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.
Author(s): Matthew K. E. Thomas; Robin Bellingham
Series: Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Year: 2020
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
