ABSTRACT

Times of (post) health crisis, global unrest, and political turmoil, a reliance on conventional methods, which potentially lack radical imagination and future orientation, experimentation, and open-endedness, might not be enough. Furthermore, within the discourses of conventional qualitative inquiry, methodological subjects are often seen as overly pre-determined, singular, and static. In this paper, we approach the conceptual and practical challenges of imagining and creating speculative methodological subjects by asking, how might speculative research, including processes of radical imagination and scenario building, shape qualitative scholars’ relationships to the formation of methodological subjects and their politics. By sharing scenario-building examples and experimenting with speculative tasks, we explore methodological possibilities for ‘subjects’ and their entanglement with the lives of qualitative researchers. While collectively thinking about the methodological subject, we encountered relational, non-stable subjects that crossed bodies, sounds, affects and time-spaces.

摘要

在（后）健康危机、全球动荡和政治动荡时期，依赖传统方法可能还不够，因为传统方法可能缺乏激进的想象力和未来导向、实验和开放性。此外，在传统定性探究的话语中，方法论主题常常被认为是过度预先确定的、单一的和静态的。在本文中，我们通过询问思辨性研究（包括激进想象和情景构建的过程）如何塑造定性学者与方法论主体及其政治的关系，来应对想象和创建思辨方法论主题的概念和实践挑战。通过分享场景构建示例并尝试推测性任务，我们探索“主题”的方法论可能性以及它们与定性研究人员生活的纠缠。在集体思考方法论主题时，我们遇到了跨越身体、声音、情感和时空的关系性、不稳定的主题。