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A part-time PhD candidate enters dialogue with his nine-year-old daughter. They talk about responsibility: how it’s a central concern in his research, and how she makes sense of it. They also reflect on how responsibilities of writing and living are made to answer each other.
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Smissaert, C. (2018). That’s Responsibility. In: Wegener, C., Meier, N., Maslo, E. (eds) Cultivating Creativity in Methodology and Research. Palgrave Studies in Creativity and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60216-5_4
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