This paper deconstructs the concept voice, situating it in the same discursive formation as other concepts that organize conventional, interpretive qualitative inquiry, including presence, narrative, and experience. The author suggests that the overturning of an epistemology and methodology grounded in phonocentrism enables an inquiry that may no longer be recognized as “qualitative.”
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