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A voice without organs

Interviewing in Posthumanist Research

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ID8096728
AuthorsL A Mazzei (0000-0002-4312-3938, University of Oregon, corresponding author)
Year2013
Volume26
Issue6
Pages732-740
Publication date2013-06-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0951-8398 • E-ISSN: 1366-5898
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/09518398.2013.788761
OpenAlexW2062733271
LanguageEN
Citations received140
References cited9

In keeping with the editor’s call for this special issue, this paper discusses how a posthumanist stance has enabled me to materialize a different conception of the interview and interview data in postqualitative inquiry. More specifically, I am thinking with Deleuze and Guattari’s concept, the Body without Organs, one they use to enact thinking without a subject and to liberate thought from overcoded images in order to confront a reliance on objects or material representations to understand and explain. Using this concept, I theorize a Voice without Organs (VwO) as a voice that does not emanate from a singular subject but is produced in an enactment among research-data-participants-theory-analysis. The article concludes with an analysis of data from a recent interview project that illustrates how VwO is both produced by and producing different knowledge and suggests implications for thinking interviewing and interview data differently

Deleuze and Guattari · Epistemology · Interview · Pedagogy · Qualitative research · Semi-structured interview · Social science · Sociology · Subject (documents · Computer Science · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics

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