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Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments. What makes this book innovative is the singular focus on postfoundational paradigms, borrowed from the humanities and sciences, that are enveloped in what is referred to as the ontological turn, the new empiricisms, and the new materialisms.
Postfoundational inquiry is conceived by the editors as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. While the editors name the facets of these contingent approaches and explain how they work, they do so not in order to fix a new method, but to spur new connectives. In this collection, authors take up a range of postfoundational theories such as poststructuralism, posthumanism, postcolonialism, feminist new materialism, speculative/ new empiricism, agential realism, immanent ontologies, and affect theory. Provoked by a series of reorienting questions, chapters in the book offer enactments as a way of unfurling what is unthought, not yet, and becoming. The chapters are organized according to four Openings: Atmospheres, Affects, and Hauntings; Archives, Worldings, and Sketchings; Escaping Tradition, Beginning Elsewhere, and the Politics of Doing Otherwise; Pre-personal Agencies and Thought Taking Flight.
This book can be used as a standalone text in advanced qualitative inquiry courses, or as a supplementary text in courses that examine the use of theory in research.
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Foreword: Refusing man and his method in postfoundational inquiry
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
1 Postfoundational inquiry after method: reorientations, enactments, and openings
Alecia Y. Jackson and Lisa A. Mazzei
Atmospheres, affects, and hauntings
2 Sonic disruptions to sexual violence lessons in the science lab: a postfoundational discursive-material-affective-sensorial approach
Bárbara Berger Correa and Jessica Ringrose
3 Affective attunements to violence in educational inquiry: queering critique
Bessie P. Dernikos and Nancy Lesko
4 Atmospheric data and software arts: new ways of investigating the built environment
Elizabeth de Freitas and Laura Trafí-Prats
5 Absence and refusing the given
Asilia Franklin-Phipps
Archives, worldings, and sketchings
6 A performative and vibrant cartography: re-animating the archive
Dorthe Staunæs and Pil Mengel
7 Adventures requiring care and recklessness: a playful archive
Jayne Osgood
8 Common worlding pedagogies in early childhood
Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw and Mindy Blaise
9 Inquiry as if sketch
Petra Mikulan and Nathalie Sinclair
10 Inquiring with cascade questioning: sketching a phenomenon
Malou Juelskjær
Escaping tradition, beginning elsewhere, and the politics of doing otherwise
11 "All things are one:" postfoundational inquiries and pre-Socratic western thought
Marek Tesar
12 Pedagogy in the context of postfoundational inquiry: reading-writing-thinking-making together
Candace R. Kuby and Vivienne Bozalek
13 Ontologies of possibility and loss in posthumanist inquiry: lessons from the study of systemic racism
Jerry Lee Rosiek and Scott L. Pratt
Pre-personal agencies and thought taking flight
14 Dancing with the Chinese "wind" as postfoundational inquiry
Weili Zhao
15 Multiple storying of crisis and hope: feminist new materialisms as an emergent ethico-onto-epistemology of multiple messmates at different scales
Hillevi Lenz Taguchi and Teresa Elkin Postila
16 Transversal inquiry: the "adventure of the involuntary"
Maggie MacLure
Subject Index
Biography
Lisa A. Mazzei is Alumni Faculty Professor of Education at the University of Oregon, United States, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy. She is interested in philosophically informed inquiry that opens thought to the not yet.
Alecia Y. Jackson is Professor of Social Theory and Research at Appalachian State University, United States, where she is also Affiliated Faculty in the Gender, Women’s, and Sexuality Studies program. Her scholarship seeks to animate philosophical frameworks in the production of the new, and her current projects are focused on the ontological turn, qualitative inquiry, and thought.
