A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry. (April 2023)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Østern, Tone Pernille; Jusslin, Sofia; Nødtvedt Knudsen, Kristian; Maapalo, Pauliina; Bjørkøy, Ingrid
• Is Part Of: Qualitative research. Volume 23:Number 2(2023)
• Page Start: 272
• Page End: 289
• Publication Date: 2023-04
• Subjects: performative research -- post-qualitative inquiry -- non-representational research -- research paradigms -- knowledge-in-becoming; Qualitative research -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/14687941211027444
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1468-7941

Abstract

In this article, the authors explore and contribute to producing a performative research paradigm where post-qualitative as well as artistic research might dwell and breathe. Entering a thread of discussion that started with Haseman's A manifesto for performative research in 2006, and building on their own friction-led research processes at the edges of qualitative research, the authors plug in with performativity, non-representational theories and methodologies, post-qualitative inquiry and post approaches. A performative paradigm for post-qualitative inquiry is proposed, where knowledge is viewed as knowledge-in-becoming as the constant creation of difference through researcher entanglement with the research phenomenon and wider world. A performative paradigm produces a space for movement, (artistic) freedom, (post-qualitative) experimentation and inclusion. A performative research paradigm also offers provocations that shake long-established notions about what research is and should be. Within a performative research paradigm, learning/be(com)ing/knowing is always in-becoming – as is the performative paradigm itself.