Methodological Intimacy and “Silence in Postqualitative Inquiry”

• In Event: Posthumanism, Postmodernism, and Philosophy

Abstract

Methodological intimacy could be seen as one sustaining force of longitudinal and engaged scholarship including the affective, caring, and close encounters with methods and methodological practices. Methodological intimacy is more than methodological attentiveness and methods expertise. These kinds of methodological processes operate as an activating relational event; an event which engages, stimulates, and promotes critical and creative thinking-doing. Furthermore, the affective and event-based forces of methodological intimacy call for continuous presence, silent co-living, vulnerability, openness for difference, willingness to speculate and practice creativity, in the context of qualitative inquiry. In this presentation, we discuss intimacy and silence, and exemplify the role and necessity of methodological intimacy in qualitative inquiry processes.

Authors

• Mirka E. Koro, Arizona State University

• Sarah Maree Crinall, Southern Cross University

• Daria Smirnova, University of South Florida

• Jennifer Charteris, University of New England - Australia

• Amalie Strange, Arizona State University

• Angela Molloy Murphy, University of Melbourne