Theory Is Dead. (July 2017)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Kaufmann, Jodi
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 23:Number 6(2017)
• Page Start: 423
• Page End: 426
• Publication Date: 2017-07
• Subjects: indigenous epistemologies -- ethnicity and race -- reforming the social sciences -- decolonizing the academy -- pedagogy -- postmaterialism; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800416672699
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

This article discusses the possibility that Western theory, with its ghostly apparition of power, is dead. Suggesting that Indigenous and quantum thought erase the difference between the measuring object and the object of measurement found in traditional Western theory, this article argues that Indigenous and quantum thought may change the narrative structure of traditional Western theory, allowing for qualitative research in/through being. The author concludes with a prayer and coda to a practice of qualitative inquiry beyond Western theory.