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Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia

Animating Potential for Intensities and Becoming in Writing
By: Mary Catherine Garland

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A student quits college on her first day. Ten years later, she gets an imaginary second chance. This book troubles academic barriers through innovative writing, offering multiple entryways to speculate on future educational possibilities for all.

Offering speculation upon the creation of future educational possibilities for all, this book stories both an initial event leading to a sixteen-year-old student’s withdrawal from…
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Offering speculation upon the creation of future educational possibilities for all, this book stories both an initial event leading to a sixteen-year-old student’s withdrawal from a Further Education college on her first day, and an imaginary second chance to support her at university ten years later. Animating potential for intensities and becoming in writing, this work exemplifies different approaches to writing, which foster inquiry and speculation to trouble academic constraints capable of acting as a barrier to so many. Writing in counterpoint to the traditional map of the academic thesis, literature, (non)methodologies and ethics are imbricated in this book, which readers are invited to read in non-linear ways, choosing from multiple entryways and exits.

This book will be of particular interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, and doctoral supervisors, in Education, as well as practitioners involved in supporting students’ writing. Perhaps, most crucially, the book will provoke entry into, provocations within and research-creative inventions that extend the continuing emergence of post qualitative inquiry.

Mary Garland is Alumni Research Fellow with the University of Plymouth, UK. She has taught English and Teacher Education in Adult, Further and Higher Education institutions in Kent and London.

Hardback

  • ISBN: 1-5275-9425-4
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9425-8
  • Date of Publication: 2023-04-11

Paperback

  • ISBN: 1-0364-0140-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-0364-0140-5
  • Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

Ebook

  • ISBN: 1-5275-9426-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-5275-9426-5
  • Date of Publication: 2024-02-20

Subject Codes:

  • BIC: HP, JNM
  • THEMA: QD, JNM
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  • "This book, by Mary Garland, Post Qualitative Inquiry in Academia: Animating Potential for Intensities and Becoming in Writing is both captivating and beguiling. Instantly the reader is invited on another-worldly adventure that skilfully animates the myriad challenges encountered within contemporary educational spaces as they have become increasingly suffocated by neoliberal forces. The tales told manage to be both brave and timid, wild and modest. Blending autobiographical accounts with poetry, creative non-fiction, dreamscapes and so much more - with such affective intensity - is a truly remarkable feat and is what ultimately marks this ‘thesis’ as groundbreaking. The playful invitations to delve into, skitter on the surface, and take deep dives into beautifully crafted experiments in research-creation are testament to an author unafraid to take risks and push boundaries. Yet the vulnerability and rawness also surface in ways that ensure the reader is endlessly captivated and seduced. This book should be essential reading for anyone wondering how to put post qualitative theory to work in ways that have real world relevance. It was an absolute joy to encounter on first reading, but it has the capacity to linger and invite you back in."
    - Professor Jayne Osgood Middlesex University, London, UK
  • "This is a fine book. The author moves deftly between a range of writing genres and styles—personal narrative, creative non-fiction, dialogue, and reflection, and more—as she undertakes complex, playful work with theory. Garland draws particularly from Deleuze, affect theory, the new materialisms, and posthumanism, putting them into conversation with each other and generating new concepts and ways of thinking. This work is original, provocative, moving, surprising, enlightening; a pleasure and a privilege to read."
    - Professor Jonathan Wyatt Professor of Qualitative Inquiry and Director of the Centre for Creative-Relational Inquiry, University of Edinburgh

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