Collage as Analysis: Remixing in the Crisis of Doubt. (July 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Holbrook, Teri; Pourchier, Nicole M.
• Other Names: St.Pierre Elizabeth A. guest-editor.; Jackson Alecia Y. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 20:Number 6(2014)
• Page Start: 754
• Page End: 763
• Publication Date: 2014-07
• Subjects: collage -- a/r/tography -- the fold -- arts-based inquiry; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800414530260
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

In this article, the authors take up the question of what they do when they do analysis in post-qualitative research contexts. Working as a/r/tographers who see their artist/researcher/teacher practices as simultaneous and non-hierarchical, they use theory, writing, and collaging to think beyond work produced by "positivist, scientific storytellers." Art-making within inquiry becomes a rigorous articulation process through which sense (rather than meaning) is tentatively fabricated. The article includes a three-part assemblage that conveys how the authors articulate thought through pieced fragments of data in ongoing movements of hoarding, mustering, and folding, the aim of which is not to conclude with answers but to pause, gather energy, and invite comments until questions spur them on again.