Jessica Van Cleave
Biographic Data
| ID | 143257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jessica Van Cleave |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jessica |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Cleave |
| SIGNATURE | VAN CLEAVE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Mars Hill University, NC, USA |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2531-3965 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 40 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Failures and Possibilities of Philosophy in the Material World
In this article, we engage the tension between the failures and possibilities of theories to which we hold attachments. The failure of theory for us is also the failure of qualitative research because as scholars who engage in philosophically informed and critical inquiries, research and theory are inextricably bound. Drawing on our individual and collective experiences, we explore moments when the promise of philosophy crumbled as seismic shifts…
Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research as a Writerly and Readerly Accomplishment: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the special issue, "Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research." Rather than viewing trustworthiness as an inherent product of high-quality research practices, this special issue considers how researchers manifest and construct appearances of trustworthiness within and through academic texts. Conceptualizing trustworthiness as produced within scholarly writing opens the idea of trustworthiness to broader scrutin…
Producing Participants: Trustworthiness as Convenient Fiction
Trustworthiness in qualitative research reports is considered a marker of quality and rigor. That rigor relies on factors like transparency and reflexivity, or the extent to which a researcher can accurately and clearly-read: believably-write the story of the research, the participants, and themselves. In this article, we argue that all representations of research participants, including the researchers themselves, are fiction, and distinctions b…
Work/Think/Play in Doctoral Education
This article is the introduction to the special issue, "Work/Think/Play in Doctoral Education." Similar to its companion issue titled, "Work/Think/Play in Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry," the goal of this issue is not to define, categorize, stabilize, or normalize the processes and practices of inquiry that remain behind-the-scenes of research reports and dissertations. Nor is it to make visible what researchers do when we say we are doi…
Readings That Rock Our Worlds
During doctoral programs, many scholars have experiences with texts that disrupt, that interrupt, that somehow open up unforeseen ways of being, thinking, feeling, and knowing. In this article, we provide short contributions from a wide swath of scholars who explore the many ways reading can change everything, electrifying us with possibilities of what might be thinkable now, and terrifying us because ideas and knowledge that we'd held dear all o…
Work/Think/Play in Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry
In this article, we introduce the special issue on work/think/play in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. Our aim for the issue is to open up conversations about what does happen, what can happen, and/or what should happen in the name of qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. We hope that the issue raises methodological questions in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry about ways of being in the world as researchers-and most specificall…
Engaging Uselessness: Philosophical Reading and Dwelling in the Excess
In this article, I explore how to make space in the neoliberal academy for inquiry that welcomes what is yet to be thought, imagined, anticipated while also remaining responsible to institutional demands that privilege a certain type of academic subject. I draw upon Manning and Massumi's notion of uselessness to position philosophy as a generative tool. Specifically, I explain how useless reading of philosophy positions becoming an academic subje…
Complicating methodological transparency
A historical indicator of the quality, validity, and rigor of qualitative research has been the documentation and disclosure of the behind-the-scenes work of the researcher. In this paper, we use what we call methodological data as a tool to complicate the possibility and desirability of such transparency. Specifically, we draw on our disparate attempts to address calls for transparency about methodological processes in our respective dissertatio…
Pursuing Responsibility: Writing and Citing Subjects in Qualitative Research
Similar to qualitative researchers who have troubled and been troubled by the impossibility of representing subjects, in this article, we focus on how our attempts to write subjects to excess-to remain open to unforeseeable data that proliferated as we wrote-"radically de-naturalize[ed] what [we'd] taken for granted" as qualitative researchers. Specifically, the unraveling of the humanist subject initiated the rupture of what we thought of as a p…
Writing the Torment: Aporetic Data and the Possibility of Justice
In this article, we reconfigure the notion of writing with theory to include a troubling of theory as data that is always already coded by our citational practices. However, the reduction of the 'cacophony of ideas swirling as we think about our topics with all we can muster' to a singular citation, while necessary if we want to bear the burden of our interpretations, is also dangerous because the more mechanistic data analysis becomes, the less …
"As Cited In" Writing Partnerships: The (Im)possibility of Authorship in Postmodern Research
Despite that qualitative researchers have persistently positioned research as a collaborative endeavor, single-authorship is ultimately valued in the academy, producing tension between the expectation and (im)possibility of such single-authorship. In this article, we demonstrate how we attend to this tension by focusing on how our citational practices within the text and in authorship bylines enable us to continuously interrogate and deconstruct …
Complicating methodological transparency
A historical indicator of the quality, validity, and rigor of qualitative research has been the documentation and disclosure of the behind-the-scenes work of the researcher. In this paper, we use what we call methodological data as a tool to complicate the possibility and desirability of such transparency. Specifically, we draw on our disparate attempts to address calls for transparency about methodological processes in our respective dissertatio…
Writing the Torment: Aporetic Data and the Possibility of Justice
In this article, we reconfigure the notion of writing with theory to include a troubling of theory as data that is always already coded by our citational practices. However, the reduction of the 'cacophony of ideas swirling as we think about our topics with all we can muster' to a singular citation, while necessary if we want to bear the burden of our interpretations, is also dangerous because the more mechanistic data analysis becomes, the less …
Pursuing Responsibility: Writing and Citing Subjects in Qualitative Research
Similar to qualitative researchers who have troubled and been troubled by the impossibility of representing subjects, in this article, we focus on how our attempts to write subjects to excess-to remain open to unforeseeable data that proliferated as we wrote-"radically de-naturalize[ed] what [we'd] taken for granted" as qualitative researchers. Specifically, the unraveling of the humanist subject initiated the rupture of what we thought of as a p…
Readings That Rock Our Worlds
During doctoral programs, many scholars have experiences with texts that disrupt, that interrupt, that somehow open up unforeseen ways of being, thinking, feeling, and knowing. In this article, we provide short contributions from a wide swath of scholars who explore the many ways reading can change everything, electrifying us with possibilities of what might be thinkable now, and terrifying us because ideas and knowledge that we'd held dear all o…
Work/Think/Play in Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry
In this article, we introduce the special issue on work/think/play in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. Our aim for the issue is to open up conversations about what does happen, what can happen, and/or what should happen in the name of qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. We hope that the issue raises methodological questions in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry about ways of being in the world as researchers-and most specificall…
Engaging Uselessness: Philosophical Reading and Dwelling in the Excess
In this article, I explore how to make space in the neoliberal academy for inquiry that welcomes what is yet to be thought, imagined, anticipated while also remaining responsible to institutional demands that privilege a certain type of academic subject. I draw upon Manning and Massumi's notion of uselessness to position philosophy as a generative tool. Specifically, I explain how useless reading of philosophy positions becoming an academic subje…
"As Cited In" Writing Partnerships: The (Im)possibility of Authorship in Postmodern Research
Despite that qualitative researchers have persistently positioned research as a collaborative endeavor, single-authorship is ultimately valued in the academy, producing tension between the expectation and (im)possibility of such single-authorship. In this article, we demonstrate how we attend to this tension by focusing on how our citational practices within the text and in authorship bylines enable us to continuously interrogate and deconstruct …
Writing the Torment: Aporetic Data and the Possibility of Justice
In this article, we reconfigure the notion of writing with theory to include a troubling of theory as data that is always already coded by our citational practices. However, the reduction of the 'cacophony of ideas swirling as we think about our topics with all we can muster' to a singular citation, while necessary if we want to bear the burden of our interpretations, is also dangerous because the more mechanistic data analysis becomes, the less …
"As Cited In" Writing Partnerships: The (Im)possibility of Authorship in Postmodern Research
Despite that qualitative researchers have persistently positioned research as a collaborative endeavor, single-authorship is ultimately valued in the academy, producing tension between the expectation and (im)possibility of such single-authorship. In this article, we demonstrate how we attend to this tension by focusing on how our citational practices within the text and in authorship bylines enable us to continuously interrogate and deconstruct …
Pursuing Responsibility: Writing and Citing Subjects in Qualitative Research
Similar to qualitative researchers who have troubled and been troubled by the impossibility of representing subjects, in this article, we focus on how our attempts to write subjects to excess-to remain open to unforeseeable data that proliferated as we wrote-"radically de-naturalize[ed] what [we'd] taken for granted" as qualitative researchers. Specifically, the unraveling of the humanist subject initiated the rupture of what we thought of as a p…
Complicating methodological transparency
A historical indicator of the quality, validity, and rigor of qualitative research has been the documentation and disclosure of the behind-the-scenes work of the researcher. In this paper, we use what we call methodological data as a tool to complicate the possibility and desirability of such transparency. Specifically, we draw on our disparate attempts to address calls for transparency about methodological processes in our respective dissertatio…
Work/Think/Play in Doctoral Education
This article is the introduction to the special issue, "Work/Think/Play in Doctoral Education." Similar to its companion issue titled, "Work/Think/Play in Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry," the goal of this issue is not to define, categorize, stabilize, or normalize the processes and practices of inquiry that remain behind-the-scenes of research reports and dissertations. Nor is it to make visible what researchers do when we say we are doi…
Readings That Rock Our Worlds
During doctoral programs, many scholars have experiences with texts that disrupt, that interrupt, that somehow open up unforeseen ways of being, thinking, feeling, and knowing. In this article, we provide short contributions from a wide swath of scholars who explore the many ways reading can change everything, electrifying us with possibilities of what might be thinkable now, and terrifying us because ideas and knowledge that we'd held dear all o…
Work/Think/Play in Qualitative and Postqualitative Inquiry
In this article, we introduce the special issue on work/think/play in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. Our aim for the issue is to open up conversations about what does happen, what can happen, and/or what should happen in the name of qualitative and postqualitative inquiry. We hope that the issue raises methodological questions in qualitative and postqualitative inquiry about ways of being in the world as researchers-and most specificall…
Engaging Uselessness: Philosophical Reading and Dwelling in the Excess
In this article, I explore how to make space in the neoliberal academy for inquiry that welcomes what is yet to be thought, imagined, anticipated while also remaining responsible to institutional demands that privilege a certain type of academic subject. I draw upon Manning and Massumi's notion of uselessness to position philosophy as a generative tool. Specifically, I explain how useless reading of philosophy positions becoming an academic subje…
The Failures and Possibilities of Philosophy in the Material World
In this article, we engage the tension between the failures and possibilities of theories to which we hold attachments. The failure of theory for us is also the failure of qualitative research because as scholars who engage in philosophically informed and critical inquiries, research and theory are inextricably bound. Drawing on our individual and collective experiences, we explore moments when the promise of philosophy crumbled as seismic shifts…
Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research as a Writerly and Readerly Accomplishment: Introduction to the Special Issue
This article introduces the special issue, "Manufacturing Trustworthiness in Qualitative Research." Rather than viewing trustworthiness as an inherent product of high-quality research practices, this special issue considers how researchers manifest and construct appearances of trustworthiness within and through academic texts. Conceptualizing trustworthiness as produced within scholarly writing opens the idea of trustworthiness to broader scrutin…
Producing Participants: Trustworthiness as Convenient Fiction
Trustworthiness in qualitative research reports is considered a marker of quality and rigor. That rigor relies on factors like transparency and reflexivity, or the extent to which a researcher can accurately and clearly-read: believably-write the story of the research, the participants, and themselves. In this article, we argue that all representations of research participants, including the researchers themselves, are fiction, and distinctions b…
Epistemology (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Participatory Visual Research Methods (6 works) · Social science (6 works) · Engineering ethics (5 works) · Qualitative research (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)