ABSTRACT
Critique is a process that demands engagement with contemporary circumstances, a capacity to act, and an engagement with place and context. It requires a readiness to move and to be moved. My conception of critique 63is similar to the process of engaged research that Amanda Third examines. She cites a researcher (known as interviewee E) who describes the process of active research as being ‘all in the timing. You have to be on guard, always ready to intervene, to push the boundaries, to throw out a challenge. It is this capacity to react – almost instinctually but with the full force of what you know activated in the moment – that is the mark of the engaged researcher’ (E quoted in Third 2016: 107).
