69.049 - Critical Posthumanism and Diffractive Post-Qualitative Methodologies

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session focuses on the contributions that critical posthumanism can make to post-qualitative methodologies. The papers draw particularly on the work of Haraway and Barad and their contributions to a diffractive methodology, as well as Deleuze and Guattari’s schizoanalysis which can be regarded as contributing to a radical diffractive and non-anthropocentric methodology. The papers in the session cover different aspects of a diffractive methodology - putting it into conversation with reflection, critique, schizoanalysis, and reconfiguration of the educator as a pregnant stingray to disrupt notions of difference and binaries. The papers also explore the practical implications of using a diffractive methodology for pedagogy and educational research in different contexts, for example in the health sciences.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Western Ontario

Papers

• Diffraction or Reflection? Methodological Implications for Educational Research - Vivienne Grace Bozalek, University of the Western Cape

• Diffractive Methodology and Critique in Educational Research - Dirk Postma

• Reconfiguring the Educator as Pregnant Stingray: Reading Three Images Diffractively Through One Another - Karin Saskia Murris, University of Cape Town

• A Schizoanalytical Pedagogical Praxis - Delphi Carstens

• Diffracting Students' Reflective Commentaries in Obstetrics - Veronica Ann Mitchell, University of the Western Cape

Discussant

• Denise Hodgins, University of Victoria