Responsible Methodologist

Aaron M. Kuntz is Department Head, Educational Studies in Psychology, Research Methodology, and Counseling, and Associate Professor of Educational Studies at the University of Alabama, USA. He serves as Program Coordinator for the PhD in Educational Research and teaches graduate courses in qualitative inquiry and foundations of education. His research interests include critical qualitative inquiry, academic activism and citizenship, critical geography, and philosophy of education. Kuntz's publications appear in such diverse journals as Qualitative Inquiry , Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies , Journal of Language and Politics , The Journal of Higher Education , The Review of Higher Education , International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education , Higher Education Policy , and others. He co-authored Qualitative Inquiry for Equity in Higher Education: Methodological Implications, Negotiations, and Responsibilities (Jossey-Bass) and co-edited with John Petrovic the volume Citizenship Education: Global Perspectives, Local Practices (Routledge). He received his doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA.

"Aaron Kuntz has written a stunning critique of technocratic social science methodology that ignores both its historical and political entanglements as well as its theoretical commitments. He reminds us that methodology is thinkable (or not) only within specific onto-epistemological formations and cannot be applied willy-nilly from one study to another as has become all too common in educational research." --Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia "...Finally we have something to cite when discussing methodologists' responsibilities and qualitative inquiry as a political act! This book offers well-structured arguments and lovely theoretical insights related to the ways in which methodologists who take their work seriously move beyond the question of procedure when approaching methodological knowing and scholarship. I highly recommend this book for all interested in expanding their perspectives on methodological responsibilities of scholars who teach and study methods."... --Mirka Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University "...This dangerous methods book puts Foucault to good work in contesting neoliberal proceduralism and addressing ethically activist research in a critical materialist moment."... --Patti Lather, Ohio State University, emerita

• Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Logics of Extraction; Chapter 3 Materialism and Critical Materialism; Chapter 4 Methodological Parrhesia: Truth-Telling; Chapter 5 Methodological Materiality: Toward Productive Social Change;