New Directions in Theorizing Qualitative Research

What can it mean to resist in these troubled times, and how can we do so through theory? This volume presents novel ideas on how to accomplish this in the context of the field of qualitative research. The authors show us how we might go beyond pre-existing, systematized research methodologies to find our way. They challenge us to go beyond facile modes of thought and slow down any mechanistic practices of research, a slowing that can be surprisingly generative regarding pedagogy and knowledge production. The articles think through theories such as ones theorizing the postcolonial for the purpose of responding to global hegemony regarding institutional experiences of academe. They engage with practices of new materialism and show the multiform ways in which theory can be a companion to us in our journey of research. Further, the articles question hold-overs from humanist and modernist thought so that we might perform an inclusive pedagogy. Rather than falling into the cynical view that the world is too troubled to change, this volume presents a sound vision that we have no option but to engage in theoretical practice, for now, there’s no time not to think.


Introduction

There’s No Time to Not Think

James Salvo


Chapter One

“Theory is Back”: Theory as Resistance in the 21st Century

Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre


Chapter Two

Speculative (Wombing) Pedagogies: |Rəˈzistəns| in Qualitative Inquiry

Rebecca C. Christ & Candace R. Kuby


Chapter Three

Disorientation in/as Feminist Inquiry

Sara M. Childers


Chapter Four

Ahmed as Feminist Reorientation and Necessity

Becky Atkinson


Chapter Five

Ahmed as Companion for Feminist Inquiry

Lucy E. Bailey


Chapter Six

Thinking About Theory and Practice in Non-Oppositional Terms

Serge F. Hein


Chapter Seven

Missing Voices: A Documentary Practice About Parents’ and Children’s Perspectives in Inclusive Education

Hanne Vandenbussche, Ellen Vermeulen, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Inge Van de Putte, and Geert Van Hove


Chapter Eight

Lazy Pedagogy

Ryan Evely Gildersleeve


Chapter Nine

Global Hegemony: Unraveling Colonized Minds and Indigenous Healing 

Tina Bly


About the Authors


Index