Alecia Youngblood Jackson
Biographic Data
| ID | 109409 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alecia Youngblood Jackson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alecia Youngblood |
| FAMILY NAME | Jackson |
| SIGNATURE | JACKSON A Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Appalachian State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5016-6752 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 875 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 43 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Thinking like a feminist and reading with love
In this paper, we expand the Foucauldian question of what is thinking doing? We approach the question in the context of reading as an entirely ontological enterprise. Aligned with the special issue theme of reading as a "long preparation," and prompted by Deleuze's discussion of "reading with love," we link the two to present how reading with love has been enacted in our work, both collective and individual, as transformative and intensive. The f…
Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry
Cascade questioning is offered as a manner of inquiring into / co-enabling a research phenomenon. I follow and elaborate an agential realist ontology as formulated by Karen Barad (2007) considering questions as worlding practices (instead of subject-object relations between the knower and that which is to be known). Cascade questioning is about tracing entanglements all the while that this activity is also the production – or enabling - of entang…
Inquiry as Unthought: The Emergence of Thinking Otherwise
This article is derived from a webinar series conversation titled “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry,” co-hosted by Candace R. Kuby and Viv Bozalek. This article is based on a conversation that the authors had, facilitated by Candace Kuby, on November 19, 2020
Foucault
In the middle of sensing relations between the performative accounts of Cassandra and Sera and encounters of negotiating power relations, the authors became attentive to Foucault’s theory about the relation between power and knowledge: not that one is the other (“knowledge is power”), but how they express one another. Everybody knows that the academy is an institutional structure, yet Foucault’s concepts engender different thought about power (th…
Why Butler?
Critique is understood as an interrogation of the terms by which life is constrained in order to open up the possibility for different modes of living; in other words, not to celebrate difference as such but to establish more inclusive conditions for sheltering and maintaining life that resists models of assimilation. Performativity explores (and exposes) how gender identities get done (and undone) as iterative and citational practices within dis…
Why Foucault?
In the context of an inquiry, the purpose of a power/knowledge reading is to explain how the cultural and material practices of Cassandra and Sera, as first-generation women faculty, combine power and knowledge to produce their subjectivities. Cassandra’s and Sera’s practices and the production of their subjectivity as they negotiated their entry in higher education are effects of a network of social, material, cultural, and power relations withi…
Why Barad?
Barad calls into question the givenness of previously uncontested categories of “humans and nonhumans” and the implications for a thinking with that seeks not representation, but relationality. While much of what has been written under the guise of material feminism comes from the philosophy of science, feminist scholars and feminist materialists are theorizing agency as distributed in the social world. Barad’s mobilization of apparatus is inform…
Spivak
Spivak demands a rethinking of center/margin politics as a binary, oppositional structure and for whom those spaces are privileged. She does so by relying on Foucault’s theories to position the teaching machine (the university) as a vehicle of power/knowledge that seeks to locate and define what counts as “authentic” inhabitants of the margin. Reading and thinking Cassandra’s performative account with both Foucault and Spivak, readers in the chap…
Barad
The work of Karen Barad incites becoming-questions as to how intra-actions of bodies (human, nonhuman, and more than human) produce subjectivities and performative enactments not previously thought. The authors put thought in motion in Chapter 6 with Barad’s agential realism alongside the material ↔ discursive intra-actions of suits and offices and bodies. Through the authors’ plugging in, the reader will encounter enactments of knowing in being …
Plugging one text into another
In this opening chapter, new to the second edition, the authors describe their plugging in technique, one they enact as a constant, continuous doing. Their aim is to capture and convey the movement of plugging in as readers encounter this doing in the chapters that follow. They situate the book itself not as a telling, but a doing, an enactment of this plugging in that keeps thought on the move. An “overview” of each of the thresholding chapters …
Ontological writing
In the final chapter, the authors position this second edition as a between-book and discuss it as an ontological becoming. Doing so, they take up affective dimensions of thinking with in this new concluding chapter. Relying on concepts from Massumi, Manning, Deleuze and Guattari, Stengers, and Whitehead, the authors offer a glimpse into what it is to unleash worldings and becomings in ontological writing. The chapter concludes by inviting reader…
Butler
Judith Butler’s theory of performativity brings attention to undoing normative categories that place rigid structures on how people live out their lives. Butler’s theory, relying on linguistic action rather than on the theatrical, transforms thought about how gender identities get done (and undone) as a reiterative and citational practice within discourse, power relations, historical experiences, cultural practices, and material conditions. Readi…
Deleuze and Guattari
For Deleuze and Guattari, desire is about production (in a similar way that Foucault’s power is productive, and that Butler’s subject is produced). Desire’s production is active, becoming, transformative. It is produced out of a multiplicity of forces that form the assemblage. Making room for encounters in the unthought, relations are sensed between Deleuze and Guattari’s desire and the performative accounts of Cassandra and Sera. Desire is read …
Why Spivak?
Eagleton is gesturing toward Gayatri Spivak, whose deconstructive project is a critique of postcolonialism. Spivak goes on to write that what are being reclaimed are “regulative political concepts” that have been inherited from Western Europe; thus, she rejects postcolonialism as an adequate referent for the times because decolonization has not happened. In some feminist literature (e.g., bell hooks, Audre Lorde), the margin is positioned as a ra…
Derrida
In this chapter, the authors plug in the performative accounts with Derrida, attentive to the deconstructive moment – the jarring and excessive nature of events that do not fit neatly into categories, nor capture an experience, but that rupture structures and received notions of the academy. Staying with the event, and rereading the performative accounts, readers will continually encounter the Black, white, working-class, and gendered bodies of S…
Why Deleuze and Guattari?
One of the hallmarks of the writing of Deleuze and Guattari is their creation of a new language. They stretch language and its possibilities by intentionally using words to connote something other than what the people ordinarily take them to mean, as a way to interrupt and rupture ways of thinking. While Derrida had much to say to the reader about the absent present, the people began to brush up against the limits of methodological thinking about…
Why Derrida?
Deconstruction in a nutshell: “the tension between memory, fidelity, the preservation of something that has been given to the reader, and, at the same time, heterogeneity, something absolutely new, and a break.” While Derrida’s early naming of deconstruction in of Grammatology was concerned with the problem of language and the undoing of texts, he went on in future years to demonstrate that deconstruction is not just about unsettling texts, but c…
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Second Edition demonstrates how to enact various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry, effectively opening up the process of thought in qualitative studies. Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research functions as a refusal of pregiven method, intensifying creativity, experimentation, and newness. Readers are invited into the threshold of theory to traverse philosophers and their concepts, …
Possibles and Post Qualitative Inquiry
St. Pierre describes post qualitative inquiry as something that “must be created, invented anew each time” and as residing on an ontological plane of possibles. What we present below are a series of possibles
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
Voice in the Agentic Assemblage
This chapter explains Jane Bennett's concept of the agentic assemblage to position the discursive artifacts of qualitative inquiry as always already material and the material as an always already discursive construction. It provides positing voice in qualitative educational research as a thing that is entangled with other things in an assemblage that acts with an agential force. Voice as present, stable, authentic, and self-reflective such a voic…
Thinking Without Method
The author relies on Deleuze's critique of the dogmatic image of thought to produce the conditions under which new concepts are created. Putting together a network of concepts such as the outside, the encounter, and force, the author invents thinking without method, an emergent, fragmented strategy that forms the outside of stratified qualitative research methods. The author draws upon some of her previous work to experiment with a new starting p…
Thinking with an Agentic Assemblage in Posthuman Inquiry
During the autumn of 2014, a 50-pound standard-issue dormitory mattress made its way across various spaces on the campus of Columbia University in New York. At times, the dark blue foam mattress was carried by one woman, Emma Sulkowicz — a senior visual arts major at Columbia. At other times, Sulkowicz was joined by others on campus (friends and strangers) in a collective carry to share the burden of movement. These solitary and participatory car…
Potentializing a Deleuzian Refrain
The author works Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the refrain to craft an affective, material assemblage of the lactating body
Calls of/to the Ordinary
Ordinary Affects tells stories of everyday happenings and practices, a collage of the mundane brought to life in brief tales told in the third person. Yet the text is other—more—than this. In one scene the book's protagonist is alone at a table in a café in a West Texas town and she—“I call myself ‘she’... as a point of contact”1—notices a biker couple entering. They limp. They sit, talking intently. As the solitary diner–writer leaves, she walks…
Plugging One Text Into Another: Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research
In this article, the authors describe the work of their recently published book, Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives. The purpose of this article is to show how they use theory to think with their data (and use data to think with theory) in order to accomplish a reading of data that is both within and against interpretivism. The authors put to use a concept picked up from Deleuze and Guattari to…
Qualitative Data Analysis After Coding
New Empiricisms and New Materialisms: Conditions for New Inquiry
This article, which introduces this special issue on new empiricisms and new materialisms, focuses on two of the many conditions that enable this new work: first, an ethical imperative to rethink the nature of being to refuse the devastating dividing practices of the dogmatic Cartesian image of thought and, second, a heightened curiosity and accompanying experimentation in the becoming of existence. The article includes a brief description of how…
"Complicating Voice in a Refusal to "Let Participants Speak for Themselves
In this article, the authors respond to the editors' call to challenge simplistic and mechanistic approaches to qualitative research that preclude dense and multilayered treatment of data. The editors assert that such practices can lead to (over)simplified knowledge claims, something especially risky when participant "voice" is presented as an expression of "experience" devoid of context. The authors approach the methodological project of a simpl…
Thinking Without Method
The author relies on Deleuze's critique of the dogmatic image of thought to produce the conditions under which new concepts are created. Putting together a network of concepts such as the outside, the encounter, and force, the author invents thinking without method, an emergent, fragmented strategy that forms the outside of stratified qualitative research methods. The author draws upon some of her previous work to experiment with a new starting p…
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Second Edition demonstrates how to enact various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry, effectively opening up the process of thought in qualitative studies. Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research functions as a refusal of pregiven method, intensifying creativity, experimentation, and newness. Readers are invited into the threshold of theory to traverse philosophers and their concepts, …
Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions in Qualitative Research
Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, What does it mean to work the limits of voice? from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice. The thought-provoking book will shift qualitative inquir…
Posthumanist data analysis of mangling practices
In this paper, I argue against traditional coding in interpretive data analysis and offer a posthumanist alternative that offers qualitative researchers a new way to create ontological becomings in their reading of data. I begin with an overview of how humanism enables us to think qualitative data analysis as coding, and then counter human-centered inquiry with a description of Pickering’s mangle and its potential as a both a figuration and a dif…
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how to use various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry; effectively opening up the process of data analysis in qualitative research. It uses a common data set and utilizes various theoretical perspectives
Performativity Identified
Poststructural feminist notions of subjectivity point to a notion of the "self" that is fluid, contradictory, and produced in relationships with others and everyday practices. These social structures and processes that shape subjectivity are situated within discursive fields where language, power relations, and discourses exist, intersect, and construct competing ways of giving meaning to and constructing subjectivity. This article explicates Jud…
Tensions in Learning to Teach: Accommodation and the Development of a Teaching Identity
This article analyzes how Sharon, a student teacher, negotiated the different conceptions of teaching that provided the expectations for good instruction in her university and the site of her student teaching and how her effort to reconcile the different belief systems affected her identity as a teacher. The key settings of Sharon's experience were the university program, her third-grade class at Harding Elementary, and her first teaching job. Du…
Deleuze and the girl
In this article, I seek to represent something that must be lived. It feels impossible to represent that which is described by Deleuze and Guattari as movement that is simultaneous, asymmetrical, instantaneous, unfinalized, zig‐zag. This movement is Deleuze and Guattari's concept of difference, that which they name becoming. To put this concept of becoming to work, I use three texts. One is chapter 10 of A Thousand Plateaus, the second is Brian M…
Experience and “I” in Autoethnography: A Deconstruction
The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the “researcher as subject” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000) imperative in authoethnography in order to confront the limits of a reliance on experience and a narrative voice in the genre. We use poststructural theories of experience and language (i.e., voice) to analyze the assumptions of each and how these constructs are employed in autoethnography. We argue that in an attempt to engage the crises of representa…
Rhizovocality
In this conceptual paper, the author offers a rethinking of the concept of voice in qualitative research informed by feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural theories. Using Deleuze & Guattari's (1987) figuration of the rhizome, the irruptions of voice in feminist and postfoundational qualitative research are mapped to invent a concept of voice, rhizovocality, that signifies voice as excessive and transgressive yet interconnected. This mapping …
In the Threshold: Writing Between-the-Two
In this paper, we describe our encounters in and passes through the figuration of the threshold as producing writing between-the-two: or, loss of the individual subject. We describe how in the threshold, we meet in that in-between space, a space of shared deterritorialization in which we constitute one another. Also, we describe writing between-the-two in the threshold as a site of embodiment, of affect. In thinking of how to articulate our way o…
Philosophy of education in a new key: Future of philosophy of education
What is the future of Philosophy of education? Or as many of scholars and thinkers in this final ‘future-focused’ collective piece from the Philosophy of Education in a New Key Series put it, what are the futures—plural and multiple—of the intersections of ‘philosophy’ and ‘education?’ What is ‘Philosophy’; and what is ‘Education’, and what role may ‘enquiry’ play? Is the future of education and philosophy embracing—or at least taking seriously—a…
An Ontology of a Backflip
I use the Deleuze and Guattari geo-philosophical 'Plateau 11. 1837: Of the Refrain' to map the conditions of the emergence of a particular territorial refrain: a backflip. Using a research encounter that involved a cheerleading dance, I position the backflip as a refrain that draws from the rhythms of various milieus to mark a territory. I follow the backflip along a line of flight to describe its ontological force of creation and newness
Spaces of Power/Knowledge: A Foucauldian Methodology for Qualitative Inquiry
In this paper, I argue for a consideration of Foucault's power/knowledge doublet as a spatial, analytic methodology for the use of studying the productive effects of practices in education. A spatial reading involves disentangling the complex production of subjectivity as an effect of power/knowledge relations and practices. A power/knowledge reading of the multiple effects of social, cultural, and material practices within relations of power/kno…
Power and pleasure in ethnographic home-work: Producing a Recognizable Ethics
The author uses Michel Foucault's power/knowledge/pleasure combination to analyze the production of ethical practices in qualitative research. Through two data stories, the author recounts her own pleasurable acts while carrying out an ethnographic study in her hometown high school. The pleasures of conducting such home-work are analyzed to point out the ethics of constituting the experience of the self in qualitative research
Multiple Annies: Feminist Poststructural Theory and the Making of a Teacher
Feminist poststructural theories of subjectivity posit a notion of the self as a site of disunity and conflict that is always in process and constructed within power relations. In teacher education, this theory of subjectivity troubles the notion of a predetermined, unified teacher identity assumed to emerge if a novice follows a linear, already-completed path of the student teaching experience. This article presents the story of Annie, a young w…
Making matter making us: Thinking with Grosz to find freedom in new feminist materialisms
In this paper, I offer a very close reading of Grosz [2010. “Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom.” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, 139–157. Durham, NC: Duke University Press] thinking with Bergson in order to re-conceptualise freedom, matter, and the subject in new feminist materialisms. My central argument is that these free acts are mutually constituted in the intra-action [Barad 200…
Can I claim your roots and take credit for the shoots
(2003). Can I claim your roots and take credit for the shoots? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 731-735
Multiple Annies: Feminist Poststructural Theory and the Making of a Teacher
Feminist poststructural theories of subjectivity posit a notion of the self as a site of disunity and conflict that is always in process and constructed within power relations. In teacher education, this theory of subjectivity troubles the notion of a predetermined, unified teacher identity assumed to emerge if a novice follows a linear, already-completed path of the student teaching experience. This article presents the story of Annie, a young w…
Can I claim your roots and take credit for the shoots
(2003). Can I claim your roots and take credit for the shoots? International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education: Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 731-735
Rhizovocality
In this conceptual paper, the author offers a rethinking of the concept of voice in qualitative research informed by feminist, postcolonial, and poststructural theories. Using Deleuze & Guattari's (1987) figuration of the rhizome, the irruptions of voice in feminist and postfoundational qualitative research are mapped to invent a concept of voice, rhizovocality, that signifies voice as excessive and transgressive yet interconnected. This mapping …
Tensions in Learning to Teach: Accommodation and the Development of a Teaching Identity
This article analyzes how Sharon, a student teacher, negotiated the different conceptions of teaching that provided the expectations for good instruction in her university and the site of her student teaching and how her effort to reconcile the different belief systems affected her identity as a teacher. The key settings of Sharon's experience were the university program, her third-grade class at Harding Elementary, and her first teaching job. Du…
Performativity Identified
Poststructural feminist notions of subjectivity point to a notion of the "self" that is fluid, contradictory, and produced in relationships with others and everyday practices. These social structures and processes that shape subjectivity are situated within discursive fields where language, power relations, and discourses exist, intersect, and construct competing ways of giving meaning to and constructing subjectivity. This article explicates Jud…
Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions in Qualitative Research
Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, What does it mean to work the limits of voice? from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice. The thought-provoking book will shift qualitative inquir…
Experience and “I” in Autoethnography: A Deconstruction
The purpose of this paper is to deconstruct the “researcher as subject” (Ellis & Bochner, 2000) imperative in authoethnography in order to confront the limits of a reliance on experience and a narrative voice in the genre. We use poststructural theories of experience and language (i.e., voice) to analyze the assumptions of each and how these constructs are employed in autoethnography. We argue that in an attempt to engage the crises of representa…
Power and pleasure in ethnographic home-work: Producing a Recognizable Ethics
The author uses Michel Foucault's power/knowledge/pleasure combination to analyze the production of ethical practices in qualitative research. Through two data stories, the author recounts her own pleasurable acts while carrying out an ethnographic study in her hometown high school. The pleasures of conducting such home-work are analyzed to point out the ethics of constituting the experience of the self in qualitative research
Deleuze and the girl
In this article, I seek to represent something that must be lived. It feels impossible to represent that which is described by Deleuze and Guattari as movement that is simultaneous, asymmetrical, instantaneous, unfinalized, zig‐zag. This movement is Deleuze and Guattari's concept of difference, that which they name becoming. To put this concept of becoming to work, I use three texts. One is chapter 10 of A Thousand Plateaus, the second is Brian M…
Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives
Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's Critics Choice Award!Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how to use various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry; effectively opening up the process of data analysis in qualitative research. It uses a common data set and utilizes various theoretical perspectives
In the Threshold: Writing Between-the-Two
In this paper, we describe our encounters in and passes through the figuration of the threshold as producing writing between-the-two: or, loss of the individual subject. We describe how in the threshold, we meet in that in-between space, a space of shared deterritorialization in which we constitute one another. Also, we describe writing between-the-two in the threshold as a site of embodiment, of affect. In thinking of how to articulate our way o…
"Complicating Voice in a Refusal to "Let Participants Speak for Themselves
In this article, the authors respond to the editors' call to challenge simplistic and mechanistic approaches to qualitative research that preclude dense and multilayered treatment of data. The editors assert that such practices can lead to (over)simplified knowledge claims, something especially risky when participant "voice" is presented as an expression of "experience" devoid of context. The authors approach the methodological project of a simpl…
Making matter making us: Thinking with Grosz to find freedom in new feminist materialisms
In this paper, I offer a very close reading of Grosz [2010. “Feminism, Materialism, and Freedom.” In New Materialisms: Ontology, Agency, and Politics, edited by Diana Coole and Samantha Frost, 139–157. Durham, NC: Duke University Press] thinking with Bergson in order to re-conceptualise freedom, matter, and the subject in new feminist materialisms. My central argument is that these free acts are mutually constituted in the intra-action [Barad 200…
Posthumanist data analysis of mangling practices
In this paper, I argue against traditional coding in interpretive data analysis and offer a posthumanist alternative that offers qualitative researchers a new way to create ontological becomings in their reading of data. I begin with an overview of how humanism enables us to think qualitative data analysis as coding, and then counter human-centered inquiry with a description of Pickering’s mangle and its potential as a both a figuration and a dif…
Spaces of Power/Knowledge: A Foucauldian Methodology for Qualitative Inquiry
In this paper, I argue for a consideration of Foucault's power/knowledge doublet as a spatial, analytic methodology for the use of studying the productive effects of practices in education. A spatial reading involves disentangling the complex production of subjectivity as an effect of power/knowledge relations and practices. A power/knowledge reading of the multiple effects of social, cultural, and material practices within relations of power/kno…
Plugging One Text Into Another: Thinking With Theory in Qualitative Research
In this article, the authors describe the work of their recently published book, Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives. The purpose of this article is to show how they use theory to think with their data (and use data to think with theory) in order to accomplish a reading of data that is both within and against interpretivism. The authors put to use a concept picked up from Deleuze and Guattari to…
Qualitative Data Analysis After Coding
Thinking with an Agentic Assemblage in Posthuman Inquiry
During the autumn of 2014, a 50-pound standard-issue dormitory mattress made its way across various spaces on the campus of Columbia University in New York. At times, the dark blue foam mattress was carried by one woman, Emma Sulkowicz — a senior visual arts major at Columbia. At other times, Sulkowicz was joined by others on campus (friends and strangers) in a collective carry to share the burden of movement. These solitary and participatory car…
Potentializing a Deleuzian Refrain
The author works Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari's concept of the refrain to craft an affective, material assemblage of the lactating body
Calls of/to the Ordinary
Ordinary Affects tells stories of everyday happenings and practices, a collage of the mundane brought to life in brief tales told in the third person. Yet the text is other—more—than this. In one scene the book's protagonist is alone at a table in a café in a West Texas town and she—“I call myself ‘she’... as a point of contact”1—notices a biker couple entering. They limp. They sit, talking intently. As the solitary diner–writer leaves, she walks…
New Empiricisms and New Materialisms: Conditions for New Inquiry
This article, which introduces this special issue on new empiricisms and new materialisms, focuses on two of the many conditions that enable this new work: first, an ethical imperative to rethink the nature of being to refuse the devastating dividing practices of the dogmatic Cartesian image of thought and, second, a heightened curiosity and accompanying experimentation in the becoming of existence. The article includes a brief description of how…
An Ontology of a Backflip
I use the Deleuze and Guattari geo-philosophical 'Plateau 11. 1837: Of the Refrain' to map the conditions of the emergence of a particular territorial refrain: a backflip. Using a research encounter that involved a cheerleading dance, I position the backflip as a refrain that draws from the rhythms of various milieus to mark a territory. I follow the backflip along a line of flight to describe its ontological force of creation and newness
Thinking Without Method
The author relies on Deleuze's critique of the dogmatic image of thought to produce the conditions under which new concepts are created. Putting together a network of concepts such as the outside, the encounter, and force, the author invents thinking without method, an emergent, fragmented strategy that forms the outside of stratified qualitative research methods. The author draws upon some of her previous work to experiment with a new starting p…
Voice in the Agentic Assemblage
This chapter explains Jane Bennett's concept of the agentic assemblage to position the discursive artifacts of qualitative inquiry as always already material and the material as an always already discursive construction. It provides positing voice in qualitative educational research as a thing that is entangled with other things in an assemblage that acts with an agential force. Voice as present, stable, authentic, and self-reflective such a voic…
Possibles and Post Qualitative Inquiry
St. Pierre describes post qualitative inquiry as something that “must be created, invented anew each time” and as residing on an ontological plane of possibles. What we present below are a series of possibles
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