From Out of Glow, Glitter
A Novice Researcher’s Travels in Post-Qualitative Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17814726 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Libby Hamling (University of East Anglia, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-03-23 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Review of Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1940-8447 • E-ISSN: 1940-8455 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/19408447261434513 |
| OpenAlex | W7140133413 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 27 |
This paper explores an episode from a post-qualitative doctoral study on university students’ interest in and commitment to allyship. Using Maggie MacLure’s ideas around ‘Glow’ – those unanticipated, compelling, affective moments in research that open up research enquiry – it explores a moment of discomfort and the insights that arose from it. This emerged when the same group of student allies expressed their ideas about allyship in sharply contrasting ways in individual ‘moving’ interviews and in a workshop. This contrast was puzzling and unsettling, more like an icy, spiky ‘glitter’ than a warm glow. The paper uses the metaphor of the snow globe to describe the meandering pathways opened up by this event, as an illustration of attending to affective moments that disrupt and go beyond traditional practices of research. This article, as a whole, responds to the challenge that post-qualitative inquiry can act as a filter that divides who is ‘in the know’ in research communities and offers a novice researcher’s reflections on the trials and possibilities of attempting such an inquiry
Globe · Metaphor · Teachable moment · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Getting Smart
Math is in the Title
More Just Futures are Possible
Labors of Reading in Post Qualitative Inquiry
Troubling the Troublemakers
Inquiring Artfully
Qualitative methodology and the new materialisms
Collaging Awakening and Resistance With/in Artful Inquiry
Ambulant Methods and Rebel Becomings
Postqualitative Inquiry
Post Qualitative Inquiry, the Refusal of Method, and the Risk of the New
Prefigurative Politics
Writing a rhizome
The offence of theory
Radical Uncertainty Is Not Enough
The walking interview
Critical Posthuman Knowledges
Post Qualitative Inquiry in an Ontology of Immanence
Writing Post Qualitative Inquiry
Antimethodology
The Politics of Post-Qualitative Inquiry
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |