Next year's conference, the Ninth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, is entitled 'Qualitative Inquiry Outside the Academy'. Laurel Richardson (from Ohio State) and Russell Bishop (University of Waikato Hamilton) are the keynotes and, I would speculate, are likely to be less controversial than this year's.
There is quite a discussion on Facebook about Atkinson and Delamont's keynote presentations (see 'Keynotes' post): Chris Poulos' paper, Transgressions, which concerns the process of attaining tenure, was called out by Delamont in her keynote with the faint praise of being good autoethnography that would be enhanced by 'proper' fieldwork. Chris has posted about this on his Facebook page and a number of others (including Bud Goodall) have chipped in. All very tantalising of me, given that not everyone is Chris' Facebook friend.
A final thought that's stayed with me, from Maggie MacClure's excellent paper on Friday afternoon, 'Language and Materiality in Qualitative Methodology', is her exhortation to engage with the materiality of language (as 'data'). Language is produced by the body, in all its messiness, all its unreliable affects. She talked about snot at one point: ever heard snot referred to in a scholarly paper before ? We need to engage with the base materiality of language, she argues. Traditional analysis, by contrast, she states, would 'prefer its data produced by angels'. Excellent, don't you think?
The collaborative writing group of Ken Gale, Tami Spry, Ron Pelias, Larry Russell and me (or is it '..and I'?) gave our (probably) final presentation together on Friday, in a hidden classroom in the remote outpost of the engineering department. There was a good number to witness us speak our words and shed a few tears, and we managed to get through it in the time we had. Our book has just come out.
End of 2012 blog. Thank you to those who have travelled with us via these pages. Now to acquire prone position in my office: just a few minutes' nap, please.
Jonathan
No comments:
Post a Comment