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This study explores critical posthumanism in nursing, emphasizing its potential for an antifascist, feminist, and ecological approach. It highlights how performativity and intra-activity can de-hierarchize knowledge creation for more equitable nursing futures.

Keywords:
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Area of Science:

  • Philosophy of Nursing
  • Critical Theory
  • Posthumanism

Background:

  • The 25th International Philosophy of Nursing Conference (IPNC) convened experts to discuss critical posthumanism's role in nursing.
  • Panelists from the US, Canada, UK, and Germany contributed to the discourse.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the operations and potential of critical posthumanism within the field of nursing.
  • To explore performativity and intra-activity as methods for de-hierarchizing knowledge production in academic settings.

Main Methods:

  • Focus on process and performance (per/formance) and performativity.
  • Application of critical feminist and new materialist philosophies.
  • Analysis of relational, connected, and situated knowledge-making practices.

Main Results:

  • Critical posthumanism offers an antifascist, feminist, material, affective, and ecologically entangled approach to nursing and healthcare.
  • Intra-activity and performativity can de-hierarchize knowledge-making in traditional conference spaces.
  • Developing critical cartographies of thinking and being fosters equitable futures.

Conclusions:

  • Critical posthumanism provides a robust framework for advancing nursing and healthcare.
  • Embracing performativity and intra-activity can lead to more inclusive and equitable knowledge creation.
  • This approach supports a more just future for nursing, encompassing all beings and matter.