ABSTRACT

This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book revises and renews the aspirations of live sociological method as well as offering new articulations of live sociology, drawing on exemplary practices from within live art as well as from the practice-based research. It draws together conceptualisations of politics that foreground aesthetic, affective and sensory re/distribution of bodies and ideas in space/time. Some theoretical paths have been muddied in combining (at a minimum) queer, feminist, art-based and sociological theories in order that new 'bootleg trails' or theoretical 'desire paths' can be cleared for the empirical challenges of live research. Pedagogic considerations need to be integral to live sociological practice. Issues of teaching and learning are implicit in existing work on live methods. The book presents and enacts the potentialities of a live art of sociology by drawing on, or drawing attention to, practices developed in the context of live art.