Speculative Methodological Subjects

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Title: Speculative Methodological Subjects
Language: English
Authors: Mirka Koro, Anani Vasquez, Timothy Wells, Mariia Vitrukh, Jorge Sandoval
Source: International Journal of Social Research Methodology. 2024 27(6):675-691.
Availability: Routledge. Available from: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. 530 Walnut Street Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. Tel: 800-354-1420; Tel: 215-625-8900; Fax: 215-207-0050; Web site: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 17
Publication Date: 2024
Document Type: Journal Articles
Reports - Descriptive
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Models, Imagination, Vignettes, Futures (of Society)
DOI: 10.1080/13645579.2023.2248832
ISSN: 1364-5579
1464-5300
Abstract: Times of (post) health crisis, global unrest, and political turmoil, a reliance on conventional methods, which potentially lack radical imagination and future orientation, experimentation, and open-endedness, might not be enough. Furthermore, within the discourses of conventional qualitative inquiry, methodological subjects are often seen as overly pre-determined, singular, and static. In this paper, we approach the conceptual and practical challenges of imagining and creating speculative methodological subjects by asking, how might speculative research, including processes of radical imagination and scenario building, shape qualitative scholars' relationships to the formation of methodological subjects and their politics. By sharing scenario-building examples and experimenting with speculative tasks, we explore methodological possibilities for 'subjects' and their entanglement with the lives of qualitative researchers. While collectively thinking about the methodological subject, we encountered relational, non-stable subjects that crossed bodies, sounds, affects and time-spaces.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2024
Accession Number: EJ1452147
Database: ERIC
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