Sonic Methodologies to Deepen and Interrupt Qualitative Research

Talk by Walter Gershon (Philadelphia, US).

Abstract

Qualitative research primarily rests on a foundation of the ocular. This is the case for how most qualitative work is conducted, whether from a more traditional or postfoundational paradigm and irrespective of how work is conceptualised and expressed. Such tendencies are also literally and figuratively seen as much in arts-based scholarship as in more recent multimodal expressions. Conceptualizing qualitative research through sounds therefore provides not only a means to wonder about the world outside of colonialist-leaning gazes and thickly described ecologies but also can serve to interrupt the theoretical constructs that undergird our scholarship.

This talk will attend to some of the ways that sounds can deepen and interrupt what qualitative research is and can do, as well as how these very understandings can do the same for our understandings of the sonic.

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