What do common worlding methods put into play, and are we suitably prepared and adequately accountable?
Shared by B. DENISE HODGINS
What do common worlding methods put into play, and are we suitably prepared and adequately accountable? Mobilizing multimodal research narratives that engage with/in the complex, inequitable worlds we inherit, inhabit and bequeath is a matter of urgent concern. Re-imaginations of humanist inquiry have generated possibilities for thinking-doing research and pedagogy when once-deemed-stable identifiers are rendered unstable, fluctuating, moving, becoming. Educators and researchers have long challenged traditional methods from social justice and equity perspectives, and increasingly call for a reassembling of the field to address 21st-century issues. A common worlds ethic calls for cultivating “methodologies that intentionally, carefully and resolutely work to refuse the dominance of Euro-Western neoliberal touchstones and experiment with speculative, multiple, situated enactments of post-qualitative research to come” (Hodgins, 2019, p. 14). How do we persevere in our researching efforts if, in the words of Patti Lather (2015), “what (post)qualitative research offers is no match for what we want from it” (p. 13)?
References
Hodgins, B.D. (2019). Introduction. In B.D. Hodgins (Ed.), Feminist research for 21st-century childhoods: Common worlds methods (pp. 1-22). London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lather, P. (2015). Against proper objects: Toward the diversely qualitative. Summer Institute in Qualitative Research. Manchester Metropolitan University July 6, 2015.