Foucault, Derrida, Deleuze, and Post-Qualitative Inquiry

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

As St.Pierre (2011) has explained, post qualitative inquiry begins and ends with poststructural philosophy, especially the work of Foucault, Derrida, and Deleuze, all of whom refused pre-existing research methods and methodologies and whose work is taken up in 21st century new material, new empirical, and posthuman approaches to inquiry. Poststructuralism’s decentering of epistemology and its immanentist ontology (its onto-epistemological arrangement) do not enable conventional humanist social science research methodologies, so how might one who thinks with poststructuralism inquire without those pre-existing processes, procedures, and methods? In this theoretical/methodological interactive symposium, presenters will discuss how poststructuralism and post qualitative inquiry might open up creative ways to inquire post methodology.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Foucault and Contemporary Theory in Education

Chair

• Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia

Papers

• Immanence in Poststructuralism and the Freedom of Not Knowing "What to Do" - Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia

• Agonistic Ontologies: Foucault's Genealogical Analytic, Ethical Self-Formation, and Post-Qualitative Inquiry - David L. Carlson, Arizona State University

• Foucault's History of the Present and Tracing the Philosophy of Thought - Marek Tesar, The University of Auckland

• The Dizzying Leap: Post-Qualitative Inquiry as a Transversal Stop-Motion Animation - Mel Kutner, University of Georgia - Athens

Discussant

• Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University