63:," particularly regarding how to approach "a problem in the midst of inquiryâ in a way that allows new ideas to take shape from preconceived ones. St. Pierre suggested that being restricted to method conforms new research to the form of existing research, hindering progressive insights. In conducting postqualitative inquiry, researchers are able to subvert the endless "repetition of what is known" and instead move toward the limit of what is possible to know. Increasingly, qualitative researchers encounter situations and contexts that are not well known. Postqualitative inquiry posits that through application of epistemology, ontology, and related philosophies to phenomena they encounter through the research process, researchers more substantially add to the body of understanding about those subjects and their relation to the world. It also emphasizes the importance of positionality not only through disclosure in a
185:, Barad describe this entanglement as a result of the diffraction of space, time and matter through each other: "The âtime of nowâ is not an infinitely thin slice of time called the present moment, but rather a thick-now that is a crystallization of the past diffracted through the present." The concept also incorporates the notion that time is inseparable from justice, as space, time, and matter are political, thus making spacetimemattering a provocative lens through which to view social inequalities encountered in qualitative research. In reframing time as iterative and entangled instead of linear and independent, for example, the Western capitalist narrative about progress and advancing civilization unravels and is revealed to be complicit in the exercise of injustice.
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than as two or more pre-existing, individual entities coming together and without discrete boundaries. Intra-action takes a non-anthropocentric view of relations. Although humans are entangled in intra-actions, they are not created by humans; humans themselves are phenomena versus individual subjects. Intra-actions reflect connectedness with the world and are "differentiated and entangled simultaneously." A common example of intra-action from Barad is the writing of a book. According to Barad, an author does not write a book, and a book does not write the author. Instead, the author and the book are continuously and mutually co-constituted as an intra-action.
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should never be separated from epistemology and ontology". Doing so, states St. Pierre, reduces inquiry to methods, process, and technique, making it mechanized and inhibiting the discovery of new knowledge by challenging existing knowledge. In publishing this idea, St. Pierre created an opening for the development of new ways of conducting research that move beyond conventional humanist approach and incorporate the "posts." Emerging forms of this "post"-centered research that incorporate ontology include new empiricism and new materialism; collectively this movement is called "the ontological turn."
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entanglement is not a combining of the material (nonhuman, reality) and language (human, social) but rather sees them as being intertwined, inseparable, and iterative. The word "human," for example, though defined ontologically, is an abstract concept that has been used to separate humans from nonhumans, as well as humans from other humans, in the physical, material sense. Language is oriented to the human, but entanglements, and in turn the meaning of language, generate a complex ecology that cannot be reduced to dualism.
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etc.) A material-discursive view acknowledges that matter gives meaning to phenomena through intra-action, and as such influences their ontology. This contrasts with a representational view of concepts as ideas captured only by humans through language. Barad give the example of measuring electrons with two different apparatusesâone that interprets the electrons as waves and another that interprets them as particles. The material conditions of the apparatus determine the meaning of the electrons.
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Onto-epistemology, or "the study of practices of knowing and being," is a word that reflects "being" (ontology) and "knowing" (epistemology) as inseparable and nondichotomous. The hyphenated combination of the two branches of metaphysics represents their interconnectedness. Inherent to this concept
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The practice of postqualitative inquiry does not have defined methods and requires understanding of its foundational philosophies. Thus, unlike with qualitative and quantitative methods, there is no prescription for how to conduct it. Rather, it is based on the application of philosophical ideas of
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principles to deconstruct and reconstruct assumed knowledge about "the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, rationality." Postqualitative inquiry does not follow a defined method and methodology but is rather something that "emerges as a process methodology"
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Entanglement describes the relationships of responsibility and obligation between and among human and non-human entities and is part of agential realism. These relationships are characterized by mutuality that is reflected in discursive practice (language) and vice versa. According to Karen Barad,
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The term material-discursive describes matter as having agency and influence in the same way as living subjects. The actions of matter are called material-discursive practices or forces, and these practices reflect the many ways that matter impacts the world (socially, historically, ecologically,
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Closely associated with agential realism, intra-action is the view that living subjects and nonliving matter consist of relational versus individual existences. Donna
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Elizabeth St. Pierre began to develop an early version of the concept in her doctoral dissertation. The first published work to use the term postqualitative inquiry was her 2011 article "Postqualitative research: The critique and the coming after." The term is based on the idea that "methodology
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Emerging and established ideas from qualitative, quantitative, and indigenous research intersect with and are incorporated into postqualitative inquiry. Many concepts in postqualitative research are based on the works of physicist and feminist theorist
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but as an active part of the research process. The core purpose of postqualitative inquiry is to reconcile the "post" philosophiesâpoststructuralism, posthumanism, postmoderism, and othersâwith the practice of humanist qualitative methodology.
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