Images of Reason and Inference in Qualitative Research: Posthumanist Innovations

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 23

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

The session brings together four scholars whose posthuman and more-than-human inquiries have led them to question not just the types of data they are using, but the underlying images of inference, evidence, and conclusions around which social inquiry is usually organized. The focus of the papers are divergent, ranging from a discussion of quantum decision making, to the way Karen Barad’s agential realism requires a reconsideration of basic logical principles, to a rhizomatic analysis of Blackness as a process of becoming, to the methodological challenges that arise when attempting to Indigenize research on teaching. Within this diversity, there is a common pattern—a reconsideration of the ontology of inquiry and images of reason that inform qualitative research.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Sara Childers, The University of Ohio

Papers

• The Quantum Mind: Alternative Ways of Reasoning With Uncertainty - Elizabeth De Freitas, Adelphi University

• Agency and Analysis: Agential Realism's Challenge to the Logic of Inference in Social Inquiry - Jerry L. Rosiek, University of Oregon

• Deleuze, Guattari, and Blackness: Applying Rhizomatic Analysis to the Study of Blackness - Awad Ibrahim, University of Ottawa

• Indigenizing Evidence and Inference in Pursuit of Education for Being - Jimmy Snyder, University of Oregon

Discussant

• Jennifer Dawn Adams, University of Calgary