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Panel 2--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: 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? Presentations of the Panel Postfoundational inquiry: Session overview and key facets This orienting introduction will 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? Unsettling the geopolitical tensions in my neck. Re-enacting the methodology of performative cartographies Since the publication of Postfoundational Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry, which included my chapter “A performative and vibrant cartography: re-animating the archive,” the sensation of being caught in an affective stuck place within knowledge work has only intensified. In this paper, I seek to unsettle the geopolitical tensions I feel lodged in my neck by experimenting with a performative cartography of past personal and historical events collected in an archive of family letters from the former Danish Realm of Iceland and Denmark. This mapping traces the contour of conditions shaping current intersectional researcher positionalities and illuminates the struggles many of us encounter when working with questions of sustainability and diversity in education. What do postfoundational political commitments look like? Considering racism The Western Enlightenment’s theory of social change has historically presumed identification of the truth must proceed enacting the good. Postfoundationalism, by pluralizing ontology and thus rendering epistemology contingent, renders this ethics/knowledge relation unviable. This paper asks what relation between inquiry and politics is emerging, using the test of responding to racism as its touchstone Resisting the romance of chance: A cautious rethinking of the “adventure of the involuntary” in postfoundational inquiry The presentation interrogates, though it does not recant, the case made in the original paper for transversal inquiry as an “adventure of the involuntary” (Deleuze, 2000). I wonder about the allure of the transversal leap, the self-satisfaction of “wonder” and the bravado of the ontological adventure(r): is postfoundational thought (my own at least) still animated by colonial imaginaries of uninvited entry into other worlds? | ||
