ABSTRACT
Post qualitative inquiry doesn’t have pre-existing methods of data collection like interviewing and observation that begin with the humanist subject. In this chapter, the author presents her first conference paper about post qualitative inquiry at the Congress. Post qualitative inquiry is not another version of qualitative methodology, and it’s not qualitative methodology with a twist. Post qualitative inquiry doesn’t have pre-existing methods of data analysis like coding data or thematic analysis in which themes somehow miraculously emerge from the data. It refuses representationalist logic that relies on a two-world ontology which assumes there is the real out there and then a representation of the real in a different ontological order. For Jacques Derrida, a thinker with a method has already decided how to proceed and is simply a functionary of the method, not a thinker.
