ABSTRACT
This chapter will transform Karen Barad’s Critical Materialism, with its articulation of intra-activity as a deconstruction of the binarial space between self and other, into a more inclusive involvement of the material context in qualitative analysis. Though situated context and rich description has been an important aspect of qualitative reporting, the way in which the context is treated in the analysis of data is left unproblematized and often mute. In this chapter, both context and materiality are critically examined. Barad’s theorizing provides a nice springboard for reconstructing context and materiality and transforming those reconstructions into inclusive, open analytic concepts useful for thinking with. To illustrate the ideas, I analyze my own autoethnographic writings of a Uganda peace project.
