Full Description
Calling for qualitative research that is complex, situational, theoretically situated, and yet productive, Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research discusses the multiplicities and uncertainty embedded in different methodological configurations and entanglements that blur the boundaries between doing research, theorizing, thinking, and reflecting. Writing in a clear, conversational style, author Mirka Koro-Ljungberg urges readers to think about qualitative research differently, often in creative ways, and to continuously question existing grand narratives and dogmas.
Contents
About the Author
Random yet Necessary Appreciation Notes
The (Un)Structure of This Book
1: A Proxy for a Foreword
2: Methodological Language Creates "Realities": Labels and Language Matter
Why Do Labels Matter?
Different Uses of Labels
Qualitative Researchers' Romance With the Meaning
Labels Create, Act, Provoke, and Do Other Things
Using Labels of Reflexivity and Triangulation
Possibilities of Linguistic Creativity and Innovation in Research: Living With Words Without Stable Meaning
Reading List of Life
3. Data-Wants and Data Entanglements: Data Matter
Data Directionality
The Dilemma of Data-Wants
Data's Past
Data Object
Interlude: Knowledge Context
Analytical Interactions in the Existing Literature
What Might Data Want?
The Paradox of Wanting/Interacting
Reading List of Life
Irruption 1: Introducing Undirectionality and Uncertainty Through Images
4. Fluid Methodological Spaces: Methodologies Matter
What Do Linear Methodologies Do?
What Might Happen in Fluid Methodological Spaces?
Conceptualizing Fluid and Incorporeal Methodological Spaces
Connecting With Massumi and Deleuze
Connecting With Baudrillard
Connecting With Mol and Law
Annemarie Mol's Fluid Methodology
Another Conceptualization Beyond Mol's Methodological Singularity
The Unexpected Lives of Methodologies Without Methodology
Reading List of Life
5. Afterword: This Project (and Other Projects Alike) May Be "Failing" Productively
Irruption 2: Performance, Philosophy, and Not-Knowing
6. Methodological Responsibility Outside Duty: Responsibility Matters
Why Does Responsibility Matter?
The Role of Research Responsibility in Forming Public Policy
Return to Responsibility
Imaging Responsibility as Resisting Closure and Holding a Space for the Other
Imaging Responsibility as Responding to Urgency
Imaging Responsibility as Rupturing Tradition, Authority, and Order
Researchers' Responsibilities To Come
Reading List of Life
7. Teaching and Learning the Unteachable: Pedagogies Matter
Teaching Through the Teachable Past and Transferable Experiences
Dilemma 1: Qualitative Research Occurs "Here" or "There"
Dilemma 2: Qualitative Research Methods as Luxury or Necessity
Dilemma 3: Qualitative Research Methods May Be Personally Favored but Socially Marginalized
Learning With(out) Teachable Teaching
Teaching With the Past: Some Ghost Stories
Curriculum Events and Erasure of a Ghost Curriculum
A Series of Unthinkable and Unknowable Classroom Events
Beginning Again and Again: New Projects, New Methodologies
Reading List of Life
8. Productive Paradoxes in Participant-Driven Research: Communities and Audiences Matter
Body Maps as Tools for Reflection on PDR
PDR Exemplars from Student Researchers
Working Together With the National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI): A Community-Based Classroom Project
Voice, Diversity, and Literacy Leadership With Young Children at Risk: Learning From and With Child-Care Workers
Another Understanding of PDR: Where To Go From Here
Reading List of Life
Irruption 3: Living Uncertainty
References
Index
