What can it mean to resist in these troubled times, and how can we do so
through theory? This volume presents novel ideas on how to accomplish
this in the context of the field of qualitative research. The authors
show us how we might go beyond pre-existing, systematized research
methodologies to find our way. They challenge us to go beyond facile
modes of thought and slow down any mechanistic practices of research, a
slowing that can be surprisingly generative regarding pedagogy and
knowledge production. The articles think through theories such as ones
theorizing the postcolonial for the purpose of responding to global
hegemony regarding institutional experiences of academe. They engage
with practices of new materialism and show the multiform ways in which
theory can be a companion to us in our journey of research. Further, the
articles question hold-overs from humanist and modernist thought so that
we might perform an inclusive pedagogy. Rather than falling into the
cynical view that the world is too troubled to change, this volume
presents a sound vision that we have no option but to engage in
theoretical practice, for now, there's no time not to think.