Writing Intensions in Post-Qualitative Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Employing ‘intension’ (not to be confused with ‘intention’), this symposium considers writing intensions in post-qualitative inquiry (St. Pierre, 2011; Lather & St. Pierre, 2013). Panelists examine ‘intensities’ in writing research, deliberately shifting attention away from the ‘intention’ of writing, and towards considerations of writing’s densities, affects, senses, multiplicities, potentials, concentrations, saturations, pressures, excesses, and stressors. Panelists consider how writing, as a mode of educational research (Richardson & St. Pierre, 2005), can engage with and enact the multiplicity of possibilities in research events (Deleuze & Guattari, 1994), including the ‘aliveness’ of ‘data’, attenuations to the temporal and material intensities of writing, and engagements with the “more-than-representational” aspects of research encounters which escape words (Thrift, 2008).

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Marcelina Piotrowski, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• Writing In/ter/rup/tions - Paulina Semenec, The University of British Columbia

• Writing With Intensities - Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University; Jessica Van Cleave, Mars Hill University; Sarah Bridges-Rhoads, Georgia State University

• Writing in Movement - Claudia Diaz-Diaz, The University of British Columbia

• Elemental Writing: Toward Educational Inquiry as a Posthuman Media Ecology - Marcelina Piotrowski, The University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Susan Naomi Nordstrom, The University of Memphis