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Perturbing possibilities in the postqualitative turn: lessons from Taoism (道) and <italic>Ubuntu</italic>.
- Source :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE); Jul2018, Vol. 31 Issue 6, p504-519, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Recognizing cognitive imperialism in the emerging postqualitative regime, we propose a hesitation, a perturbation to think the other-than-ness of the west. Asserting the postqualitative regime as west reinforces hegemonic epistemological violence; we look to the East and Africa - progenitors of the west-termed postqualitative regime and seek to privilege the onto-epistemologies from which these concepts were culturally (mis)appropriated. More specifically, we explore the southern African philosophy of Ubuntu and Taoism from the East to transgress west. These oft-western denigrated indigenous philosophical concepts embody the postqualitative conceptual (mis)appropriations of entanglement, the inseparability of ontology and epistemology (onto-epistemology), and an ontological positionality of immanence - interpenetration - impermanence. Re-conceptualizing the postqualitative regime, we offer a <italic>turn to</italic> non-western indigenous ontologies illuminating African and Eastern philosophies pregnant with multiple possibilities for living-thinking-being ourselves, postqualitative research, and the world anew. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09518398
- Volume :
- 31
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 129343539
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2017.1422289