“To be haunted and to write from that location, to take on the condition of what you study, is not a methodology or a consciousness you can simply adopt or adapt as a set of rules or an identity; it produces its own insights and blindnesses. Following the ghosts is about making a contact that changes you and refashions the social relations in which you are located.”
Avery Gordon, 2011. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, p. 22.
Welcome to ‘Pol 270: “Doing Qualitative Research”. Over the next 12 weeks, we’re going to learn and work together to understand how methods shape our understandings and practices of (political) research, and how our thinking in turn is structured by and generated through complex social relations. And then we’re going to try to push back, refuse, subvert, as we actively do the work of methodological practice, and develop our own explorations into what it might mean to ‘do research/methods otherwise’.
And we're going to write with and from haunted places...
Avery Gordon, 2011. Ghostly Matters: Haunting and the Sociological Imagination, p. 22.
Welcome to ‘Pol 270: “Doing Qualitative Research”. Over the next 12 weeks, we’re going to learn and work together to understand how methods shape our understandings and practices of (political) research, and how our thinking in turn is structured by and generated through complex social relations. And then we’re going to try to push back, refuse, subvert, as we actively do the work of methodological practice, and develop our own explorations into what it might mean to ‘do research/methods otherwise’.
And we're going to write with and from haunted places...
