Staff publications – Matthew Thomas, Robin Bellingham (ed)
Post-Qualitative Research and Innovative Methodologies
Matthew Thomas & Robin Bellingham explore the possibilities of the relationships between theory and method as enacted in post-qualitative research. The contributors, based in Australia, Canada, the UK and USA, use theory and method to disrupt established traditions and create new and alternative possibilities for research in identity, agency, power, social justice, space, materiality, and other transformations. Using examples of recent and highly innovative research practices which meaningfully challenge taken-for-granted assumptions in education and social science, the editors and contributors including Eve Mayes, Julianne Moss and Mary Dixon alongside others open new ground for other ways of thinking about doing research in these fields. Major theoretical perspectives explored and applied include: posthumanism, poststructuralism, feminist theory, ecofeminism, new materialism, SF, and critical theory and the theorists drawn on include: Karen Barad, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, Mikhail Bakhtin, Donna Haraway, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, Rosie Braidotti, Anna Tsing and Stacy Alaimo. This book is about how theory and method can be operationalised. The text aims to inform, shape and encourage disruptive methodologies for those working with social theory in education research.
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