Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research

Mirka Koro-Ljungberg (PhD, University of Helsinki) is a professor of qualitative research at the Arizona State University. Her scholarship operates in the intersection of methodology, philosophy, and sociocultural critique, and her work aims to contribute to methodological knowledge, experimentation, and theoretical development across various traditions associated with qualitative research. She has published in various qualitative and educational journals, and she is the author of Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research: Methodologies Without Methodology (2016) published by SAGE and coeditor of Disrupting Data in Qualitative inquiry: Entanglements With the Post-Critical and Post-Anthropocentric (2017) by Peter Lang.

Because of [the author’s] deep theoretical knowledge combined with years of working with young scholars and students, she articulates what we all struggle with as qualitative research. You will find yourself nodding your head with the points she is making and furiously taking notes. This is a book that will be well-worn and loved when you finish it.

• About the AuthorRandom yet Necessary Appreciation NotesThe (Un)Structure of This Book1: A Proxy for a Foreword2: Methodological Language Creates "Realities": Labels and Language MatterWhy Do Labels Matter?Different Uses of LabelsQualitative Researchers’ Romance With the MeaningLabels Create, Act, Provoke, and Do Other ThingsUsing Labels of Reflexivity and TriangulationPossibilities of Linguistic Creativity and Innovation in Research: Living With Words Without Stable MeaningReading List of Life3. Data-Wants and Data Entanglements: Data MatterData DirectionalityThe Dilemma of Data-WantsData′s PastData ObjectInterlude: Knowledge ContextAnalytical Interactions in the Existing LiteratureWhat Might Data Want?The Paradox of Wanting/InteractingReading List of LifeIrruption 1: Introducing Undirectionality and Uncertainty Through Images4. Fluid Methodological Spaces: Methodologies MatterWhat Do Linear Methodologies Do?What Might Happen in Fluid Methodological Spaces?Conceptualizing Fluid and Incorporeal Methodological SpacesConnecting With Massumi and DeleuzeConnecting With BaudrillardConnecting With Mol and LawAnnemarie Mol′s Fluid MethodologyAnother Conceptualization Beyond Mol′s Methodological SingularityThe Unexpected Lives of Methodologies Without MethodologyReading List of Life5. Afterword: This Project (and Other Projects Alike) May Be "Failing" ProductivelyIrruption 2: Performance, Philosophy, and Not-Knowing6. Methodological Responsibility Outside Duty: Responsibility MattersWhy Does Responsibility Matter?The Role of Research Responsibility in Forming Public PolicyReturn to ResponsibilityImaging Responsibility as Resisting Closure and Holding a Space for the OtherImaging Responsibility as Responding to UrgencyImaging Responsibility as Rupturing Tradition, Authority, and OrderResearchers’ Responsibilities To ComeReading List of Life7. Teaching and Learning the Unteachable: Pedagogies MatterTeaching Through the Teachable Past and Transferable ExperiencesDilemma 1: Qualitative Research Occurs “Here” or “There”Dilemma 2: Qualitative Research Methods as Luxury or NecessityDilemma 3: Qualitative Research Methods May Be Personally Favored but Socially MarginalizedLearning With(out) Teachable TeachingTeaching With the Past: Some Ghost StoriesCurriculum Events and Erasure of a Ghost CurriculumA Series of Unthinkable and Unknowable Classroom EventsBeginning Again and Again: New Projects, New MethodologiesReading List of Life8. Productive Paradoxes in Participant-Driven Research: Communities and Audiences MatterBody Maps as Tools for Reflection on PDRPDR Exemplars from Student ResearchersWorking Together With the National Association on Mental Illness (NAMI): A Community-Based Classroom ProjectVoice, Diversity, and Literacy Leadership With Young Children at Risk: Learning From and With Child-Care WorkersAnother Understanding of PDR: Where To Go From HereReading List of LifeIrruption 3: Living UncertaintyReferencesIndex