Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book draws together a series of overlapping philosophical issues, each addressing the question of relational resistance and enduring potential as a very real effect of inquiry. It discusses the significance of establishing an anti-representational stance through inquiry. The book focuses on the importance of material analyses, particularly in the fields of education and research methodology. It examines the productive elements of neoMarxism and relational materialism more specifically. The book develops the notion of inquiry as radical cartography, asserting that cartographic work folds the past with the present in order to make available newly possible futures.