ABSTRACT
This chapter articulates possible pathways that transdisciplinary feminist sonic understandings might otherwise attune qualitative research processes. Building on previous work about feminist sound methodologies, this chapter first provides three overarching, foundational resonances between feminisms and the sonic. These are the sonic interruption of framed masculinist linearities; the often-feminine nature of sounds such as questions of voice, listening, and silence; and the interconnected multiplicities central to many forms of feminisms, especially transdisciplinary approaches. The chapter then introduces additional three modes for conceptualizing aspects of critical transdisciplinary feminist qualitative methodologies: infinite multiphonic polyphonies, iterative (metaphorical) refractions, and liminal knowledges presented as a neither/nor of both category and closure. As this chapter suggests, the sonic does indeed hold powerful tools for critical theorizing and material practices, the resonances and reverberations between the irreducible complexities of transdisciplinary feminisms and qualitative research.
