Antimethodology: Postqualitative Generative Conventions
Abstract
In this article, I explain antimethodology—a creative and generative methodology—and its resulting research conventions that were put to work in a study about an assemblage of humans, nonhumans, living, and nonliving in family history genealogy. Antimethodology is a middle space that is created between reterritorializing forces (e.g., conventional qualitative inquiry) and deterritorializing forces (e.g., poststructural and posthuman theories that throw positivist and interpretivist theories that ground conventional qualitative inquiry into radical doubt). Antimethodology, then, cannot be replicated or transferred to other studies. Rather, each iteration of antimethodology materializes from the forces at work in a research context. I offer research conventions, or contingent meetings between these forces, as a way to rethink methods, data, and other practices within qualitative inquiry/research.
Publication Title
Qualitative Inquiry
Recommended Citation
Nordstrom, S. (2018). Antimethodology: Postqualitative Generative Conventions. Qualitative Inquiry, 24 (3), 215-226. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417704469
