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Orientating to assembling: qualitative inquiry for more-than-human worlds

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posted on 2023-05-24, 19:41 authored by Kim McLeodKim McLeod
A qualitative inquiry that can be active in relation to nonhuman and emergent forms of life requires methods in addition to those which articulate individual voices and experiences. This presentation describes one experiment with destabilising the sovereign human subject – a characteristic feature of qualitative methods – during each stage of an empirical research project exploring how people experience taking antidepressants. The key strategy I used was to experiment with imbuing Deleuze’s concept of the assembling of collective bodies into the research processes across the span of the project. From the experiment, seven orientations towards qualitative inquiry emerged. I will discuss the political and ethical implications of ‘orientating to assembling’ in qualitative research processes. ‘Orientating to assembling’ throughout the concrete practices composing qualitative research projects is suggested as a contribution to a qualitative inquiry adequate to engaging with more-than-human worlds.

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Publication title

Australian Sociological Association Conference

Department/School

School of Social Sciences

Publisher

The Australian Sociological Association

Place of publication

Australia

Event title

The Australian Sociological Association

Event Venue

Mebourne, Australia

Date of Event (Start Date)

2013-11-25

Date of Event (End Date)

2013-11-28

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  • Restricted

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Expanding knowledge in human society

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