30.065 - Productive Methodological Tensions: Intervening Through Creativity, Collaboration, and Critique

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Recent turns toward postqualitative, posthumanist, and new materialist research intervene in the conventional processes of research methodology. These turns have created spaces of tension – many of which have yet to be examined. In this presentation, a group of qualitative scholars responds by exploring how creativity, collaboration, and criticality might intervene in traditional methodological practice. We explore what is lost, what is gained, and what becomes possible in imaginative interventions. We envision how such interventions might look or sound. And, in the process, we produce minor gestures, or unanticipated temporalities, acts of dissonance, and variations on experience (Manning, 2016). Alongside Deleuze, Latour, Manning, Massumi, and others, we work within generative tensions of what qualitative methodology might do, produce, and become.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University

Papers

• Paradoxical Resistance of Creative Methodologies - Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University

• Generative Texts and Collaborative Creativity - Sarah Bridges-Rhoads, Georgia State University; Jessica Van Cleave, Mars Hill University

• Affirming and Debunking? Intervening Through, and in, Critique - Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Stuttering Toward Method: The Challenge of Sound to Everyday Practice - Walter S. Gershon, Kent State University

• Process Photography: How Do Images Produce? - Jasmine Ulmer, Wayne State University

Discussant

• Harry Torrance, Manchester Metropolitan University