Writing, digging, listening, carving.
This collective publication by MATLIT LAB brings together texts originally presented in a series of nine online workshops held weekly between March 3 and May 5, 2021. Conceived as testimonies and reflections on the process of writing a doctoral thesis, the texts situate this process in a way that is both theoretical and autoethnographic. By breaking down the question “how do you write a doctoral thesis” into a circumscribed set of smaller questions, these essays become demonstrations of their methodology for generating a retroaction between writing and thinking. They offer a tentative description of ways of negotiating multiple dimensions of the act of writing in advanced research based upon an approach to writing as a form of bodily, mental and cultural work. As a collaborative project, Escrever, escavar, escutar, esculpir [Writing, digging, listening, carving] highlights both the social nature of research and the possibility for transforming our models and practices for producing and validating knowledge.
Authors: Ana Marques, Ana Rita Sousa, Ana Sabino, Bruno Ministro, Daniela Côrtes Maduro, Diego Giménez, Diogo Marques, Fábio Waki, Manaíra Aires Athayde, Manuel Portela, Nuno Miguel Neves, Patrícia Reina, Priscila Monteiro, Raquel Gonçalves, Sofia Escourido, Tiago Santos.
Publication financed by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P., under project UIDB/00759/2020.
Coimbra: MATLIT LAB, 2025.