Thinking with theory in qualitative research / Alecia Y. Jackson and Lisa A. Mazzei.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson, Alecia Youngblood, 1968- author.

Mazzei, Lisa A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Qualitative research--Methodology.

Qualitative research.

First-generation college students--United States--Research.

First-generation college students.

Women college teachers--United States--Research.

Women college teachers.

Interviewing--Technique.

Interviewing.

Poststructuralism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 160 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.

Biography/History:

Alecia Y. Jackson is Professor of Social Theory and Research at Appalachian State University, USA, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies program. Her work seeks to animate philosophical frameworks in the production of the new, and her current projects are focused on the ontological turn, qualitative inquiry, and thought. Lisa A. Mazzei is Alumni Faculty Professor of Education at the University of Oregon, USA, where she is also affiliated faculty in the Department of Philosophy. She is interested in philosophically informed inquiry that opens thought to the not yet.

Summary:

Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Second Edition demonstrates how to enact various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry, effectively opening up the process of thought in qualitative studies.Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research functions as a refusal of pregiven method, intensifying creativity, experimentation, and newness. Readers are invited into the threshold of theory to traverse philosophers and their concepts, reorienting conventional approaches to inquiry. Each chapter presents a thinking with process as a way of reading intensively through plugging in performative accounts of two first-generation academic women to philosophical concepts from Derrida, Spivak, Foucault, Butler, Barad, and Deleuze and Guattari. This book is a deliberate attempt to unsettle what is expected to be represented or recognized in terms of both meaning and method in traditional practices of qualitative research, which become unproductive and untenable in this different image of thought. In the ten years since the first edition was published, Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research has become a vanguard text in the field of postfoundational inquiry for its accessible but thorough introductions to philosophically informed inquiry. This book is for experienced and novice researchers, and students in introductory, general, and advanced qualitative inquiry courses, who may also be first-time readers of philosophy. This text will function as an entry into techniques of thinking with a new theoretical vocabulary.-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Plugging one text into another

Interlude I: Why Derrida?

2. Derrida: Thinking with deconstruction

Interlude II: Why Spivak?

3. Spivak: Thinking with marginality

Interlude III: Why Foucault?

4. Foucault: Thinking with power/knowledge

Interlude IV: Why Butler?

5. Butler: Thinking with performativity

Interlude V: Why Barad?

6. Barad: Thinking with intra-action

Interlude VI: Why Deleuze & Guattari?

7. Deleuze and Guattari: Thinking with desire

8. Ontological writing: Unleashing becomings and worldings

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-317-35908-9

1-315-66776-2

9781315667768

OCLC:

1309890456