Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that presents an engagement with postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments. It focuses on postfoundational paradigms enveloped in the ontological turn, new empiricisms, and new materialisms. The chapters offer enactments to spur new connectives and 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.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 264 pages
Publication date: 29 September 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that seeks to transcend a mere critique and deconstruction of method, aiming to engage with diverse postfoundational frameworks and approaches that generate novel concepts and enactments. What sets this book apart is its singular focus on postfoundational paradigms, borrowed from the humanities and sciences, enveloped within the ontological turn, new empiricisms, and new materialisms.

Postfoundational inquiry is envisioned by the editors as an emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive approach. While the editors identify the various facets of these contingent approaches and elucidate their mechanisms, their purpose is not to establish a new method but rather to inspire new connections. Within this collection, authors explore a diverse range of postfoundational theories, including poststructuralism, posthumanism, postcolonialism, feminist new materialism, speculative/new empiricism, agential realism, immanent ontologies, and affect theory.

Motivated by a series of reorienting questions, the chapters in the book offer enactments as a means of unraveling what is unthought, yet to be, and becoming. The chapters are organized into 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 serves as a standalone text in advanced qualitative inquiry courses or as a supplementary text in courses that explore the use of theory in research.

Weight: 460g
Dimension: 156 x 234 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032287911