Writing a Post-Qualitative Literature Review: A Tale of Unraveling, a Tale of Becoming

• In Event: Tales and Texts: Approaches to Qualitative Work

Abstract

Literature review is a foundational component of research and as an emerging scholar, my aim was to review the field of postqualitative inquiry. Postqualitative inquiry questions the taken for granted concepts of subject, data, methods, representation and knowledge production. Thus we also need to question the concept of a literature review. This conceptual paper addresses the issue through the problematization and simultaneous enactment of a literature review. What postqualitative inquiry makes possible is an unravelling and a becoming. Writing a literature review is no longer about synthesizing ideas to provide a sedimentation of knowledge but the creation of openings and transformations so that new possibilities might emerge.

Author

• Marina Basu, Arizona State University - Tempe