Triangulation and Disruption: Critical Theory as Analytic Method in Qualitative Inquiry

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Abstract

In this paper, we reflect on our experiences as a writing team who apply critical theories to analyses of popular culture as a process to deconstruct and transform unjust systems and practices within education. Drawing on the method of writing as inquiry, we review the various tensions, successes, and hesitations encountered while conducting two critically oriented theoretical analyses. In the first section of this paper, we describe the process of developing a critical theoretical analysis, while in the second, we share our reflections on the process. Presenting vignettes, memos, abandoned, and completed analyses, we provoke qualitative inquirers to consider how they can use critical theory, popular culture, and qualitative analysis to engage a pluriverse of perspectives, researching for social change.

Authors

• Lorien S Jordan, University of South Florida
  Presenting Author

• Kadesha Treco, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
  Presenting Author

• Rachel Piontak, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville
  Presenting Author

• Stefanie McKoy, University of Arkansas - Fayetteville
  Presenting Author

• Dewey Dykes IV, University of Arkansas
  Non-Presenting Author