A M Kuntz
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 41332 |
|---|---|
| NOME | A M Kuntz |
| PRENOMES | A M |
| SOBRENOME | Kuntz |
| ASSINATURA | KUNTZ A M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Alabama |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3088-9133 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 132 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 37 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2010 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Methods Despite or Without Content? Reflections on Teaching Qualitative Research
There is no shortage of scholarship focusing on qualitative pedagogy. However, very little has been written about the tension in the classroom between teaching methods and the content instructors use to do so. The relationship between methods and content is critical to the success of any class. In this paper, we discuss the pedagogical choices of two professors and the consequences, both good and ill, of such choices. Each takes a different appro…
Making the Just
I argue that inquiry, ethics, and justice extend a critical and dynamic relation, the force of which might charge an affirmative process of making a difference; productive challenges to normative convention that resonate on ontological levels. When considered within the material processes of crisis and grieving, the productive entanglement of inquiry, ethics, and justice is granted important direction, lending a critical entry point for confectin…
Admining beyond certainty
In higher education, the discursive establishment of 'faculty' vs. 'administrator' creates a dualistic, hierarchical structure, informing relationalities between/within ourselves and faculty. As administrators, we found/find ourselves in relational encounters, entanglements of material-discursive bodies, that we were/are a part of producing. In these relational encounters, we experience ethics, care, and response-ability within immanent decision-…
Chinese university students’ imaginaries of China in “the New Era”
This paper presents data from a qualitative research project with university students in China regarding how they interpreted and represented the government’s newly stated direction into a “New Era”. It also investigates how different forms of media, as well as ideological and political curricula and activities, informed student participants’ unsystematical and sentimental national imaginaries. This research employs qualitative coding methods and…
Ethical Engagement and Relational Materialism
This article is derived from a webinar series conversation titled, “Post Philosophies and the Doing of Inquiry.” During the webinar panelists were asked to respond to four questions: 1. How does your philosophical approach influence your ways of doing inquiry? 2. What does this philosophical approach make thinkable or possible for inquiry? 3. What are your perspectives on methodology(ies) and/or methods? How do you envision that in your approache…
Materially Just
In this article, I consider how our materialist inquiry might enact a sense of justice and virtue in these fascist times. I do so through the following overarching claim: addressing fascism requires a simultaneous challenge to the seductive entanglements of liberalism, humanism, and capitalism, a dense skein of ethical, ontological, epistemological, and material formations we order to conventionally live our lives. To engage such an argument, I f…
“Piercing This Wall”
In this article, Kuntz argues for new orientations to inquiry that enact immanently entangled processes of mapping, refusing, and making—radical practices with implications for resisting the fascisms of our present time. As an extended example, Kuntz explicates one such critical orientation, parrhesia, as an inquiry orientation that manifests through an ethical determination to challenge the exploitative relations of our present. Through this exa…
Standing at One’s Post
In this article, I advocate for a reading of the “post” as a type of watchful cartographic practice that bears productive similarity to Foucault’s project of building a “history of the present.” I then consider the implications of such mapping practices for post-qualitative inquiry, which I understand as a type of ethical enactment desperately needed given the inequities and systems of exploitation that govern our contemporary moment. I end with …
Proclaiming the New
This introduction to a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry on “new approaches to inquiry” questions the need for preexisting social science research methodologies for inquiry that aspires to produce the “new,” that which is unrecognizable and incomprehensible in the Cartesian onto-epistemological arrangement that enables those methodologies. Quite a few contemporary scholars encouraged by the lure of the new have found “old” philosophies promisi…
Speculative Experimentation, Exclusion, and Uneven Material Agencies
This article was presented as a response to Dr. Mirka Koro’s Egon Guba Lecture offered at the 2021 American Educational Research Association Conference
Avowing as healing in qualitative inquiry
This article problematizes the role of the interview as a methodological strategy that loses its easy replication when employed in studies with undocumented youth. We raise questions about the contingencies of conducting qualitative interviews with undocumented youth – what does it mean leverage the interview-event as a space of healing for them? What does it mean to recognize, or potentially mis-recognize one’s identity in the context of a resea…
Infantmethodologies
Infantmethodologies is a concept that was playfully invented to gauge philosophical interestin the intersection between infants (or a chid; or infancy; or childhood) and methodologies(and philosophies, theories and concepts). This provocation aims to debate this intersection andweaves thinkers from around the world in order to generate discussion on the question, ‘Howdo we study a child’? Asking this question generates further questions: What pro…
Knowledge and Class
This chapter delves more directly into notions of materialist ethics in order to challenge those simplistic claims of relativism that are often levied at relational philosophical orientations. It discusses particular thread of materialism made possible by an overt ethical stance of material relationality. The chapter seeks to recognize a relational inquiry practice that manifests a type of virtuous citizenship; one that may productively inform bo…
Relational Inquiry as Radical Cartography
Radical cartography recognizes such dynamic relationality as the affirmative challenge of potential; an open-ended not-yet through which alternative practices of living might manifest. The methodological technician eyes such dynamic change with suspicion, searching for procedures and technologies that might stay such movement, closing off the map in the name of prediction. Situating inquiry work as necessarily cartographic practice stems from the…
Higher Education and the Government of Things
This chapter engages the relational means of knowing and becoming that are often aligned with current manifestations of relational materialism and posthumanism in order to better interrogate the governing effects of higher education generally and practices of inquiry more specifically. It offers a mapping of relational logic, radical materialism, and the implications of their development within governing traditions—a means of putting the philosop…
Being/Becoming Material
This chapter discusses the question of materialism in order to create a means for engaging with the concept as part of an overt political project of change. It articulates a reminder of the dangers inherent in totalizing theories, especially those aligned with projects invoked for more socially just change. The chapter works towards a relational materiality that makes possible the means of resistance. Synthesis is a simplistic and reductive epist…
Refusal and Resistance
This chapter discusses the inquiry in relation to strategies of refusal and intervention amidst the Anthropocene. It discusses the potential for intervention within the milieu of higher education. The chapter presents an overview of the contextual and conceptual distinctions of the Anthropocene, pointing to the inherent challenges and potentialities extending from our contemporary moment. It establishes inquiry as practiced effects extending from…
Truth-Telling, Inquiry, and Affirmative Ethics
This chapter begins with the problem of binary division and the ease with which such manufactured dualities play out in our inquiry practices. It discusses the legacy of negative critique and inquiry work resulting in the formation of research as the incessant assertion of problems with existing solutions. The chapter examines the creative capacity to enact a type of relationally engaged citizenship that foregrounds truth-telling as a means of po…
Becoming Openly Faithful
In this article, the authors consider the implications of teaching and enacting inquiry as an indeterminate event, one that interrogates the assumptions of paradigmatic fixity with the hopes of being other than we are. To do so, the authors articulate a sense of openly faithful pedagogical practice, blurring the boundaries of the classroom and inquiry site and promoting the possibilities inherent in “slippage.” The indeterminacy invoked in slippa…
(Un)Fixing Education
Qualitative Inquiry, Cartography, and the Promise of Material Change
What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of ethically engaged citizenship with implications for resisting our contemporary moment towards a more equitable future. The author engages his own inqui…
Inquiry on the Sly
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
Disrupting Façades of Clarity in the Teaching and Learning of Qualitative Research
In this article we examine two methodological façades of clarity that commonly shroud critical qualitative educational inquiry. More specifically, we interrogate discussions of reflexivity and positionality and explore the ways in which methodology curricula and instructional practices perpetuate façades of clarity, or a false sense of coherence, ultimately undermining the transformative potential of critical educational research. We identify spe…
Working Bakhtin's Body
In this article we critically examine the use of embodiment in education research and illustrate how analyses of embodiment within education reframe persistent educational problems in productive, actionable ways. We juxtapose embodied analyses with traditional analyses of speech by interrogating Bakhtin's notions of the body and dialogue, each of which departs from dominant modes of analysis in education research. We purposefully read Bakhtinian …
Wandering the Tactical
In this article, we address the simplistic use of the interview as a methodological technique that abstracts the humanist subject as an object for analysis. Rather than simply a tool of inquiry, we present the interview as a wholly engaged encounter, a means for making accessible the multiple intersections of material context that collude in productive formations of meaning. In this process, we hope to indicate the possibility for the interview t…
Qualitative Inquiry, Cartography, and the Promise of Material Change
What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of ethically engaged citizenship with implications for resisting our contemporary moment towards a more equitable future. The author engages his own inqui…
England expects
The essence of global sports has been competition among nations at the international level. For football, arguably the world's most popular sport, global rivalries are paramount, and every four years since 1930, it has been the World Cup that has provided this excitement. English newspaper narratives about the English men's national football team competing in the 2006 World Cup were examined to gain insight into how English national identity was …
Bourdieu and Academic Capitalism
Infantmethodologies
Infantmethodologies is a concept that was playfully invented to gauge philosophical interestin the intersection between infants (or a chid; or infancy; or childhood) and methodologies(and philosophies, theories and concepts). This provocation aims to debate this intersection andweaves thinkers from around the world in order to generate discussion on the question, ‘Howdo we study a child’? Asking this question generates further questions: What pro…
Reconsidering the workplace
In an effort to foreground the impact of the material environment on faculty activities, this study examines the dynamic intersections among faculty work practices, the academic workplace and professional identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 16 social science faculty at one public university in the United States, this study reveals the impact of the physical environment on faculty perceptions of what they do, where they work and who they…
A Dialogue on Space and Method in Qualitative Research on Education
In this article, the authors critically examine the use of space in education research and illustrate how spatial analyses of education reframe persistent educational problems in productive, actionable ways. The authors juxtapose critical spatial analyses with traditional temporal analyses. The authors approach the knowledge-construction process in dialogue, emphasizing the spatial identity-markers of the historical moments and social spaces with…
Representing representation
What can be known and how to render what we know are perpetual quandaries met by qualitative research, complicated further by the understanding that the everyday discourses influencing our representations are often tacit, unspoken or heard so often that they seem to warrant little reflection. In this article, I offer analytic memos as a means for addressing the subject of representation in qualitative research, its philosophical and ethical dimen…
A Changing Sense of Place
The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education
In this article, the authors consider the ways that faculty in the Foundations strategize the placement of Foundations in teacher education in a politics of survival. Drawing on archival and interview data, the authors discuss the strategies invoked as boundary-work. They then situate boundary-work within the broader interpretive lens of cognitive framing. The authors then consider how the very language that faculty members use reveals the cognit…
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
Faculty Work Practices in Material Environments
This case study examines the implications of the interaction between the material campus and work practices of faculty at a large research institution in the northeast. Analysis of interview data and historical document review concludes that the alignment of faculty role, reward, and place is an important policy mandate for the improvement of faculty work practice
Disrupting the Ethical Imperatives of "Junior" Critical Qualitative Scholars in the Era of Conservative Modernization
In this article, we wrestle with the core issue of how early career researchers translate central tenets and core concepts of critical theory and critical methodology into their research practice. By way of creative representation, we draw from bell hooks and Cornel West's (1991) written rendition of their verbal dialogue in Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Their hope was to offer the book in a dialogic format in such a way that…
Inquiry on the Sly
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
Avowing as healing in qualitative inquiry
This article problematizes the role of the interview as a methodological strategy that loses its easy replication when employed in studies with undocumented youth. We raise questions about the contingencies of conducting qualitative interviews with undocumented youth – what does it mean leverage the interview-event as a space of healing for them? What does it mean to recognize, or potentially mis-recognize one’s identity in the context of a resea…
Obama's American Graduation Initiative
The American Graduation Initiative stands as the cornerstone of the Obama administration's higher education agenda. To investigate the state of the politics of education in the Age of Obama, this article employs critical discourse analysis to unveil the hidden meanings and ideological commitments inherent in Obama's policy discourse. Read within and against the backdrop of what Apple (2006 Apple, M. W. 2006. Educating the “right” way: Markets, st…
Representing representation
What can be known and how to render what we know are perpetual quandaries met by qualitative research, complicated further by the understanding that the everyday discourses influencing our representations are often tacit, unspoken or heard so often that they seem to warrant little reflection. In this article, I offer analytic memos as a means for addressing the subject of representation in qualitative research, its philosophical and ethical dimen…
England expects
The essence of global sports has been competition among nations at the international level. For football, arguably the world's most popular sport, global rivalries are paramount, and every four years since 1930, it has been the World Cup that has provided this excitement. English newspaper narratives about the English men's national football team competing in the 2006 World Cup were examined to gain insight into how English national identity was …
Science, Health, and Nationhood
In this article I invoke the productive potential of critical irritation to disrupt and intervene within contemporary discourses regarding educational research. Utilizing George Canguilhem's (1991) theorization of the normal and the pathological, I interrogate the discursive positioning of educational inquiry on two levels: the national context as seen in President Obama's 2009 address to the National Academy of the Sciences and the more local co…
Obama's American Graduation Initiative
The American Graduation Initiative stands as the cornerstone of the Obama administration's higher education agenda. To investigate the state of the politics of education in the Age of Obama, this article employs critical discourse analysis to unveil the hidden meanings and ideological commitments inherent in Obama's policy discourse. Read within and against the backdrop of what Apple (2006 Apple, M. W. 2006. Educating the “right” way: Markets, st…
Faculty Work Practices in Material Environments
This case study examines the implications of the interaction between the material campus and work practices of faculty at a large research institution in the northeast. Analysis of interview data and historical document review concludes that the alignment of faculty role, reward, and place is an important policy mandate for the improvement of faculty work practice
The Politics of Survival in Foundations of Education
In this article, the authors consider the ways that faculty in the Foundations strategize the placement of Foundations in teacher education in a politics of survival. Drawing on archival and interview data, the authors discuss the strategies invoked as boundary-work. They then situate boundary-work within the broader interpretive lens of cognitive framing. The authors then consider how the very language that faculty members use reveals the cognit…
Disrupting the Ethical Imperatives of "Junior" Critical Qualitative Scholars in the Era of Conservative Modernization
In this article, we wrestle with the core issue of how early career researchers translate central tenets and core concepts of critical theory and critical methodology into their research practice. By way of creative representation, we draw from bell hooks and Cornel West's (1991) written rendition of their verbal dialogue in Breaking Bread: Insurgent Black Intellectual Life. Their hope was to offer the book in a dialogic format in such a way that…
A Dialogue on Space and Method in Qualitative Research on Education
In this article, the authors critically examine the use of space in education research and illustrate how spatial analyses of education reframe persistent educational problems in productive, actionable ways. The authors juxtapose critical spatial analyses with traditional temporal analyses. The authors approach the knowledge-construction process in dialogue, emphasizing the spatial identity-markers of the historical moments and social spaces with…
Working Bakhtin's Body
In this article we critically examine the use of embodiment in education research and illustrate how analyses of embodiment within education reframe persistent educational problems in productive, actionable ways. We juxtapose embodied analyses with traditional analyses of speech by interrogating Bakhtin's notions of the body and dialogue, each of which departs from dominant modes of analysis in education research. We purposefully read Bakhtinian …
A Changing Sense of Place
Bourdieu and Academic Capitalism
Reconsidering the workplace
In an effort to foreground the impact of the material environment on faculty activities, this study examines the dynamic intersections among faculty work practices, the academic workplace and professional identity. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 16 social science faculty at one public university in the United States, this study reveals the impact of the physical environment on faculty perceptions of what they do, where they work and who they…
Wandering the Tactical
In this article, we address the simplistic use of the interview as a methodological technique that abstracts the humanist subject as an object for analysis. Rather than simply a tool of inquiry, we present the interview as a wholly engaged encounter, a means for making accessible the multiple intersections of material context that collude in productive formations of meaning. In this process, we hope to indicate the possibility for the interview t…
Disrupting Façades of Clarity in the Teaching and Learning of Qualitative Research
In this article we examine two methodological façades of clarity that commonly shroud critical qualitative educational inquiry. More specifically, we interrogate discussions of reflexivity and positionality and explore the ways in which methodology curricula and instructional practices perpetuate façades of clarity, or a false sense of coherence, ultimately undermining the transformative potential of critical educational research. We identify spe…
Invasion, alienation, and imperialist nostalgia
The authors present a materialist analysis of the effects of neoliberalism in education. Specifically, they contend that neoliberalism is a form of cultural invasion that begets necrophilia. Neoliberalism is necrophilous in promoting a cultural desire to fix fluid systems and processes. Such desire manufactures both individuals known and culturally felt experiences of alienation which are, it is argued, symptomatic of an imperialist nostalgia tha…
Knowledge and Class
This chapter delves more directly into notions of materialist ethics in order to challenge those simplistic claims of relativism that are often levied at relational philosophical orientations. It discusses particular thread of materialism made possible by an overt ethical stance of material relationality. The chapter seeks to recognize a relational inquiry practice that manifests a type of virtuous citizenship; one that may productively inform bo…
Relational Inquiry as Radical Cartography
Radical cartography recognizes such dynamic relationality as the affirmative challenge of potential; an open-ended not-yet through which alternative practices of living might manifest. The methodological technician eyes such dynamic change with suspicion, searching for procedures and technologies that might stay such movement, closing off the map in the name of prediction. Situating inquiry work as necessarily cartographic practice stems from the…
Higher Education and the Government of Things
This chapter engages the relational means of knowing and becoming that are often aligned with current manifestations of relational materialism and posthumanism in order to better interrogate the governing effects of higher education generally and practices of inquiry more specifically. It offers a mapping of relational logic, radical materialism, and the implications of their development within governing traditions—a means of putting the philosop…
Being/Becoming Material
This chapter discusses the question of materialism in order to create a means for engaging with the concept as part of an overt political project of change. It articulates a reminder of the dangers inherent in totalizing theories, especially those aligned with projects invoked for more socially just change. The chapter works towards a relational materiality that makes possible the means of resistance. Synthesis is a simplistic and reductive epist…
Refusal and Resistance
This chapter discusses the inquiry in relation to strategies of refusal and intervention amidst the Anthropocene. It discusses the potential for intervention within the milieu of higher education. The chapter presents an overview of the contextual and conceptual distinctions of the Anthropocene, pointing to the inherent challenges and potentialities extending from our contemporary moment. It establishes inquiry as practiced effects extending from…
Truth-Telling, Inquiry, and Affirmative Ethics
This chapter begins with the problem of binary division and the ease with which such manufactured dualities play out in our inquiry practices. It discusses the legacy of negative critique and inquiry work resulting in the formation of research as the incessant assertion of problems with existing solutions. The chapter examines the creative capacity to enact a type of relationally engaged citizenship that foregrounds truth-telling as a means of po…
Becoming Openly Faithful
In this article, the authors consider the implications of teaching and enacting inquiry as an indeterminate event, one that interrogates the assumptions of paradigmatic fixity with the hopes of being other than we are. To do so, the authors articulate a sense of openly faithful pedagogical practice, blurring the boundaries of the classroom and inquiry site and promoting the possibilities inherent in “slippage.” The indeterminacy invoked in slippa…
(Un)Fixing Education
Qualitative Inquiry, Cartography, and the Promise of Material Change
What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of ethically engaged citizenship with implications for resisting our contemporary moment towards a more equitable future. The author engages his own inqui…
Inquiry on the Sly
As an ongoing practice, work can never be fully accounted for or described. Furthermore, the notion of play is often situated in opposition to work in Western cultures-as though work and play cannot occur simultaneously or even within the same location. In this article, we engage in a bit of a quandary-how to make our playful actions visible while resisting the foreclosure that visibility often entails. As an attempt at exploring this question (a…
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