Homecoming With Culturally Situated Philosophies of Being in Qualitative Inquiry

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ID18969016
AuthorsKakali Bhattacharya (0000-0003-4236-3005, University of Florida, Gainesville, USA, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume29
Issue1
Pages117-125
Publication date2023-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/10778004221111378
OpenAlexW4287958716
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited18

In this article, I enact moves of homecoming in which I reclaim knowledge that I had forgotten or never known. Drawing on wisdom traditions from my heritage, I discuss how I inform my philosophies of inquiry that are de/colonial, Par/Des(i), and transnational. I move between dreamspaces built by utopian desires and the materiality of our existence, connecting absurdity and nonsense as modes of inquiry and as critiques of and relief from multiply interconnected structures of oppression. Tracing back to a children’s literature author in British-occupied India, I use the notions of absurdity and nonsense to reimagine qualitative research from a justice-oriented perspective. I conclude with my chosen exile from the postqualitative labeling of qualitative research to focus on ways of being that are culturally situated, relational, and justice informed

Absurdity · Aesthetics · Economic Justice · Episteme · Epistemology · Homecoming · Oppression · Politics · Qualitative research · Situated · Social science · Sociology · Visual arts · Anthropology · Children's Rights and Participation · Gender Studies · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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