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PANEL_8
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Panel 1--Postfoundational approaches to qualitative inquiry: Enactments and extensions Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry is an edited collection that provides a framing for these two panels. The book aims to move beyond a critique and deconstruction of method in order to present an engagement with various postfoundational frameworks and approaches that produce new concepts and enactments. What makes the contributions to the book unique, and the subsequent new papers generated for this conference, is the singular focus on postfoundational paradigms, borrowed from the humanities and sciences, that are enveloped in what is referred to as the ontological turn, the new empiricisms, and the new materialisms. Postfoundational inquiry in this context is conceived as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. In the original book, the editors invited authors to offer enactments as a way of reorienting toward what is unthought, not yet, and becoming. This “not yet” is that which happens “in the moment of sensing, thinking, reading, and writing in the production of the new” (Jackson & Mazzei, 2023, p. 5). These enactments are not bound to foundational assumptions in that they do not follow a predetermined method, nor do they attempt to represent traditional accounts of fieldwork. Furthermore, they do not aim to critique or deconstruct. Instead, they overturn and displace foundations not only by attuning to the contingency of what emerges, but also by decentering human agency in favor of prepersonal, affective encounters that are of the world. In these two sessions, an orienting introduction will be provided to explain more fully the facets of postfoundational inquiry as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. Contributors to these panels were invited to revisit their earlier writings and consider: How is your current work aligned with postfoundational approaches? What you learned, or how your work has shifted/extended from the chapter produced for the book? Presentations of the Panel Postfoundational inquiry: Session overview and key facets An orienting introduction to the session to explain more fully the facets of postfoundational inquiry as emergent, relational, responsive, involuntary, and inventive. Contributors to these panels were invited to revisit their earlier writings and consider: 1. How is your current work aligned with postfoundational approaches? 2. What you learned, or how your work has shifted/extended from the chapter produced for the book? Listening to soil In the Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry, I responded to “What are you questioning, and how does your approach stay open to questionability?” I offered ‘casade questioning’ as an agential realist inspired opening a research project. Cascade questioning traces and re-configures entanglements of multiple spacetimematter. Since then, this postfoundational approach has been helpful in current research, in which I am conducting a more-than-human-ethnography of soil-care relations with anthropogenetic soil – tracing and questioning a myriad of entanglements, while exploring what it may entail to listen to soil. Unleashing latent potentiality through sensory ethnography Buildings are foundational. They house institutions and represent settler establishment. A post-foundational approach to the study of lived architecture destabilizes these assumptions, and exposes the provisional contingency of the built environment. In this presentation we discuss how we used software arts to make buildings quiver and quake, long before time would transform the structures into ruins. We focus on what we learned from situating our work in relation to the postfoundational – in particular, how experiments with sensory ethnography re-animated the milieu and lured the evental nature of the building out of stasis. Caring as ontological politics Our respective work has extended on what Annemarie Mol calls “ontological politics”, which constitutes a caring. This entails a choice of a problem of concern and then doing the job of a respectful caring about all agents involved; while simultaneously living with and negotiating the differences produced by them, based on often contrary or conflicting experiences and forms of knowing. This is a position of high-stake risk, while it comes with a refusal of making a choice based on an essentialist ethics or values. | ||