and young people’s everyday lives across diverse sites, spaces and locales. Here, (see www.productivemargins.ac.uk) she has explored the affordances of co-productive, creative and affective methodologies to engage social and political change with young people on gendered and sexual violence, and relationships and sexuality education (see www.agendaonline.co.uk).
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Address: School of Social Sciences,
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Wales, UK
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Becoming eventful: making the ‘more-than’ of a youth activist conference matter

by EJ Renold and Tuija Huuki

Research in Drama Education: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Performance, 2020

This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource,... more This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based
online youth activist resource, AGENDA (www.agendaonline.co.uk)
is becoming eventful and re-mattering youth voice on gender and
sexual violence. Utilising the concept of the ‘cwrdd’ – a Welsh
word for gatherings made, found and stumbled upon – we
explore how our AGENDA cwrdds attune to, nurture and platform
a range of micro-political moments across performances and
workshops that entangle human and non-human participants.
Inspired by Erin Manning’s concept of the ‘more-than’, we
illustrate how the cwrdds carry the past-present-future potentials
of what has mattered and is mattering to young people.

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What More Do Bodies Know?: Moving with the Gendered Affects of Place

Body and Society , 2020

This article focuses on what bodies know yet which cannot be expressed verbally. It starts with a... more This article focuses on what bodies know yet which cannot be expressed verbally. It starts with a problem encountered during conventional interviewing in an ex-mining community in south Wales when some teen girls struggled to speak. This led us to focus on the body, corporeality and movement in improvisational dance workshops. By slowing down and speeding up video footage from the workshops, we notice movement patterns and speculate about how traces of gendered body-movement practices developed within mining communities over time become actualised in girls' habitual movement repertoires. Inspired by the works of Gilles Deleuze, Felix Guattari and Erin Manning, a series of cameos (room dancing; the hold; the wiggle; the leap and dance of the not-yet) are presented. We speculate about relations between the actual movements we could see, the in-act infused with the history of place and the virtual potential of what movement.

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Becoming eventful: making the 'more-than' of a youth activist conference matter

Research in Drama and Education (RiDE), 2020

This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource,... more This paper theorises the speculative process of how an arts-based online youth activist resource, AGENDA (www.agendaonline.co.uk) is becoming eventful and re-mattering youth voice on gender and sexual violence. Utilising the concept of the 'cwrdd'-a Welsh word for gatherings made, found and stumbled upon-we explore how our AGENDA cwrdds attune to, nurture and platform a range of micro-political moments across performances and workshops that entangle human and non-human participants. Inspired by Erin Manning's concept of the 'more-than', we illustrate how the cwrdds carry the past-present-future potentials of what has mattered and is mattering to young people.

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Becoming AGENDA the making and mattering of a youth-activist resource on gender and sexual violence

Reconceptualising Educational Research Methodology , 2019

What happens when 'the margins of manouverability' (Massumi 2016) in a specific socio-political c... more What happens when 'the margins of manouverability' (Massumi 2016) in a specific socio-political context are buzzing with promise and possibility? What might some crafty and serious play with the feminist posthuman ethics of research/er reponse-ability (Barad 2007) cook up in such a conducive soup? This paper shares the pARTicipatory praxis that informed the creation of 'AGENDA: A Young People's Guide to Making Positive Relationships Matter' (Renold 2016). AGENDA is a 75 page youth-activist bilingual (Welsh-English) interactive tool-kit co-created with and for young people in Wales to address gendered and sexual violence. Crafted with an affirmative cut and nurturing a run-away praxis that secretes its own coordinates , AGENDA invites a careful re-mattering of 'what matters' and 'how' when it comes to conventional healthy relationships education. The paper offers a careful cartography of how AGENDA unfolded as a lively resource that continues to matter as it connects to policy and practice assemblages that push-pull the agential becomings of AGENDA on its way.

format_quoteUnder 300 students participated in political action, providing reasons for healthy relationship education to influence VAWDASV policy improvements.format_quote

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Moving with the folds of time and place: exploring gut reactions in speculative transdisciplinary research with teen girls in a post-industrial community

Feminist Transdisciplinary Research Practices: Innovations in Theory, Method and Practice, 2020

The chapter focuses on a gut holding mannerism, observed in an improvised movement workshop with ... more The chapter focuses on a gut holding mannerism, observed in an improvised movement workshop with teen girls living in an ex-industrial town in south Wales (UK), as a vantage point from which to explore what more the gesture might be telling us. Drawing on Gille Deleuze’s (1993) readings of Leibniz concept of ‘Fold’ as a differential, we speculatively explore scalar orders of time, space and matter. Using a diffractive analysis (Barad, 2007; Haraway, 2008) with a transdisciplinary compass we offer three speculative journeys that fold outwards from the gut-holding mannerism: folds of time and place; gender unfolds and gut reactions. By taking the gut holding mannerism as a fulcrum we imagine folds that become larger and larger expanding into space, place and the universe, or become smaller and smaller by focussing on corporeal-movement, psycho-dynamic experiences and the ‘thinking gut’ (Wilson, 2015). We question what more the gut mannerism can illuminate, what more girls can be, and what more ex-mining communities might become.

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Anticipating the more-than: working with prehension in artful interventions with young people in a post-industrial community

Futures: the journal of policy, planning and future studies, , 2019

Inspired by speculative, post-qualitative research practices, this paper is framed within new fem... more Inspired by speculative, post-qualitative research practices, this paper is framed within new feminist materialist ontologies of immanence to explore anticipation as the potentialities of the virtual, a prehension (Manning 2013) that can be glimpsed in bodies, movements and artful processes of creation. These ‘prehensive’ potentialities are explored with an arts-based praxis, developed over many years, with young people living in an ex-mining community experiencing post-industrial trauma to interrupt the sedimented practices that can lock some young people into feeling stuck and trapped.

The paper follows a series of carefully composed events during a residential adventure weekend with a group of young people who wanted to explore their troubles by pushing their bodies to the limit with a range of physical activities and arts-based interventions. With ‘art as the way’ (Manning 2016), four speculative sections map how our speculative praxis enabled us to attune to the embodied and embedded affects of everyday practices, fears and concerns. We describe how prehensions as feelings, movements and images emerged and were transformed into creative artefacts; how these artefacts materialised affective prehensions as new and past potentials signalling the ‘more than’ of young people’s beingness, as a kind of buried, unknown-known anticipation; and how the artefacts continue to vibrate as micro-political affective matter in the after life of the project that none of us could have anticipated.

Citation: Renold, E. and Ivinson, G. (in press) Anticipating the more-than: working with prehension in artful interventions with young people in a post-industrial community, in K. Facer and T. Fuller (ed) Special Issue ‘Questions of Anticipation’ in Futures: the journal of policy, planning and future studies,

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