Research as Being: Life in Methodological Ruins

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Abstract

This paper “troubles method” in qualitative research. The authors center four questions that arise in the ontological turn of social science research: (1) What are the possibilities of life in methodological ruins? (2) How can we disrupt the humanist subject of the “I?” (3) What about the relationship between qualitative research, politics, social change, and social justice? and (4) What does it mean to reconceptualize research without method—as a practice of being? These four questions arose during a book project wherein the authors recursively entangled six previously published works with theories from postqualitative, posthumanist, and decolonizing theorists.

Authors

• Petra Munro Hendry, Louisiana State University

• Roland W. Mitchell, Louisiana State University

• Paul William Eaton, Sam Houston State University