'The Past Was Never Simply There to Begin with and the Future Is Not Simply What Will Unfold': A Posthumanist Performative Approach to Qualitative Longitudinal Research

Autor/in	Mauthner, Natasha
Titel	'The Past Was Never Simply There to Begin with and the Future Is Not Simply What Will Unfold': A Posthumanist Performative Approach to Qualitative Longitudinal Research
Quelle	In: International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 18 (2015) 3, S.321-336 (16 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1364-5579
DOI	10.1080/13645579.2015.1022298
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Qualitative Research; Longitudinal Studies; Ethics; Moral Values; Political Influences; Economic Factors; Guidelines; Metacognition; Foreign Countries; Philosophy; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Qualitative Forschung; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Ethik; Moral value; Ethischer Wert; Political influence; Politischer Einfluss; Ökonomischer Faktor; Richtlinien; Meta cognitive ability; Meta-cognition; Metakognitive Fähigkeit; Metakognition; Ausland; Philosophie; Großbritannien
Abstract	In this article I argue that in their current genealogical and philosophical configuration, qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) practices -- and a wider regime of knowledge, ethical, moral, legal, technological, political and economic practices with which they are entangled -- embed and enact representational assumptions in which the realities being investigated -- time, change and continuity; the past, present and future -- are taken as ontologically given and independent of these QLR (and wider) practices. My approach is to conceptualize QLR practices along nonrepresentational lines, through a philosophical framework that is able to materialize the constitutive effects of QLR (and wider) practices on the objects of study and knowledges produced. For this, I turn to Karen Barad's posthumanist performative metaphysics -- 'agential realism' -- a framework that embodies and enacts a non-classical ontology in which entities are seen as constituted through material-discursive practices. On this account, QLR (and wider) practices are understood as an ineliminable and constitutive part of the realities they help bring into being. (As Provided).
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