Top Ten+ List: (Re)Thinking Ontology in (Post)Qualitative Research. (April 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Lather, Patti
• Other Names: St.Pierre Elizabeth A. guest-editor.; Mazzei Lisa A. guest-editor.; Jackson Alecia Y. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Cultural studies, critical methodologies. Volume 16:Number 2(2016:Apr.)
• Page Start: 125
• Page End: 131
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Subjects: Post-qualitative -- feminist methodologies -- methodologies -- new materialist -- feminisms; Culture -- Research -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Research -- Periodicals; 306.05
• DOI: 10.1177/1532708616634734
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1532-7086

Abstract

This article presents a "top ten+ list" of lessons learned from the ontological turn. Across various terms and insistences, the article surveys theories of social change, the subject and agency, the canons constructed, the methodologies materialized, the "more and other than reflexivity" researcher subjectivity endorsed, and the edges of both policy analysis and quantitative research that already instantiate such lessons. It concludes with a meditation on how to think this latest turn within something other than a temporality of successor regimes, end-isms, and apocalyptic breaks.