About the Book
This book explores the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research. The contributors, based in Australia, Canada, the UK and USA, use theory and method to disrupt established traditions and create new and alternative possibilities for research in identity, agency, power, social justice, space, materiality, and other transformations. Using examples of recent and highly innovative research practices which meaningfully challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in education and social science, the editors and contributors open new ground for other ways of thinking about doing research in these fields. Major theoretical perspectives explored and applied include: posthumanism, poststructuralism, feminist theory, ecofeminism, new materialism, SF, and critical theory and the theorists drawn on include: Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Rosie Braidotti, Anna Tsing and Stacy Alaimo.
Table of Contents:
Series Preface, Mark Murphy
Foreword, Julianne Moss
1. The Vitality of Theory in Research Innovation, Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas and Robin Bellingham
Part I: Disruption, Subjectivity and Agency
2. Postproductive Methods: Researching Modes of Relationality and Affect Worlds through Participatory Video with Youth, Laura Trafí-Prats and Rachel Fendler
3. Experimental Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Disrupting Methodologies, Resisting Subjects, Travis M. Marn and Jennifer R. Wolgemuth
4. Troubling Binaries: Gendering Research in Environmental Education, Catherine Hart and Annette Gough
5. The Shame of Participation: Rethinking the Ontology of Participation with a Stutter, Eve Mayes
Part II: Frontiers: Possibility, Timespace and Materiality
6. Posthumanist Poetics and the Transcorporeal, Hypercorporeal Chronotope, Robin Bellingham
7. Who is in My Office and Which Century/ies Are We In? A Pedagogical Encounter, Mary Dixon
8. Disturbance and Intensive Methodology in Capitalist Ruins, Jesse Bazzul
9. Transversalities in Education Research: Using Heterotopias to Theorize Spaces of Crises and Deviation, Marguerite Jones and Jennifer Charteris
Part III: Entanglements and Innovations: Method and Theory
10. Swarms and Murmurations, Matthew Thomas
11. Post-Anthropocene Imaginings: Speculative thought, Diffractive Play and Women on the Edge of Time, Chessa Adsit-Morris and Noel Gough
12. Replete sensations of the Refrain: Sound, Action and Materiality in Agentic Posthuman Assemblages, Jennifer Charteris and Marguerite Jones
Index
About the Author :
Matthew Krehl Edward Thomas is Senior Lecturer in Education at Deakin University, Australia.
Robin Bellingham is Lecturer in Education, Pedagogy and Curriculum at Deakin University, Australia.
Review :
This important new collection has that ‘forward tilt’ described by the editors, of elaborating new concepts and new possibilities for thought and action, while being anchored in the ethics and the affects of specific research projects and encounters. It is a lively and serious contribution to a field that, thankfully, still has no fixed boundaries.
Matthew Thomas and Robin Bellingham have assembled a book we need in this moment, one that moves beyond the pronouncements of post-qualitative, posthumanist, and agential realism as departures from what was and takes the step of materially exploring what social inquiry can be. It does so with an honesty about the slippages, challenges, and struggles of putting new theory to work that will stimulate great conversations in methodology classes and conferences for years to come.
This provoking volume is one of the Bloomsbury Social Theory and Methodology in Education Research Series…The book provides an opportunity to question assumptions upon which research and society are built… The editors and authors are to be congratulated for developing and presenting a book that takes us to see research with different eyes, to imagine new forms and terms, to be intrigued by the intersecting of humanity with the natural world, and to envisage further changes that are moving into the world of Artificial Intelligence.
