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ID2386304
AuthorsJennifer R Wolgemuth, Jennifer Wolgemuth (0000-0002-4124-2239, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA, corresponding author), P Rautio (0000-0002-1847-6221, University of Oulu), M Koro (0000-0003-0216-6007), Mirka Koro-Ljungberg (Arizona State University, Tempe, USA), Travis M Marn (University of South Florida, Tampa, USA), Travis Marn, Susan Nordstrom (0000-0002-5102-2053, University of Memphis, TN, USA), Adam Clark (0000-0003-0779-853X, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA), Adam T Clark (0000-0003-1759-6720)
Year2018
Volume24
Issue9
Pages712-719
Publication date2018-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800417735860
OpenAlexW2766572937
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited6

Inspired by work/think/play in qualitative research, we centered the idea of "play" in a qualitative research project to explore what proceeding from the idea of work/think/play might look like and accomplish. We pursued play in an experimental qualitative inquiry over dinner one night at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Our article centers on one work/think/play inquiry three of us conducted. Through a playful account of how play unfolded in our work/think/play inquiry that evening, we explore research play as generative, deadly, and censored in the context of neoliberalism and other terrors. We reflect on what (good) play does in qualitative research, what our work/think/play/birth/death/terror/qualitative/research accomplished, if anything. Maybe research play is vital, what keeps us fit to do critical qualitative research. Yet research play moves (well) beyond normative rules of much qualitative research. Is it worth the risk? Can we know? Even after

Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Generative grammar · Normative · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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Unique citing works4
Citations per year0,57
Citation span2019 - 2026 (8)
Citation velocitycurrent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 4
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