Inquiry as Divination

MacLure, Maggie (2021) Inquiry as Divination. Qualitative Inquiry, 27 (5). pp. 502-511. ISSN 1077-8004

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Abstract

The article proposes divination as a speculative method for inquiry, drawing primarily on the work of Deleuze. Divinatory practices would be diagrammatic, ambulant, cryptic, affirmative, and experimental. They would look for strange relations between the one and the many, in the shifting totality of the cosmos, and entertain relations that are always to some extent inhuman. The article offers an example from an ethnographic study of classroom interaction. It suggests that divination has the power to import “catastrophe” into the frameworks and methods of research, in the hope of clearing a space for creativity and unforeseen outcomes.

Item Type:	Article
Peer-reviewed:	Yes
Date Deposited:	08 Jul 2020 11:20
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Additional Information:	This is an Open Access article published in Qualitative Inquiry, published by Sage and copyright The Author.
Divisions:
Subject terms:	speculative method, post-qualitative research methodology, Deleuze, early childhood, hermetic philosophy, Social Sciences Methods, 1301 Education Systems, 1303 Specialist Studies in Education, 1608 Sociology
URI:	https://e-space.mmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/626120
DOI:	https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420939124
ISSN	1077-8004
e-ISSN	1552-7565

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