Post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialist turn: implications for sport, health and physical culture research. Issue 2 (15th March 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Fullagar, Simone
• Is Part Of: Qualitative research in sport, exercise & health. Volume 9:Issue 2(2017)
• Page Start: 247
• Page End: 257
• Publication Date: 2017-03-15
• Subjects: Post-qualitative inquiry -- post-humanism -- new materialism -- embodiment; Sports sciences -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Exercise -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Health -- Research -- Methodology -- Periodicals; 613.71
• DOI: 10.1080/2159676X.2016.1273896
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2159-676X

Abstract

Abstract: In this article, I examine the 'turn to' post-qualitative inquiry (PQI), new materialism and post-humanist theories to consider the challenges of, and implications for, doing research in sport, health and physical culture. The term 'post-qualitative inquiry' indicates a decisive departure from the ethico-onto-epistemological assumptions that have informed the humanist interpretive tradition of qualitative research. Moving beyond a theory/method divide, PQI draws its methodological inspiration from critical post-humanist debates concerned with how 'matter' is thought and constituted through entanglements of human and non-human bodies, affects, objects and practices. Such a shift reorients thinking around relational questions about the material-discursive forces co-implicated in what bodies can 'do' and how matter 'acts', rather than a concern with what 'is' a body or the agentic meaning of experience. I discuss how these new styles of thought reorient our onto-epistemological assumptions and theory–method approaches through engagement with PQI within (and beyond) sport, health and physical culture scholarship.