📖 Introduction
Most researchers write notes every day. This banality positions note-taking as practice requiring little explanation: We read something, attend a lecture, or make a research observation, and then commit it to paper (digital or otherwise), storing it for retrieval at a later date (or not). As educators
Lavinia Marin and Sean Sturm (2021)
Marin, L., & Sturm, S. (2021). ‘Why aren’t you taking any notes?’ On note-taking as a collective gesture. Educational Philosophy...
Gimenez, G., & Pinel, J. P. (2013). A Proposed Method of Group Observation and Note-Taking from a Psychoanalytical Perspective. Group...Marin & Sturm, 2021
Gimenez & Pinel, 2013
Bound up with my own frustration with note-taking as a graduate student in the overlapping space of social sciences and humanities, I use this paper to position
notes as critical media for academic knowledge production
As a form of writing, note-taking is an inherently creative act, always involving thought rather than simply representing it (Gibbs,...
Most of the literature on note-taking focuses on writing individual notes on a particular topic, usually with an emphasis on...
Whether understood as materializations of memory or the process of situated thought itself, notes do not stand alone: They are...
Considering the varying conceptualizations of notes as representations, constructions, and structures of knowledge in relation to feminist epistemological concerns, ...📖 Notes as constructions of knowledge
📖 Notes as representations of knowledge
📖 Notes as structures of knowledge
📖 Four nodes of a feminist note-taking methodology
While some attention has been made to emphasize the importance of producing accurate and representational notes—sometimes offering practical tips to inform note-taking practices—there is little discussion about what to do with these notes once they have been produced. This gap has consequences, as the knowledge a note produces is always also informed by its contextual relationships, including its location and its relationship to other notes and ideas. Organizing notes into particular themes, sources, and categories via folders, notebooks, and boxes inform what kind of claims can be made with them in the first place, often siloing particular information from others. Notebooks or digital My Documents folders—shared or private—are thus similar to institutional archives in that they are always tied up with power: They inform what is worth knowing and shape how it can be known (
Schwartz & Cook, 2002
Schwartz, J. M., & Cook, T. (2002). Archives, records, and power: The making of modern memory. Archival Science, 2(1), 1–19....Schwartz & Cook, 2002
Notes are rarely framed within the context of social justice but they can inform the collection, synthesis, and retrieval of knowledge, especially in research contexts. This makes note-taking foundational to academic knowledge production and thus worth considering critically in our everyday work. Developing a networked note-taking system, I argue, presents one ordinary space where new paths can potentially emerge which challenge the “default setting” of academia towards more socially just ends (
Ahmed, 2019
Ahmed, S. (2019). What’s the use? On the uses of use. Duke University Press.
...Ahmed, 2019
👈 📖 Table of Contents
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Networked note-taking as feminist research method Introduction Conceptualizing notes as... Representations of knowledge Constructions of knowledge Structures of knowledge Four nodes of a feminist note-taking methodology Atomicity Flatness Interconnection Iteration Conclusion Works...
📖 Notes as representations of knowledge
Most of the literature on note-taking focuses on writing individual notes on a particular topic, usually with an emphasis on...