Methodological Performativity: Doing and Undoing Methodology

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Abstract

Building on Nordstrom & Happel-Parkins' (2016) concept of methodological drag, this paper considers concepts of performativity explored by Butler in their work on gender performativity to examine the value that a concept of methodological performativity may have for methodologists with particular attention to the questions that we might ask from the perspective of methodological performativity. By subverting methodological norms and specific methodological regimes, we can explore opportunities to be more creative about methodology and to grow methodology in new directions. Methodological performativity incites us to be mindful of how practices and acts reinforce ways of doing methodology. It asks us to consider how we are doing and undoing methodology and perhaps to further explore methodological undoing.

Author

• Matthew Weirick Johnson, University of South Florida