Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies

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This book explores the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research. The contributors, based in Australia, Canada, the UK and USA, use theory and method to disrupt established traditions and create new and alternative possibilities for research in identity, agency, power, social justice, space, materiality, and other transformations. Using examples of recent and highly innovative research practices which meaningfully challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in education and social science, the editors and contributors open new ground for other ways of thinking about doing research in these fields. Major theoretical perspectives explored and applied include: posthumanism, poststructuralism, feminist theory, ecofeminism, new materialism, SF, and critical theory and the theorists drawn on include: Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Rosie Braidotti, Anna Tsing and Stacy Alaimo. Title page Copyright page Contents Series editor’s foreword Foreword Contributors Chapter 1: The vitality of theory in research innovation The vitality of theory Glows of vitality in open-ended research practices (Re)considering embodiment and reciprocity: The glow of experiential human/knowledge/world relations (Re)considering technoscientific practices: The glow of practices enabling ontological hesitation (Re)considering time, space and materiality: The glow of figurations for living with precarity and with possibility Opening at the close: What matters in future-oriented research? References Part One: Disruption, subjectivity and agency Chapter 2: Postproductive methods: Researching modes of relationality and affect worlds through participatory video with youth Poor images and postproduction as participation Affect, slow research and postproductive genres The mimetic chain: Linking up through YouTube production Reformatting: Destiny not-making the video self-portrait of her favourite place in the city Montage: Navigating disturbances in the contested present of JT’s ongoing video project Glossary References Chapter 3: Experimental critical qualitative inquiry: Disrupting methodologies, resisting subjects Introduction Humanism, posthumanism, agential realism and post-qualitative research ‘Biracial’ study rationale Study outline Study methods Sample study results and discussion The possibilities of ECQI and posthumanism research Glossary References Chapter 4: Troubling binaries: Gendering research in environmental education Introduction Doing gendered environmental education research Environmental subjectivities: an embodied example Disrupting ‘norms’ Conclusion Glossary References Chapter 5: The shame of participation: Rethinking the ontology of participation with a stutter Shameful participation? Disrupting participation in a research study Feelings in participatory research – and shame A stutter Stuttering participation Acknowledgements Glossary References Part Two: Frontiers: Possibility, times-pace and materiality Chapter 6: Posthumanist poetics and the transcorporeal, hypercorporeal chronotope Introduction Stories of uncertainty and indeterminacy Against banality as a matter of ethics A transcorporeal, hypercorporeal chronotope Language as virus Some concluding thoughts Glossary References Chapter 7: Who is in my office and which century/ies are we in? A pedagogical encounter Researching pedagogical encounters The Deleuzian event Structure of event The analytic site – Doctoral meetings ‘Black holes’ for analysis The pedagogical encounter Mapping From black holes and mapping Glossary References Chapter 8: Disturbance and intensive methodology in capitalist ruins Disturbance, assemblage and the work of Anna L. Tsing Unpredictability and difference: What is disturbance? Figures of disturbance Intensive methodologies and attention to disturbance Acknowledgements Glossary References Chapter 9: Transversalities in education research: Using heterotopias to theorize spaces of crises and deviation How do heterotopias function? Theoretical use of heterotopias Six heterotopic principles as a disruptive research method Bringing theory and method together with heterotopias Conclusion Glossary References Part Three: Entanglements and innovations: Method and theory Chapter 10: Swarms and murmurations Swarms and murmurations The initial project CVgRM in construction From method to swarm Enter the swarm Swarming theory into method Making the cut: Diffraction becomes murmuration Swarming method into data: Critical theory Swarming method into data: Cultural studies Swarming method into data: Critical pedagogy Between diffraction and murmuration Conclusion Acknowledgements Glossary References Chapter 11: Post-Anthropocene imaginings: Speculative thought, diffractive play and Women on the Edge of Time Introduction: Women on the Edge of Time Anthropocene nomenclature Speculative thought experiment 1– Unnaming the Anthropocene Imaginaries of the post-Anthropocene Speculative thought and diffractive methods Speculative thought experiment 2 – The shape of time Conclusion – The worldly indeterminacy of the pluriverse Glossary References Chapter 12: Replete sensations of the refrain: Sound, action and materiality in agentic posthuman assemblages Introduction Deleuzian theory, materialist research assemblages and the posthuman refrain Refrains in research work Bringing theory and method together through the refrain Refrains in interspecies becomings Refrains of social media flows Refrains in the research assemblage Conclusion Glossary References Index