Speculative "Methods" and Scenarios for Repressive Times

• In Event: Care, Emotion, and Reflexivity in Qualitative Research

Abstract

In this conceptual paper we envision how ‘methods’ as speculative scenarios might be used in qualitative research to counter repressive times and respond to the health, cultural, and economical crisis and growing ecological despair in responsible ways. We wonder how choices of methodological imagination, anticipation, relationality, and displacement might address suffering, and preventable tragedy. These moves, in turn, could lead to collective responsibility, larger humanitarian efficacy and deeper ecological involvement. In addition, speculative scenarios might focus on that which is potential, possible and ethical, revisioning the assumed and the expected of social strata and collective experiences while grounding methodological work into the problematic politics and political objects of the present

Authors

• Tim Wells, Arizona State University

• Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University

• Jorge Sandoval, Arizona State University

• Anani M Vasquez, Arizona State University