ABSTRACT

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book discusses the debates over issues of post-qualitative research, new materialism, ‘data,’ public policy, research ethics, public scholarship, and the corporate university in the neoliberal age. It explores the potency of new materialist thought and its implications for qualitative or ‘post-qualitative’ methodology. The book examines in conversation over the relationship between data and neoliberalism, including ways to resist the privileging of ‘BIG data’ for “the less and little.” It addresses data entanglements in qualitative research, policy, and neoliberal governance. The book presents a conversation with each other about what new modes of thought and being have emerged from feminist poststructuralist thought and how these modes of thought and being are positioned within the neoliberal university. It deals with a call to arms for public intellectualism and activism to retake the public in public university and forge a new way forward.