This accessible introductory guide introduces researchers of all disciplines and fields in higher education to key concepts and different ways of working and practice ('doings') in the notoriously complex fields of postqualitative, new materialist and critical posthumanist research.
Karin Murris is Professor of Early Childhood Education at the University of Oulu (Finland), and Emerita Professor of Education at the University of Cape Town (South Africa). Her research interests are in pedagogy and philosophy, childhood studies and ethics. She is Chief editor of the Routledge series 'Posthumanist, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research'.
Introduction: Making Kin: Postqualitative, New Materialist and Critical Posthumanist Research; 1. Knowledge Matters: Five Propositions Concerning the Reconceptualisation of Knowledge in Feminist New Materialist, Posthumanist and Postqualitative Approaches 2. What Paradigmatic Perspectives Make Possible: Considerations for Pedagogies and the Doing of Inquiry 3. The 'Missing Peoples' of Critical Posthumanism and New Materialism 4. Eastern Ethico-Onto-Epistemologies as a Diffracting Return: Implications for Post-Qualitative Pedagogy and Research 5. A New Science of Contemporary Educational Theory, Practice and Research 6. Re-Turning to Embodied Matters and Movement through Postqualitative Inquiries 7. Rendering Each Other Capable: Doing Response-Able Research Responsibly 8. Reanimating Video and Sound in Research Practices 9. Rethinking Research 'Use': Reframing Impact, Engagement and Activism with Feminist New Materialist, Posthumanist and Postqualitative Research