The volume posits the question of what happens when lived, fleshy human bodies engage in postqualitative research in education. It takes as its central concern research propositions aimed at dismantling the structures of humanism that typically govern research in education.

Nicole Land is Assistant Professor, School of Early Childhood Studies, Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada.

Introduction to the Series

Written by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Series Co-editor

Introduction

Where we are Headed

Four Critical Moves to Hold Near

Bodying

Fissures and Fractures

Physiologies

Postqualitative Provocations

Moving into the Body of the Book

Chapter One: Biocultural Creatures, Postqualitative Data, and Caffeine Shakes

Biocultural Creatures

Composite-in-Tension

Postqualitative Data

Bodying Postqualitative Research: Caffeine Shakes

Fracture One: Minnows

Chapter Two: Biomedical Imaginaries, Methodology, and Antipsychotic Medications

Biomedical Imaginaries

Neurobiological Bodies

Postqualitative Methodologies

Bodying Postqualitative Research: Antipsychotic Medications

Fracture Two: Turing Test_Love

Chapter Three: Biopossibility, Clarity, and Scars

Biopossibility

A Topological Sense of Biopolitics

Postqualitative Clarity

Bodying Postqualitative Research: Scars

Fracture Three: Fermentation

Chapter Four: Pedagogical Inquiry Work, Proprioception, and a Sweaty Quad

Proprioception

A Sweaty Quad

Fracture Four: Childless Offspring

Conclusion: Bodying Postqualitative Research

Proposition One: Imagine how postqualitative relations with the biosciences might proceed

Proposition Two: Build otherwise imaginaries and lexicons for doing bodies with postqualitative proposals

Proposition Three: Craft ways to intentionally, but not anthropocentrically, body postqualitative research

Final Gesture: On Education Research

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