52.084-7 - Putting the Work to Work: Getting Smart, Messy, and Lost With the Work of Patti Lather

• In Event: 52.084 - Roundtable Session 20

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Feminist methodologist Patti Lather has worked to trouble the contours and restraints of authoritarian qualitative methodologies across more than three decades of generative scholarship. From her classic conceptualization of research as praxis (1986) to recent post-qualitative research materialist theorizing that moves beyond data (2013) as a source or signal of knowing, Lather’s work has raised productive questions about the imaginaries and processes animating qualitative inquiry and the limits of any knowledge claims. This symposium of four feminist methodologists and former students, with Lather as discussant, revisit, circle around, and trouble Lather’s work in the interests of moving messily toward the not-yet-written future of feminist educational research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Patti A. Lather, The Ohio State University

Papers

• Tracing, Tracking, and Troubling Readings of Lather - Lucy E. Bailey, Oklahoma State University

• Productive Disorientations - Sara M. Childers, Independent Scholar

• What Does Data Matter? Putting the Work to Work in Policy Futurities - Wanda Pillow, University of Utah

• Power of the Preposition: Researching With/for/About Young Women of Color - Lisa Weems, Miami University

Discussant

• Patti A. Lather, The Ohio State University