1st Edition

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry

Edited By Lisa A. Mazzei, Alecia Y. Jackson Copyright 2024
296 Pages 36 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 36 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

296 Pages 36 Color Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.