Flipping Methodology: Or,Errancy in the Meanwhile and the Need to Remove Doors

Abstract

This article ponders two questions:

What does “postqualitative” mean to you?

Why do you think the “postqualitative” movement is important to the field of qualitative inquiry?

In response, it poses a method/ology of errancy—a flipping methodology—that locates postqualitative research as an ethico-onto-epistemological political project of opening theory-practice spaces for differential matterings. Postqualitative flipping is not an individual undertaking, it is an ecology of practices, a resonation across bodies, a navigating of movement for a politics of change, in which even barely perceptible shifts possibilize new modes of thinking and unthinking, doing and undoing.

Keywords

postqualitative errancy flipping methodology hospitality visitation

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