Writing Together-Apart: Navigating the Post-Qualitative, New Materialist, and Critical Posthumanist Research Across Disciplines

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

To address this year’s conference theme, it is necessary to disrupt the role of qualitative research itself and our complicity as educational researchers in the four intra-connected pandemics: the COVID-19 pandemic, racism, the economic and climate crises. These pandemics demand a paradigm shift that reconfigures humans’ relationality in dominant research approaches and practices. This urgent unsettling of anthropocentrism, human exceptionalism and settler colonialism characterises postqualitative, new materialist and critical posthumanist research. However, its ontology, epistemology and ethics are philosophically complex and require pedagogically sophisticated and transmodal support. Each presenter of this symposium will show how this political work is enabled through their collaborative contributions - a ‘writing together-apart’ - to a new book series with its own website.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Karin Saskia Murris, University of Oulu

Papers

• Paradoxical Potentialities: Doing Knowledge, Impact, Engagement, and Activism Differently in the Posthumanist-Humanist University - Carol A. Taylor, The University of Bath; Jocey Quinn, University of Plymouth

• What Paradigmatic Perspectives Make Possible: Considerations for Pedagogies and the Doing of (Post-)Qualitative Inquiry - Candace R. Kuby, University of Missouri

• Rendering Each Other Capable: Doing Response-able Research Responsibly - Vivienne Grace Bozalek, University of the Western Cape

• The Time Dimension of Qualitative Research for the Anthropocene - David R Cole, Western Sydney University; Mehri Mirzaeirafe, University of North Texas

• Reanimating Video in Research by Thinking Cinematically: Slowing Down and Speeding Up - Soern Finn Menning, University of Agder; Karin Saskia Murris, University of Oulu