Post Qualitative Inquiry, the Refusal of Method, and the Risk of the New

Abstract

This article is a slight revision of a keynote lecture presented at the 15th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in Illinois in 2019. It argues that to experiment and create the “new” in post qualitative, post humanist, and other “new” forms of inquiry invented for the 21st century, social science researchers may well need to refuse conventional humanist social science research methodologies created for the problems of previous centuries.