Description
Book SynopsisBodying Postqualitative Research posits the question of what happens when lived, fleshy human bodies engage in postqualitative research in education. It takes as its central concern research propositions aimed at dismantling the structures of humanism that typically govern research in education and uses postqualitative conceptions of data, methodology, and clarity in conjunction with insights from feminist science studies scholars to imagine how we might body' postqualitative work.
This book uses the provocations offered by postqualitative research and takes these touchpoints to dismantle dominant logics of research, born of neoliberalism and ongoing settler colonialism to offer alternative perspectives. Importantly, this book stays near to the body by proposing caffeine shakes, antipsychotic medications, and scars as moments to take seriously how bodies do researching practices. After each chapter, the book turns to poetry as a fracture or a moment of disruption to t
Table of Contents
Introduction to the Series
Written by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Series Co-editor
Introduction
Where we are Headed
Four Critical Moves to Hold Near
Bodying
Fissures and Fractures
Physiologies
Postqualitative Provocations
Moving into the Body of the Book
Chapter One: Biocultural Creatures, Postqualitative Data, and Caffeine Shakes
Biocultural Creatures
Composite-in-Tension
Postqualitative Data
Bodying Postqualitative Research: Caffeine Shakes
Fracture One: Minnows
Chapter Two: Biomedical Imaginaries, Methodology, and Antipsychotic Medications
Biomedical Imaginaries
Neurobiological Bodies
Postqualitative Methodologies
Bodying Postqualitative Research: Antipsychotic Medications
Fracture Two: Turing Test_Love
Chapter Three: Biopossibility, Clarity, and Scars
Biopossibility
A Topological Sense of Biopolitics
Postqualitative Clarity
Bodying Postqualitative Research: Scars
Fracture Three: Fermentation
Chapter Four: Pedagogical Inquiry Work, Proprioception, and a Sweaty Quad
Proprioception
A Sweaty Quad
Fracture Four: Childless Offspring
Conclusion: Bodying Postqualitative Research
Proposition One: Imagine how postqualitative relations with the biosciences might proceed
Proposition Two: Build otherwise imaginaries and lexicons for doing bodies with postqualitative proposals
Proposition Three: Craft ways to intentionally, but not anthropocentrically, body postqualitative research
Final Gesture: On Education Research
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