Qualitative Inquiry, Cartography, and the Promise of Material Change

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-138-04278-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 162 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 417 g

What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of ethically engaged citizenship with implications for resisting our contemporary moment towards a more equitable future.

The author engages his own inquiry as radical cartographic work, drawing forth distinctions between dialectical and dialogic formations of materialism in order to develop what he terms relational materialism—an engaged orientation to living that dwells in the entangled relations of affirmative ethics and enduring practices of resistance and refusal. Drawing upon examples from higher education, contemporary culture, and normative assumptions of governance, the author considers the potential that we might generate living alternatives to the contemporary status quo; daily practices no longer dependent on binary division or standardized calculations of what "matters." As such, the author advocates for practices of virtuous inquiry (future-orientated ethical assertions of what one should do) that orient inquiry as materially ethical activity.

Despite the often-overwhelming state of inequity and exploitation in our contemporary world, Kuntz generates an affirmative ethical stance that we can become relationally different, guided by a virtuous determination to articulate inquiry as the cartographic work of disruption and imagination. This text will prove valuable to graduate students and faculty who take inquiry seriously and seek the means to understand their work as engaged in the necessary challenge for material change.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kuntz, Aaron M.

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Empirische Sozialforschung, Statistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Being/Becoming Material

Chapter 3. Knowledge & Class: Coming to Process

Chapter 4. Truth-Telling, Inquiry, & Affirmative Ethics

Chapter 5. Relational Inquiry as Radical Cartography

Chapter 6. Higher Education and the Governance of Things

Chapter 7. Refusal & Resistance

References

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron M. Kuntz is Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Alabama where he teaches graduate courses in qualitative inquiry and foundations of education. His research focuses on developing materialist methodologies – ways of producing knowledge that take seriously the theoretical deliberations of critical theory, relational materialism, and poststructuralism.