Market adaptation, fragmentation and precariousness have been widely documented as problematic features of knowledge production processes in the university. This article follows an undercurrent of critical scholarship to explore how paths of resistance can be opened up by researching otherwise. The article builds on autoethnographic notes from a collective and non-funded research project aimed at gathering in situ narratives from people who experienced the 2013 Stockholm Riots. The research strategy behind this project, its organization as well as its results and reception, is here used as a point of departure to scrutinize the conditions of the possibility of critical knowledge production. The article draws attention to a critical place for doing research – in the cracks of the university – which arguably complicates the academic–public divide and keeps open discursive spaces during troubling moments of closure.

市场适应，分散和不稳定已被广泛记录为大学知识生产过程中的问题特征。本文遵循批判性学术的潮流，探讨如何通过其他方式来打开抵抗之路。本文基于一项集体且无资金资助的研究项目的民族志笔记，旨在收集经历过2013年斯德哥尔摩暴动的人们的现场叙述。该项目背后的研究策略，其组织以及其结果和接受程度在此处用作出发点，以仔细研究关键知识产生的可能性条件。