Writing as Collective Inquiry: New Possibilities of Qualitative Research as Transnational Relational Flows

• In Event: Thursday Roundtable Session 9:00 am
  In Roundtable Session: Collective Journeys in Qualitative Writing and Storying (Table 8)

Abstract

How can we take transnationality as a space of in-betweenness to generate new possibilities, moving beyond geographically bounded spans between countries? Drawing from Anzaldúa’s ideas on transformative writing of the self and decolonizing practice in qualitative research, five authors explore the fluid territories of “who I am” and “who we are” through collective writing as a mode of inquiry. We present how the emergent process of collaborative writing has led us to search decoloniality through writing with relationality, realizing our possible new beings and positionalities in a writing community. “Writing as collective inquiry” advances transnational aspects to qualitative inquiry by creating spaces to resist the Western, Euro-centric notion of human subjectivity through our collaborative quest for knowledge, self-actualization, and liberation.

Authors

• Sun Young Lee, Wichita State University

• Minhye Son, California State University - Dominguez Hills

• Taeyeon Kim, University of Nebraska - Lincoln

• Jin Kyeong Jung, Texas Tech University

• Soo Bin Jang, University of Delaware