ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the problem of binary division and the ease with which such manufactured dualities play out in our inquiry practices. It discusses the legacy of negative critique and inquiry work resulting in the formation of research as the incessant assertion of problems with existing solutions. The chapter examines the creative capacity to enact a type of relationally engaged citizenship that foregrounds truth-telling as a means of political engagement and change. It lies discusses the question of what is to become of educational and social science inquiry within the emerging context of materialism and legacy of negative critique. The chapter focuses on the hope of relational qualitative inquiry practices as radical cartographies of truth-telling—the work of understanding the limits of our contemporary world in order to conceive of what might be otherwise in the future.
