How might one situate oneself in and respond to research literature in a way that does not assume traditional humanist research paradigms? In response, I engage in poetic inquiry through my readings of certain scholarly articles published in the field of postqualitative inquiry. I present two of them here, based on two articles that strike a rhythm in me; evocations are created and my voice merges with the existing voices in creating further lines of flight. The poetry helps me attune to inquiry and in turn inquiry is revealed as a sensitive attunement to the rhythms of life.
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BhattacharyaK. (2007). Voices lost and found: Using found poetry in qualitative research. In Cahnmann-TaylorM.SiegesmundR. (Eds.), Arts-based research in education: Foundations for practice (pp. 83–88). Routledge.
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BhattacharyaK. (2013). Voices, silences, and telling secrets: The role of qualitative methods in arts-based research. International Review of Qualitative Research, 6(4), 604–627.
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BhattacharyaK. (2020). Rejecting labels and colonization: In exile from post-qualitative approaches. Qualitative Inquiry. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420941049
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FaulknerS. L. (2009). Poetry as method: Reporting research through verse. Left Coast Press.
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GerrardJ.RudolphS.SriprakashA. (2017). The politics of post-qualitative inquiry: History and power. Qualitative Inquiry, 23(5), 384–394. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800416672694
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ManningE. (2016). Minor gesture. Duke University Press.
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