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second approach is to explore the different ‘goods’ embedded in each real. For instance
in enactments of workplace learning, questions of politics can exist as goods of worker
empowerment and resistance to oppressive conditions in labour studies, of strategies for
gaining advantage in management studies, and of negotiations of educative content and
delivery in adult education. Comparing these helps surface hidden normativities woven
into the very fabric of different worlds, and steps aside from ideological deadlock over
ethics and purpose. Law’s third methodological option is to explore what he calls
collateral realities, performing a sort of ontological archaeology to examine the qualities
of different objects in different spatialities. This approach, he suggests, can expose
hidden enacted realities, their collusions and their limits. A fourth option is
juxtaposition, placing noncoherent objects against one another, then moving them around, to explore the tensions and fluidities that emerge among them in different
configurations.