A primer for post qualitative inquiry

ABSTRACT

Because post qualitative inquiry begins with the immanent ontology and concepts of poststructuralism, it cannot be another humanist empirical social science research methodology. This article includes discussions of the origin and ontology of post qualitative inquiry as well as its refusal of the human sciences’ man and his methods. Post qualitative inquiry may be useful for psychology to come and a people who do not yet exist.

KEYWORDS:

• Deleuze
• Derrida
• empiricism
• Foucault
• Guattari
• immanence
• Lyotard
• ontology
• post qualitative inquiry
• poststructuralism

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Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre

Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre is Professor in the Mary Frances Early College of Education and Affiliated Professor of both the Interdisciplinary Qualitative Research Program and the Institute for Women’s Studies at the University of Georgia. Her work focuses on poststructural theories of language and human being, immanence, and post qualitative inquiry. She’s especially interested in new empiricisms and new materialisms enabled by poststructuralism and ontologies of immanence.