New Directions in Theorizing Qualitative Research

What can it mean to resist in these troubled times, and how can we do so through theory? This volume presents novel ideas on how to accomplish this in the context of the field of qualitative research. The authors show us how we might go beyond pre-existing, systematized research methodologies to find our way. They challenge us to go beyond facile modes of thought and slow down any mechanistic practices of research, a slowing that can be surprisingly generative regarding pedagogy and knowledge production. The articles think through theories such as ones theorizing the postcolonial for the purpose of responding to global hegemony regarding institutional experiences of academe. They engage with practices of new materialism and show the multiform ways in which theory can be a companion to us in our journey of research. Further, the articles question hold-overs from humanist and modernist thought so that we might perform an inclusive pedagogy. Rather than falling into the cynical view that the world is too troubled to change, this volume presents a sound vision that we have no option but to engage in theoretical practice, for now, there’s no time not to think.

Introduction
There’s No Time to Not Think
James Salvo

Chapter One
“Theory is Back”: Theory as Resistance in the 21st Century
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre

Chapter Two
Speculative (Wombing) Pedagogies: |Rəˈzistəns| in Qualitative Inquiry
Rebecca C. Christ & Candace R. Kuby

Chapter Three
Disorientation in/as Feminist Inquiry
Sara M. Childers

Chapter Four
Ahmed as Feminist Reorientation and Necessity
Becky Atkinson

Chapter Five
Ahmed as Companion for Feminist Inquiry
Lucy E. Bailey

Chapter Six
Thinking About Theory and Practice in Non-Oppositional Terms
Serge F. Hein

Chapter Seven
Missing Voices: A Documentary Practice About Parents’ and Children’s Perspectives in Inclusive Education
Hanne Vandenbussche, Ellen Vermeulen, Elisabeth De Schauwer, Inge Van de Putte, and Geert Van Hove

Chapter Eight
Lazy Pedagogy
Ryan Evely Gildersleeve

Chapter Nine
Global Hegemony: Unraveling Colonized Minds and Indigenous Healing 
Tina Bly

About the Authors

Index