Zine-making as Slow Scholarship: A Critical Qualitative Intervention

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 3:45 pm - Gold 3
  In Roundtable Session: Story, Trace, and Resistance: Arts-Based and Culturally Rooted Interventions in Qualitative Research

Abstract

Zines, self-published works that combine collage, art, and nontraditional writing, can be a critical qualitative intervention against the neoliberal academy. In this paper I highlight the ways in which zine-making allows researchers to move beyond the qualitative-quanitative binary and into deeper levels of methodological engagement and theoretical articulation. I provide practical examples of how zines can be used to collect and display qualitative data, and explore how the process of zine-making as slow scholarship can be a form of resistance to the strictures of higher education.

Author

• Sharla Berry, California State University - Long Beach