Plugging into the Umbra: Creative experimentation (in)(on) the boundaries of knowledge production in ECEC research

Fairchild, Nikki

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“…They open up possibilities for enacting different ways of knowledge making that are geopolitically informed and contest humanist understandings of relations, space, time, bodies, position, and power (Fairchild et al, 2022). Stephanie Springgay and Sarah E. Truman (2018) propose that existing methods need not be refused but that “research methods cannot be framed as a process of gathering data” (p. 204) and I have argued that “ new methods may not be required but what is required is an openness to new ways of activating and thinking methods to explore the flows within and between assemblages” (Fairchild, 2016, p. 26, emphasis in original). It is also important to consider what data are and become in feminist materialist inquiry.…”

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“…As I have developed my thinking on feminist materialism, I have pondered the idea of time and temporality and what this might mean for qualitative inquiry. I have been thinking with feminist materialism and agential realism for many years and had already been problematizing linearity from a methodological perspective both in Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) and in undisciplined and indisciplined inquiry (Fairchild, 2016(Fairchild, , 2021Fairchild et al, 2022). This led me to consider alternative ways to articulate ontic notions of time and temporality and to entangle these with feminist materialist methodologies and theory-praxis.…”

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Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

Fairchild

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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Critical feminist materialist theorizing opens up possibilities for enacting different ways of knowledge making. In this article, I connect feminist materialist inquiry with time and temporality to develop a line of inquiry to reimagine the nature of multiple future(s). Employing theorizing developed by Francesca Ferrando, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, and thinking with the concepts of Multiverse, spacetimemattering, and agential cuts, I develop the concept of feminist materialist relational time as a methodological possibility for inquiry. Using examples from my own and others’ scholarship, I propose that feminist materialist relational time articulates ways in which affirmative and transversal ethico-onto-epistemologies can reconsider power, mattering, enactment, and exclusions, creating multiple future(s) for qualitative inquiry. I argue that the entanglement of past/present/future as events and forces in flux highlights the multiplicity of temporality where past/present/future are now, then, immanent, processual, always already in the making, and formed of intra-acting bodies.

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Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

Fairchild

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…For this reason, we shall be presenting four not-yet data; they are fascinating research situations that, on the one hand, can be found in other professional practices and, on the other hand, require that the researcher lives within this shadow data, moving away from the model of humanist/rational subject and conceiving their subjectivity as emergent. This subjectivity is in a constant flux of connections and entangled with human and non-human materiality (Fairchild, 2016, 2017). We argue that this different view of subjectivity, “one who is in constant flux as connections are made, dropped and remade” (Fairchild, 2017, p. 296), should be embraced not only by qualitative researchers, but also by professionals and managers.…”

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Working within the shadow: what do we do with “not-yet” data?

Benozzo

Gherardi

2019

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the possibilities opened up by those messy, unclear and indeterminate data in research situations that may be described as being in the shadow and may as such remain in a state of vagueness and indeterminacy. Design/methodology/approach The paper draws on the extant literature on shadow organizing and post-qualitative methodologies. It focuses attention on not-yet (or shadow data) in order to ponder over what researchers do to data when they are not (yet) black-boxed as such. At the same time, it investigates what it is that not-yet data do to researchers. Findings Four types of “not-yet” data – illegible, wondrous and disorienting, hesitant and worn out – are presented and discussed. Data are illegible when a researcher is in the position of not knowing how to interpret what is in front of her/him. A second illustration is constructed around wonder, and poses the question of the feelings of surprise and disorientation that arise when facing uncanny realities. In a third situation, not-yet data are narrated as hesitation, when a participant feels conflicting desires and the researchers hesitates in interpreting. The fourth illustration depicts not-yet data as data that have been corrupted, that vanish after time or are worn out. Practical implications Not-yet data belong to researchers practice but can also be found in other professional practices which are concerned with the indeterminacy of shadowy situations. It is argued that situations like these constitute opportunities for learning and for the moral and professional development, so long as indeterminacy is kept open and a process of “slowing down” both action and interpretation is nurtured. Originality/value This paper is of value for taking the metaphor of shadow organizing further. Moreover, it represents a rare attempt to bring the vast debate on post-qualitative research/methodologies into management studies, which with very few exceptions seems to have been ignored by organization studies.

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Post-critical Framing of Methodological Inquiry and Childhoodnature

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2018

Handbook of Comparative Studies on Community Colleges and Global Counterparts

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Plugging into the Umbra: Creative experimentation (in)(on) the boundaries of knowledge production in ECEC research

Abstract: Research into Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) policy and practice in the UK Deleuze and Guattari (1987) to explore what form of life might emerge in the smooth space of the umbra.

Cited by 7 publications

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Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s): (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

Working within the shadow: what do we do with “not-yet” data?

Post-critical Framing of Methodological Inquiry and Childhoodnature

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