Writing into the space of the 'other'

Poststructural epistemologies entail the destabilizing of subjectivities in research. This paper demonstrates how fictional, collective and other performative textual practices might be taken up to write the 'others' of our research, including ourselves, other/wise in academia. Theorising writing through the work of Adriana Cavarero, Judith Butler and others, the author details three projects through which she attempted to write her way beyond the limitations of her self and of usual constructions of research validity and reflexivity. Rigorous imagining was used to provoke the dissolution of subjectivities, to unsettle and estrange and to open new questions about the nature of ethical textual representation in research.