1st Edition

The Critical Posthumanities and Postqualitative Inquiry in Psychology Supporting Connoisseurship and Inviting Deliberation

Edited By Javier Monforte, Brett Smith Copyright 2026
180 Pages
by Routledge

180 Pages
by Routledge

At the turn of the 21st century, after decades of resisting the quantitative imperative, qualitative psychology and the psychological humanities seemed to have found some respite. However, the sense of stability was soon disrupted by the posthuman and postqualitative critique of humanism and the conventional assumptions and practices of qualitative research. How have (qualitative) psychologists... Read more

The critical posthumanities and postqualitative inquiry in psychology: an introduction

Javier Monforte and Brett Smith

 

1. A primer for post qualitative inquiry

Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre

 

2. Persons in a posthuman world

Svend Brinkmann

 

3. Experience without essentialism: on ‘posting’ phenomenology

Jesper Aagaard and Robert Rosenberger

 

4. Failing ethnographies as post-qualitative possibilities: reflections from critical posthumanities and critical disability studies

Bojana Daw Srdanovic, Nikita Hayden, Dan Goodley, Rebecca Lawthom and Katherine Runswick-Cole

 

5. Critical posthumanisms, postqualitative inquiry, and conventional qualitative research: some interrogations and contemplations on their entangled identities and futurities

Martin Camiré

 

6. Making the universe together: Baradian inspirations for the future of qualitative psychology

Rowan Sandle, Brendan Gough, Katy Day and Tom Muskett

 

7. Psychology, the posts, and qualitative research: a conclusion

Vivienne Bozalek and Michalinos Zembylas

 

Biography

Javier Monforte is an assistant professor in the Department of Physical Education and Sport at the University of València, Spain.

Brett Smith is a professor in the Department of Sport and Exercise Sciences at Durham University, UK.