TY - BOOK ID - 64709492 TI - Qualitative inquiry, cartography, and the promise of material change PY - 2019 SN - 9781138042780 1138042781 9781138042834 1138042838 9781315173412 1315173417 9781351700771 1351700774 9781351700757 1351700758 9781351700764 1351700766 PB - London New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - Inquiry (Theory of knowledge) KW - Materialism KW - Critical theory KW - Social change KW - #SBIB:303H30 KW - #SBIB:303H12 KW - Knowledge, Theory of KW - Change, Social KW - Cultural change KW - Cultural transformation KW - Societal change KW - Socio-cultural change KW - Social history KW - Social evolution KW - Critical social theory KW - Critical theory (Philosophy) KW - Critical theory (Sociology) KW - Negative philosophy KW - Criticism (Philosophy) KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - Rationalism KW - Sociology KW - Frankfurt school of sociology KW - Socialism KW - Physicalism KW - Animism KW - Philosophy KW - Positivism KW - Dualism KW - Idealism KW - Mechanism (Philosophy) KW - Monism KW - Realism KW - Kwalitatieve methoden: algemeen KW - Methoden en technieken: sociale wetenschappen UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:64709492 AB - What are the problems to which materialist methodologies are posed as a solution? In this book, Aaron M. Kuntz maps the impact of materialism on contemporary practices of inquiry in education and the social sciences. Through this work, the author challenges readers to consider inquiry as a mode of ethically engaged citizenship with implications for resisting our contemporary moment towards a more equitable future.The author engages his own inquiry as radical cartographic work, drawing forth distinctions between dialectical and dialogic formations of materialism in order to develop what he terms relational materialism—an engaged orientation to living that dwells in the entangled relations of affirmative ethics and enduring practices of resistance and refusal. Drawing upon examples from higher education, contemporary culture, and normative assumptions of governance, the author considers the potential that we might generate living alternatives to the contemporary status quo; daily practices no longer dependent on binary division or standardized calculations of what "matters." As such, the author advocates for practices of virtuous inquiry (future-orientated ethical assertions of what one should do) that orient inquiry as materially ethical activity.Despite the often-overwhelming state of inequity and exploitation in our contemporary world, Kuntz generates an affirmative ethical stance that we can become relationally different, guided by a virtuous determination to articulate inquiry as the cartographic work of disruption and imagination. This text will prove valuable to graduate students and faculty who take inquiry seriously and seek the means to understand their work as engaged in the necessary challenge for material change. (Provided by publisher) ER -