The collective brings together an international team of postqualitative researchers in higher education with a plethora of experience guiding and supporting colleagues, supervisors and postgraduate students in postqualitative inquiry which includes new materialist, critical posthumanist and agential realist research. This network is a response to the need to care for the more-than-human in the Anthropocene, the reconfiguration of the human in the digital age and the current push to decolonise higher education.
This Collective brings together an international group of researchers in all phases of their career and anyone else interested in Postqualitative Research (or ‘Inquiry’ in American-English). This includes Critical Posthumanist, Agential Realist and Feminist New Materialist theories and philosophies. The network is an urgent response to the need to care for those who have been categorised as ‘lesser’ humans (e.g., child, Indigenous peoples, dis/abled people) and the more-than-human (e.g., other animals, materials) in the Anthropocene, the reconfiguration of the human in the digital age, and the current push to decolonise the academy and everyday discourses.
Like an organism, Postqualitative Research/Inquiry is multiple, nomadic, and transforms and mutates in rhizomatic ways. It is a mode of refusal to be pinned down by definitions or claims to ownership by individuals.
The Collective was brought into existence through funding by the National Research Foundation of South Africa in 2021
[Grant number 129306; PI: Karin Murris]