Working Through Methodologies Without a Proper Name

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

It is possible that the normative methodologies to which many qualitative scholars prescribe might be (creatively) lost, for these methodologies have misplaced their original inscriptions and transparent classifications. Put differently, they have lost their proper name (see Derrida, 1997). In this presentation, we explore what happens when a group of qualitative researchers work through diverse methodologies without a proper name. Papers explore language games, multimedia, and philosophy before mourning qualitative research as an unrepeatable event. Questions arise regarding how to write, play, live, dance, grieve, and inquire in the absence of labels and methodological “I”s. In the process, we celebrate, lament, and engage methodologies without proper names as we move toward entanglements that are more than human, recognizable, and nameable.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University

Papers

• Games and Methodological Obsessions With Meaning - Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University

• #Writingdigitalspace #Hypermodalinquiry - Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University

• (Un/named) Philosophy as a Method - Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland

• The Paradox of Mourning Qualitative Research - Jessica Van Cleave, Mars Hill University; Sarah Bridges-Rhoads, Georgia State University; Travis Marn, University of South Florida; Csaba Osvath, University of South Florida; Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, University of South Florida

Discussant

• Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Appalachian State University