Post qualitative inquiry

This entry explores and traces new methodological orientations that have emerged following the development of post-qualitative inquiry. The entry starts by tracing the development of post-qualitative inquiry and how it is premised on a deep engagement with post-theories. It then highlights the ways in which research with the ‘posts’ has developed by focusing on deconstruction and unsettling binaries, coupled with a deep reading of post-theory and philosophies. It explores other scholars and researchers’ approaches to immanent inquiry and discusses methodologies without methodology, transdisciplinary research, and thinking with theory. The next section considers how researching with post-theories and post-qualitative inquiry requires a different attention to the situatedness of knowledge and the problematisation of what data is and does. To illuminate what researching with post-theories offers, the entry explores two different ways to research with post-theories, these being research-creation and undisciplined/indisciplined inquiry. The entry concludes by summing up the potential for post-qualitative inquiry and other immanent ways to research with post-theories.