Hybridity at Play: Imagining New Methodological Futures for Critical Quantitative Inquiry

• In Event: Critical Methodological Innovations in Quantitative Research

Abstract

Scholars have recently called for merging the interests of cultural studies with critical quantitative inquiry, expanding the range of theories critical quantitative scholars can apply to their methodology. I analyzed the history of structural linguistics and deconstruction to provide a framework for understanding the methodological “moves” critical quantitative scholars make in their own work. Furthermore, I used Bhabha’s notion of hybridity to analyze how scholarship published in both QuantCrit and QuantQueer has treated statistics as a site of dynamic hybridity to resist and disrupt the hegemonic forces at work in quantitative methodology, undermining statistical authority to reconfigure the field towards a more liberatory praxis.

Author

• John Matthew Fredericks, Arizona State University