Bodying Postqualitative Research: On Being a Researching Body within Fissures of Humanism

Bodying Postqualitative Research explores the implications of engaging lived, fleshy human bodies in postqualitative research in education. It challenges dominant research structures and offers alternative perspectives through postqualitative conceptions of data, methodology, and clarity. The book proposes caffeine shakes, antipsychotic medications, and scars as moments to consider how bodies engage in research practices. It concludes by asking what bodying postqualitative research might mean for pedagogy and future inquiry, drawing together feminist science and education scholars from the biosciences.

Format: Hardback
Length: 86 pages
Publication date: 21 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Postqualitative Research explores the intriguing phenomenon of lived, fleshy human bodies engaging in educational research. At its core, this book delves into research propositions aimed at dismantling the dominant structures of humanism that typically govern educational research. By incorporating postqualitative conceptions of data, methodology, and clarity, alongside insights from feminist science studies scholars, it imagines innovative ways to 'body' postqualitative work.

This book employs the provocations offered by postqualitative research to challenge prevailing research logics, which have been shaped by neoliberalism and ongoing settler colonialism. It presents alternative perspectives that challenge these dominant narratives. Importantly, this book remains close to the body by proposing caffeine shakes, antipsychotic medications, and scars as moments to take seriously how bodies engage in research practices. After each chapter, the book employs poetry as a fracture or a moment of disruption to the text's rhythm, encouraging readers to reexamine the previous chapter from a different perspective.

In conclusion, this book raises important questions about the meaning of bodying postqualitative research for pedagogy and for future inquiries. By bringing together the work of feminist science and education scholars oriented toward the biosciences, who have not yet fully embraced postqualitative scholarship, this book offers a unique perspective that deepens and troubles postqualitative scholarship through its focus on the politics of science and the possibilities of doing bodies with biology, culture, and life.

This volume is particularly relevant for students and scholars interested in postqualitative and embodied research methods in education, as well as feminist and gender studies. It provides valuable insights and perspectives that will enrich the field of education research.

Weight: 330g
Dimension: 234 x 156 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032405612