A Thousand Mondays: Reading Toward Smooth Methodological Spaces

• In Event: 47.098 - Sheraton Roundtable Session Eight - Osgoode Ballroom
  In Roundtable Session: 47.098-4 - New Possibilities, Traditional Methodologies

Abstract

In this paper, we draw on Ulmer’s (2017) slow methodology, Franklin-Phipps’ (2017) reading as a mode of inquiry, and Lenz Taguchi and St. Pierre’s (2017) concept as a method to explore the potentials of reading Deleuze and Guattari’s (1987) A Thousand Plateaus (ATP) and key postqualitative texts. Our interdisciplinary reading group, comprised of students from across our College of Education and a qualitative research professor, met each Monday to discuss the aforementioned texts. ATP concepts washed over us and rendered qualitative research imperceptible to itself. Here, we present lines of flight that materialize how concepts (i.e., state apparatus, nomadology, smooth and striated spaces, and becoming) created new possibilities of thinking and doing research differently in a post-truth world.

Authors

• Susan Naomi Nordstrom, The University of Memphis

• Rachel Diane Askew, The University of Memphis

• Leslee Bailey-Tarbett, The University of Memphis

• Margie King, The University of Memphis

• Wesam M. Salem, University of Memphis