What is Qualitative Research? – Disruptive and Socially Just
The Death of Data in Neoliberal Times
Norman K. Denzin
Denzin, N. K. (2019) ‘The Death of Data in Neoliberal Times’, Qualitative Inquiry, Vol 25 (8), pp. 721 – 724. doi: 10.1177/1077800419847501journals.sagepub.com/home/qix (Accessed: 18th November 2021)
- ‘A disruptive politics of representation is the focus, crafting works which move persons and communities to action. They are emphasizing the political and moral consequences of the narrow views of sciences that are embedded in the SBR (science-based research) movement.’
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- ‘All claims to universal truth: ‘mask particular interests in local, cultural and political struggles’. (Richardson, 2000, p.928)’
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- ‘We write in ways that evoke experience in the world. We write stories that can be used, stories that can be trusted, and stories that can change the world.’
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- ‘We are, after William James (1912), radical empiricists. That is, we only deal with materials that can be drawn from and are based in experience: performances, emotions, perceptions, feelings, actions. Experience cannot be quantified, counted, or turned into a thing.’
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- ‘Experience, James reminds us, can never be reduced to a stream of data or to something called data.’
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