Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research
Methodologies without Methodology
1st Edition
Published on 4. June 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-1-4833-5171-1 (ISBN)
Description
Calling for qualitative research that is complex, situational, theoretically situated, and yet productive, Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research discusses the multiplicities and uncertainty embedded in different methodological configurations and entanglements that blur the boundaries between doing research, theorizing, thinking, and reflecting. Writing in a clear, conversational style, author Mirka Koro-Ljungberg urges readers to think about qualitative research differently, often in creative ways, and to continuously question existing grand narratives and dogmas.
Reviews / Votes
Because of [the author's] deep theoretical knowledge combined with years of working with young scholars and students, she articulates what we all struggle with as qualitative research. You will find yourself nodding your head with the points she is making and furiously taking notes. This is a book that will be well-worn and loved when you finish it. -- Cassie Quigley, Clemson University This book is a thinking text for new and seasoned qualitative researchers. Readers who engage 'Methodologies without Methodology' (because this text refuses to be passively read) will be provoked, moved, and challenged to rethink the processes and purposes of qualitative research and compelled to risk engaging in a more creative and exciting inquiry that resists conformity. -- Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, University of South Florida This book provides a thoughtful articulation of qualitative inquiry from a post-perspective. Readers are invited to deconstruct qualitative inquiry in provocative yet productive ways. I would highly recommend this text for novice or seasoned scholars that desire an alternative to more traditional qualitative research texts and approaches. -- Jori N. Hall, University of Georgia This book discusses the squishy-ness of qualitative research in a way that most books do not. It provides ample philosophical grounding and encourages the reader to think critically. -- Ruth Ban, Barry UniversityMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Thousand Oaks
United States
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 191 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
485 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4833-5171-1 (9781483351711)
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Person
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg (PhD, University of Helsinki) is a professor of qualitative research at the Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and sociocultural critique, and her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She has published in various qualitative and educational journals, and she is the author of Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research: Methodologies Without Methodology (2016) published by SAGE and coeditor of Disrupting Data in Qualitative inquiry: Entanglements With the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017) by Peter Lang.
Content
About the Author
Random yet Necessary Appreciation Notes
The (Un)Structure of This Book
1: A Proxy for a Foreword
2: Methodological Language Creates "Realities": Labels and Language Matter
Why Do Labels Matter?
Different Uses of Labels
Qualitative Researchers' Romance With the Meaning
Labels Create, Act, Provoke, and Do Other Things
Using Labels of Reflexivity and Triangulation
Possibilities of Linguistic Creativity and Innovation in Research: Living With Words Without Stable Meaning
Reading List of Life
3. Data-Wants and Data Entanglements: Data Matter
Data Directionality
The Dilemma of Data-Wants
Data's Past
Data Object
Interlude: Knowledge Context
Analytical Interactions in the Existing Literature
What Might Data Want?
The Paradox of Wanting/Interacting
Reading List of Life
Irruption 1: Introducing Undirectionality and Uncertainty Through Images
4. Fluid Methodological Spaces: Methodologies Matter
What Do Linear Methodologies Do?
What Might Happen in Fluid Methodological Spaces?
Conceptualizing Fluid and Incorporeal Methodological Spaces
Connecting With Massumi and Deleuze
Connecting With Baudrillard
Connecting With Mol and Law
Annemarie Mol's Fluid Methodology
Another Conceptualization Beyond Mol's Methodological Singularity
The Unexpected Lives of Methodologies Without Methodology
Reading List of Life
5. Afterword: This Project (and Other Projects Alike) May Be "Failing" Productively
Irruption 2: Performance, Philosophy, and Not-Knowing
6. Methodological Responsibility Outside Duty: Responsibility Matters
Why Does Responsibility Matter?
The Role of Research Responsibility in Forming Public Policy
Return to Responsibility
Imaging Responsibility as Resisting Closure and Holding a Space for the Other
Imaging Responsibility as Responding to Urgency
Imaging Responsibility as Rupturing Tradition, Authority, and Order
Researchers' Responsibilities To Come
Reading List of Life
7. Teaching and Learning the Unteachable: Pedagogies Matter
Teaching Through the Teachable Past and Transferable Experiences
Dilemma 1: Qualitative Research Occurs "Here" or "There"
Dilemma 2: Qualitative Research Methods as Luxury or Necessity
Dilemma 3: Qualitative Research Methods May Be Personally Favored but Socially Marginalized
Learning With(out) Teachable Teaching
Teaching With the Past: Some Ghost Stories
Curriculum Events and Erasure of a Ghost Curriculum
A Series of Unthinkable and Unknowable Classroom Events
Beginning Again and Again: New Projects, New Methodologies
Reading List of Life
8. Productive Paradoxes in Participant-Driven Research: Communities and Audiences Matter
Body Maps as Tools for Reflection on PDR
PDR Exemplars from Student Researchers
Working Together With the National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI): A Community-Based Classroom Project
Voice, Diversity, and Literacy Leadership With Young Children at Risk: Learning From and With Child-Care Workers
Another Understanding of PDR: Where To Go From Here
Reading List of Life
Irruption 3: Living Uncertainty
References
Index
Random yet Necessary Appreciation Notes
The (Un)Structure of This Book
1: A Proxy for a Foreword
2: Methodological Language Creates "Realities": Labels and Language Matter
Why Do Labels Matter?
Different Uses of Labels
Qualitative Researchers' Romance With the Meaning
Labels Create, Act, Provoke, and Do Other Things
Using Labels of Reflexivity and Triangulation
Possibilities of Linguistic Creativity and Innovation in Research: Living With Words Without Stable Meaning
Reading List of Life
3. Data-Wants and Data Entanglements: Data Matter
Data Directionality
The Dilemma of Data-Wants
Data's Past
Data Object
Interlude: Knowledge Context
Analytical Interactions in the Existing Literature
What Might Data Want?
The Paradox of Wanting/Interacting
Reading List of Life
Irruption 1: Introducing Undirectionality and Uncertainty Through Images
4. Fluid Methodological Spaces: Methodologies Matter
What Do Linear Methodologies Do?
What Might Happen in Fluid Methodological Spaces?
Conceptualizing Fluid and Incorporeal Methodological Spaces
Connecting With Massumi and Deleuze
Connecting With Baudrillard
Connecting With Mol and Law
Annemarie Mol's Fluid Methodology
Another Conceptualization Beyond Mol's Methodological Singularity
The Unexpected Lives of Methodologies Without Methodology
Reading List of Life
5. Afterword: This Project (and Other Projects Alike) May Be "Failing" Productively
Irruption 2: Performance, Philosophy, and Not-Knowing
6. Methodological Responsibility Outside Duty: Responsibility Matters
Why Does Responsibility Matter?
The Role of Research Responsibility in Forming Public Policy
Return to Responsibility
Imaging Responsibility as Resisting Closure and Holding a Space for the Other
Imaging Responsibility as Responding to Urgency
Imaging Responsibility as Rupturing Tradition, Authority, and Order
Researchers' Responsibilities To Come
Reading List of Life
7. Teaching and Learning the Unteachable: Pedagogies Matter
Teaching Through the Teachable Past and Transferable Experiences
Dilemma 1: Qualitative Research Occurs "Here" or "There"
Dilemma 2: Qualitative Research Methods as Luxury or Necessity
Dilemma 3: Qualitative Research Methods May Be Personally Favored but Socially Marginalized
Learning With(out) Teachable Teaching
Teaching With the Past: Some Ghost Stories
Curriculum Events and Erasure of a Ghost Curriculum
A Series of Unthinkable and Unknowable Classroom Events
Beginning Again and Again: New Projects, New Methodologies
Reading List of Life
8. Productive Paradoxes in Participant-Driven Research: Communities and Audiences Matter
Body Maps as Tools for Reflection on PDR
PDR Exemplars from Student Researchers
Working Together With the National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI): A Community-Based Classroom Project
Voice, Diversity, and Literacy Leadership With Young Children at Risk: Learning From and With Child-Care Workers
Another Understanding of PDR: Where To Go From Here
Reading List of Life
Irruption 3: Living Uncertainty
References
Index