P Lather
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 5610 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | P Lather |
| NOMBRES | P |
| APELLIDO | Lather |
| FIRMA | LATHER P |
| AFILIACIONES | The Ohio State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5449-4972 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 53 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1957 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 16 |
Big Tent Talk
This article memorializes Norman Denzin on the occasion of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) in May 2024. Denzin’s work is overviewed in the context of its relationship to the author’s and the field at large with a focus on the founding and sustaining efforts of his scholarship, field-defining editorial contributions and ICQI
Norman Denzin tributes
Norman Denzin, friend, colleague, and mentor to many, many individuals, died on August 6.Norman did more
Coeducación y deportes colectivos. La participación de las alumnas en entredicho (Coeducation and team sports. Girls’ participation in question)
La llegada de la escolarizacin mixta ha puesto encima de la mesa los problemas para conseguir una coeducacin que atienda las necesidades de las alumnas. La Educacin Fsica, en este sentido, juega un papel determinante en la reproduccin o transformacin de los estereotipos de gnero. En su desarrollo prctico, los deportes colectivos son un contenido recurrente en las programaciones de aula de Educacin Fsica. Sin embargo, a pesar de su planteamiento m…
Updata
Updating my earlier engagement with post-neoliberalism, this article looks at the "after" of neoliberalism as a "post" neoliberalism under construction. It is addressed to our "discursive confusion" in the belief that effective political understanding and action might still be possible
What new sensibility, configuration or ‘dominant’ logic now for educational theory
What new sensibility, configuration or ‘dominant’ logic now for educational theory?." Educational Philosophy and Theory, 50(14), pp. 1602–1603
Validity, Qualitative
This entry tracks the shifts in how scientific knowledge is made credible in contemporary qualitative research. From standardized, regulatory practices to postepistemic discourses, it surveys new imaginaries that are situated and socially grounded. Continuing the work against the claims of scientism, it concludes with the validity‐to‐come given the “ontological turn.”
Dear Hillary
Alternative Ontologies of Number
Top Ten+ List
This article presents a 'top ten+ list' of lessons learned from the ontological turn. Across various terms and insistences, the article surveys theories of social change, the subject and agency, the canons constructed, the methodologies materialized, the 'more and other than reflexivity' researcher subjectivity endorsed, and the edges of both policy analysis and quantitative research that already instantiate such lessons. It concludes with a medi…
Justice! Ay! Ay! Ayotzinapa
Post-qualitative research
There are three aspects of this special issue that we as co-editors want to draw to your attention. The first is that we are, finally, “after” the decade of SRE able to ask what comes next for qual
Methodology-21
This paper asks "after what" and situates qualitative research in the present moment in the midst of various "deaths" and "returns." With a focus on fleshing out post-qualitative research, it first sketches efforts to discipline qualitative research via standards and rubrics as a part of neoliberal govenmentality and then elaborates what post-qualitative might mean via four exemplars. The first is from Sweden, a focus on relational entangled data…
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary services to the International Review of Qualitative Research, Volume 2
Learning From Our Differences
The dialogue re-presented in this article is intended to foster mutual engagement—and opportunity for learning—across different perspectives on research within the education research community. Participants in the dialogue each addressed the following questions: (1) What are the touchstones by which you judge quality or rigor in education research (for a single study, a set of studies, or a “field” or community of researchers in dialogue)? What i…
History Matters
Kneller Lecture, Aesa Getting Lost
This article probes how philosophical structures are immanent in empirical work and how philosophy might be understood when it is within the precincts of science. My interest is in both opening philosophy to disruption by a science that knows itself as inside history and opening science to the costs of its inability to tolerate the necessary lack in any determinism. Against the more typical focus on how philosophy provides the reason of science, …
Getting Lost
Getting LostFeminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science Patti Lather (bio) I chose my critics well. All of their comments are helpful. From Lenore Langsdorf, I get a clearer sense of what I did. From Rachel Falmagne, I get a sense of where I might go next in terms of questions that remain. And especially from Adele Clarke, perhaps most difficultly, I get a sense of what I might have done differently to make this book stronger. What I Think I Did …
Steinar Kvale
Tribute
New Wave Utilization Research
My interest over the past few years in books on the research/policy nexus—beginning with the National Academy’s Scientific Research in Education report (National Research Council, 2002) and moving through focuses on evidence, standards, and the relationship of research to policy—has been and continues to be based on my refusal to concede science to scientism. What science is, who determines what it is, the costs of a narrow scientism, and what a …
Tribute
Getting Lost
Validity, Qualitative
Validity is not just one of many issues in science but the crux of the issue: the claims of science to a certain privilege in terms of authoritative knowledge. How scientific knowledge is made credible is, hence, a longstanding issue. If one looks at validity as a social construction, one sees how the very calculus of credibility of what is deemed “good science,” the very determination of warrants of validity, has shifted across time, place, and …
Foucauldian scientificity
This essay calls for qualitative policy analysis that can engage strategically with the increased calls for the usefulness of social policy toward the improvement of educational practice. Michel Foucault’s concept of scientificity is used as a tool against the ‘repositivization’ at work in neo‐liberal times and its ‘rage for accountability’ where refusing to concede science to scientism appears to be a central task for those invested in qualitati…
Paradigm proliferation as a good thing to think with
This paper situates paradigm talk with its insistence on multiplicities and proliferations in tension with a resurgent positivism and governmental imposition of experimental design as the gold standard in research methods. Using the concept of 'coloring epistemologies' as an index of such tensions, the essay argues for proliferation as an ontological and historical claim. What all of this might mean in the teaching of research in education is dea…
Getting Smart
Fertile Obsession
P]ost-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge ‘after truth’... The postmodern world is without guarantees, without ‘method’... All we can do is invent. We must construct and exemplify the rhetorics of the future ... through ... endless stories. Like this one. Tomlinson (1989), pp.44,57
Issues of validity in openly ideological research
Post-qualitative research
There are three aspects of this special issue that we as co-editors want to draw to your attention. The first is that we are, finally, “after” the decade of SRE able to ask what comes next for qual
Getting Lost
Methodology-21
This paper asks "after what" and situates qualitative research in the present moment in the midst of various "deaths" and "returns." With a focus on fleshing out post-qualitative research, it first sketches efforts to discipline qualitative research via standards and rubrics as a part of neoliberal govenmentality and then elaborates what post-qualitative might mean via four exemplars. The first is from Sweden, a focus on relational entangled data…
Paradigm proliferation as a good thing to think with
This paper situates paradigm talk with its insistence on multiplicities and proliferations in tension with a resurgent positivism and governmental imposition of experimental design as the gold standard in research methods. Using the concept of 'coloring epistemologies' as an index of such tensions, the essay argues for proliferation as an ontological and historical claim. What all of this might mean in the teaching of research in education is dea…
Critical frames in educational research
1992). Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 87-99
This is Your Father's Paradigm
This talk was the Egon Guba Invited Lecture at the American Educational Research Association annual conference, April, 2003, Chicago. This article mobilizes three counterdiscourses to critique the federal government's incursion into legislating scientific method in the realm of educational research via the "evidence-based" movement of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Foucauldian policy analysis, feminism via Luce Irigaray, and postcolonialis…
Postbook
Feminist perspectives on empowering research methodologies
The Validity of Angels
This article fleshes out the intelligibility of validity after poststructuralism via an exploration of the instructive complications of a study of women living with HIV/AIDS. Rather than epistemological criteria of truth as correspondence, the article mobilizes categories of validity grounded in the crisis of representation as it sketches ephemeral practices of validity after poststructuralism within the context of a particular inquiry to generat…
Top Ten+ List
This article presents a 'top ten+ list' of lessons learned from the ontological turn. Across various terms and insistences, the article surveys theories of social change, the subject and agency, the canons constructed, the methodologies materialized, the 'more and other than reflexivity' researcher subjectivity endorsed, and the edges of both policy analysis and quantitative research that already instantiate such lessons. It concludes with a medi…
Drawing the line at angels
This paper addresses the usefulness of angels in breaking out of the Hegelian enclosure that typifies late 20-century critical thought and practice. Grounded in efforts to create a broadly accessible book about an interview study of women living with HIV AIDS, the paper sketches interpretive and textual strategies toward a less comfortable social science. After providing background to the study and an overview of the book's format, the paper pres…
Foucauldian scientificity
This essay calls for qualitative policy analysis that can engage strategically with the increased calls for the usefulness of social policy toward the improvement of educational practice. Michel Foucault’s concept of scientificity is used as a tool against the ‘repositivization’ at work in neo‐liberal times and its ‘rage for accountability’ where refusing to concede science to scientism appears to be a central task for those invested in qualitati…
Getting Lost
Getting LostFeminist Efforts toward a Double(d) Science Patti Lather (bio) I chose my critics well. All of their comments are helpful. From Lenore Langsdorf, I get a clearer sense of what I did. From Rachel Falmagne, I get a sense of where I might go next in terms of questions that remain. And especially from Adele Clarke, perhaps most difficultly, I get a sense of what I might have done differently to make this book stronger. What I Think I Did …
Scientific research in education
This article reviews the debate in the USA about quality in educational research which has underpinned particular approaches to educational research being mandated in federal legislation. It argues that the movement towards ‘evidence‐based policy and practice’ oversimplifies complex problems and is being used to warrant governmental incursion into legislating scientific method. It calls for critical readings of current policy and direct engagemen…
Learning From Our Differences
The dialogue re-presented in this article is intended to foster mutual engagement—and opportunity for learning—across different perspectives on research within the education research community. Participants in the dialogue each addressed the following questions: (1) What are the touchstones by which you judge quality or rigor in education research (for a single study, a set of studies, or a “field” or community of researchers in dialogue)? What i…
Kneller Lecture, Aesa Getting Lost
This article probes how philosophical structures are immanent in empirical work and how philosophy might be understood when it is within the precincts of science. My interest is in both opening philosophy to disruption by a science that knows itself as inside history and opening science to the costs of its inability to tolerate the necessary lack in any determinism. Against the more typical focus on how philosophy provides the reason of science, …
Alternative Ontologies of Number
New Wave Utilization Research
My interest over the past few years in books on the research/policy nexus—beginning with the National Academy’s Scientific Research in Education report (National Research Council, 2002) and moving through focuses on evidence, standards, and the relationship of research to policy—has been and continues to be based on my refusal to concede science to scientism. What science is, who determines what it is, the costs of a narrow scientism, and what a …
Applied Derrida
(2003). Applied Derrida: (Mis)Reading the work of mourning in educational research. Educational Philosophy and Theory: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 257-270
Against empathy voice and authenticity
This paper asks what it is to claim empathy, voice and authenticity as the grounds of feminist research. It explores representational practices that refuse such grounds by residing in both situated and constantly changing intersections of interpretation, interruption and mutuality. The typical investments and categories of ethnography are challenged so as to put under theoretic pressure the claims of scientificity. Grounded in a study of women li…
This issue
Doing participatory research
Critical Theory, Curricular Transformation and Feminist Mainstreaming
This paper examines critical theory, especially the work of Antonio Gramsci, in relation to feminist curricular change efforts in teacher education. It is contended that women's studies is potentially a prime example of curriculum as counter-hegemonic force. Critical theory is taken to task for the male-centeredness of its search for historical actors. The possibilities for fundamental social change that open up when we put women at the center of…
Issues of validity in openly ideological research
Research as Praxis
The author, who is concerned with the methodological implications of critical theory, explores issues in the developing area of emancipatory research. She defines the concept of "research as praxis," examines it in the context of social science research, and discusses examples of empirical research designed to advance emancipatory knowledge. The primary objective of this essay is to help researchers involve the researched in a democratized proces…
Feminist perspectives on empowering research methodologies
Doing participatory research
Postmodernism and the human sciences
Getting Smart
Critical frames in educational research
1992). Critical frames in educational research: Feminist and post‐structural perspectives. Theory Into Practice: Vol. 31, Qualitative Issues in Educational Research, pp. 87-99
After the Epilogue and Coda
Fertile Obsession
P]ost-modernism involves the development of new rhetorics of science, new stories of knowledge ‘after truth’... The postmodern world is without guarantees, without ‘method’... All we can do is invent. We must construct and exemplify the rhetorics of the future ... through ... endless stories. Like this one. Tomlinson (1989), pp.44,57
Dada Practice
Association (AERA) annual conference where we will present, under Division B auspices, a session entitled Building Feminist Community: Reviewing and Being Reviewed. It is in that spirit that I respond to Stephanie Kirkwood Walker's review of Getting Smart. While I will focus on her review of my book, I will also be responding to other reviewers, some, I might add, much more perturbed by me than Walker. Of great curiosity to me is that my intended…
Canonical Gestures
Getting Smart
The Validity of Angels
This article fleshes out the intelligibility of validity after poststructuralism via an exploration of the instructive complications of a study of women living with HIV/AIDS. Rather than epistemological criteria of truth as correspondence, the article mobilizes categories of validity grounded in the crisis of representation as it sketches ephemeral practices of validity after poststructuralism within the context of a particular inquiry to generat…
Telling data
The following data excerpt is from a book‐length, interview study of 25 women in HIV/AIDS support groups. The book Troubling Angels: Women Living With HIV/AIDS by Patti Lather and Chris Smithies has, for now, been desktop published because some of the women fear they will be gone before the book could be published by a major press. Furthermore, the women want the book published as what they call a “K‐Mart” book, a trade book that is widely access…
This issue
Drawing the line at angels
This paper addresses the usefulness of angels in breaking out of the Hegelian enclosure that typifies late 20-century critical thought and practice. Grounded in efforts to create a broadly accessible book about an interview study of women living with HIV AIDS, the paper sketches interpretive and textual strategies toward a less comfortable social science. After providing background to the study and an overview of the book's format, the paper pres…
Critical Pedagogy and Its Complicities
Reading the image of Rigoberta Menchu
This essay frames issues of historical truth, interpretation, and translation in reading I, Rigoberta Manchu in terms of the analysis of qualitative data. Using Walter Benjamin's work on translation and historiography, posited lessons include: to read for difference rather than the same; to focus on what is becoming in the data; to probe the price people pay to tell the truth about themselves; to attend to how stories are told; and to situate int…
Against empathy voice and authenticity
This paper asks what it is to claim empathy, voice and authenticity as the grounds of feminist research. It explores representational practices that refuse such grounds by residing in both situated and constantly changing intersections of interpretation, interruption and mutuality. The typical investments and categories of ethnography are challenged so as to put under theoretic pressure the claims of scientificity. Grounded in a study of women li…
Angels and Research
A Psychoanalysis We Can Bear to Learn from
Postmodernism, Post-structuralism and Post(Critical) Ethnography
Postbook
The Social Construction of Validity
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