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.

Foreword: Refusing Man and His Method in Postfoundational Inquiry 1. Postfoundational Inquiry After Method: Reorientations, Enactments, and Openings; Atmospheres, Affects, and Hauntings 2. Sonic Disruptions to Sexual Violence Lessons in the Science Lab: A Postfoundational Discursive-Material-Affective-Sensorial Approach 3. Affective Attunements to Violence in Educational Inquiry: Queering Critique 4. Atmospheric data and software arts: New Ways of Investigating the Built Environment 5. Absence and Refusing the Given; Archives, Worldings, and Sketchings 6. A performative and Vibrant Cartography: Re-animating the Archive 7. Adventures Requiring Care and Recklessness: A Playful Archive 8. Common Worlding Pedagogies in Early Childhood 9. Inquiry As If Sketch 10. Inquiring with Cascade Questioning: Sketching a Phenomenon; Escaping Tradition, Beginning Elsewhere, and the Politics of Doing Otherwise 11. "All Things are One:" Postfoundational Inquiries and Pre-Socratic Western Thought 12. Pedagogy in the Context of Postfoundational Inquiry: Reading-Writing-Thinking-Making Together 13. Ontologies of Possibility and Loss in Posthumanist Inquiry: Lessons from the Study of Systemic Racism; Pre-personal Agencies and Thought Taking Flight 14. Dancing with the Chinese "Wind" as Postfoundational Inquiry 15. Multiple Storying of Crisis and Hope: Feminist New Materialisms as an Emergent Ethico-onto-epistemology of Multiple Messmates at Different Scales 16. Transversal Inquiry: The "Adventure of the Involuntary"