Deleuze and Research Methodologies
Edited by Rebecca Coleman, Jessica Ringrose
Deleuzian thinking is having a significant impact on research practices in the Social Sciences not least because one of its key implications is the demand to break down the false divide between theory and practice. This book brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.
Key features- Contributors from fields throughout the social sciences demonstrate how engaging with Deleuze’s work is reshaping their research processQuestions the relationship between theory and methodology
- Explores the conditions under which empirical research is conducted
- Considers the effects/affects of research
Alecia Youngblood Jackson • Anna Hickey-Moody • Carol Taylor • David Mellor • David R. Cole • Emma Renold • Jamie Lorimer • Jessica Ringrose • Lisa A. Mazzei • Maggie MacLure • Mindy Blaise • Rebecca Coleman • Sarah Dyke • Silvia M. Grinberg
Introduction: Deleuze and Research Methodologies, Rebecca Coleman and Jessica Ringrose
1. Deleuze and Guatarri in the Nursery: Towards an Ethnographic Multi-Sensory Mapping of Gendered Bodies and Becomings, Emma Renold and David Mellor
2. Mobile Sections and Flowing Matter in Participant-Generated Video: Exploring a Deleuzian Approach to Visual Sociology, Carol A. Taylor
3. More-Than-Human Visual Analysis: Witnessing and Evoking Affect in Human-Nonhuman Interactions, Jamie Lorimer
4. Affect as Method: Feelings, Aesthetics and Affective Pedagogy, Anna Hickey-Moody
5. Desire Undone: Productions of Privilege, Power, and Voice, Lisa A. Mazzei
6. Data-as-Machine: A Deleuzian Becoming, Alecia Youngblood Jackson
7. Looking and Desiring Machines: A Feminist Deleuzian Mapping of Bodies and Affect, Jessica Ringrose and Rebecca Coleman
8. Disrupting ‘Anorexia Nervosa’: An Ethnography of the Deleuzian Event, Sarah Dyke
9. Classification or Wonder? Coding as an Analytic Practice in Qualitative Research, Maggie MacLure
10. Activating Micropolitical Practices in the Early Years: (Re)assembling Bodies and Participant Observations, Mindy Blaise
11. Researching Pedagogical Apparatus (Dispotifs): An Ethnography of the Molar, Molecular and Desire in Contexts of Extreme Urban Poverty, Silvia M. Grinberg
12. Lost in Data Space: Using Nomadic Analysis to Perform Social Science, David R. Cole
Notes on contributors
Index.
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Deleuze and Research Methodologies, edited by Rebecca Coleman and Jessica Ringrose, succeeds in three ways. Firstly, it offers a space where Deleuzian thinking and methodological questions intersect. This provides a fresh contribution to the literature on research methodologies. Secondly … the articles in the book invite the researcher to reconsider concepts and techniques such as data, survey, mapping, performativity, power and pedagogy in the context of visual production. Thirdly, through the overarching conceptual discussions and the individual empirical processes of the contributors, the book offers new perspectives on well-used but nevertheless knotty Deleuzian concepts such as ‘becoming’, ‘nomadic’, ‘affect’ and ‘desire’.
Not only does this book succeed to instil Deleuze’s philosophy into social science research methodology but it also achieves something even more intriguing and unexpected: it brings back into current Deleuzian scholarship the vanishing social, material and animal liveliness of Deleuze’s own philosophy – a fine toolbox for any social researcher to draw on.
