Year: 2017
Author: Honan, Eileen, Koro-Ljungberg, Mirka, Tesar, Marek, Bright, David, Riddle, Stewart, Ashford, Teresa
Type of paper: Abstract refereed
Abstract:
What would be the purpose of inquiry if we stop privileging knowledge? Would inquiry matter so much after all? If so, what would it look like? What else would we think about? How do we think about thinking? What else would we do? How would we be? (St. Pierre, 2013)
This symposium continues our interrogation of these questions and others posed by St.Pierre in her articulations of 'post-qualitative' research especially in the context of 'data'. We work from within the academy, in various roles and positions, yet all of us are concerned with juxtaposing these questions with the advice and guidance provided to early career researchers and research students. Post-qualitative research challenges scholars to rethink and reimagine inquiry, practices, theories, and conventional qualitative research methodologies. How do we reconcile our commitments to disrupting conventions with the requirements to adhere to university requirements for thesis production, or grant bodies requirements for research funding proposals, and novelty and experimental data generation? How can or might we use data in a post-post contexts and in the post-method world? What changes are required and how do we make these changes 'work'?
In this symposium we take up this challenge and present different ideas about playing with data and thinking about data differently. Data in these presentations make leaps; exploring their attachments and relations as well as potentialities and possibilities. Deconstruction of approaches to conventional qualitative research methods as well as presenting data that is produced in relation to the ontologies of difference can assist qualitative researchers to understand and work through the knowledge production processes at the times of post- methodology and post-truths.
The Symposium is divided into two parts, which both address different dimensions of 'data play'. Part A (papers 1-3) will play with conceptual practices, and Part B (papers 4-6) will play with practical conceptualisations. In Part A, presenters will trouble conventional conceptual practices of data and illustrate alternative ways to think and experiment with data-theory-philosophy. In Part B, presenters will draw examples from diverse data-play-practices and highlight various conceptual potentialities of these play events.
This symposium continues our interrogation of these questions and others posed by St.Pierre in her articulations of 'post-qualitative' research especially in the context of 'data'. We work from within the academy, in various roles and positions, yet all of us are concerned with juxtaposing these questions with the advice and guidance provided to early career researchers and research students. Post-qualitative research challenges scholars to rethink and reimagine inquiry, practices, theories, and conventional qualitative research methodologies. How do we reconcile our commitments to disrupting conventions with the requirements to adhere to university requirements for thesis production, or grant bodies requirements for research funding proposals, and novelty and experimental data generation? How can or might we use data in a post-post contexts and in the post-method world? What changes are required and how do we make these changes 'work'?
In this symposium we take up this challenge and present different ideas about playing with data and thinking about data differently. Data in these presentations make leaps; exploring their attachments and relations as well as potentialities and possibilities. Deconstruction of approaches to conventional qualitative research methods as well as presenting data that is produced in relation to the ontologies of difference can assist qualitative researchers to understand and work through the knowledge production processes at the times of post- methodology and post-truths.
The Symposium is divided into two parts, which both address different dimensions of 'data play'. Part A (papers 1-3) will play with conceptual practices, and Part B (papers 4-6) will play with practical conceptualisations. In Part A, presenters will trouble conventional conceptual practices of data and illustrate alternative ways to think and experiment with data-theory-philosophy. In Part B, presenters will draw examples from diverse data-play-practices and highlight various conceptual potentialities of these play events.