Narrative, Discourse and Pedagogy (NDP) is an interdisciplinary research unit in the College of Arts working at the intersections of the social sciences, the performative, visual and literary arts, and philosophy. The distinctive features of NDP are, on the one hand, its innovative social science research methodologies incorporating elements of the visual, literary and performative arts, and, on the other, its strong base in the conceptual work of poststructuralist philosophers such as Butler, Deleuze and Foucault. It works with concepts such as subjectification, governmentality, performative, and explores the discursive practices and relations of power through which particular social worlds are constituted. At the heart of this conceptual field lies the question what is it that makes for a viable life? The research within NDP focuses on specific, historically and institutionally situated lives and asks how it is that such lives are made, and how might they be made differently in order to bring about individual and social well-being. While a major focus is on individuals and groups deprived of viable lives, the focus is also on the ordinariness of everyday lives as they intersect with difference and with social change.
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