Deleuze and Research Methodologies - (Deleuze Connections) by Rebecca Coleman & Jessica Ringrose (Paperback)

About the Book

Brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.

Book Synopsis

Deleuzian thinking is having a significant impact on research practices in the Social Sciences, particularly because it breaks down the false divide between theory and practice. This book brings together international academics from a range of Social Science and Humanities disciplines to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research.

From the Back Cover

'Not only does this book succeed in instilling Deleuze's philosophy into social science research methodology but it also achieves something even more intriguing and unexpected: it brings back into current Deleuzian scholarship the vanishing social, material and animal liveliness of Deleuze's own philosophy - a fine toolbox for any social researcher to draw on.' Dimitris Papadopoulos, Reader in Sociology and Organisation, University of Leicester An examination of how Deleuze's work is shaping qualitative empirical research methodologies Deleuzian thinking is having a significant impact on research practices in the social sciences and humanities not least because one of its key implications is the demand to break down the false divide between theory and practice. This anthology brings together thirteen original chapters by international academics from a range of disciplines - including sociology, education, geography, media, cultural and childhood studies - to reflect on how Deleuze's philosophy is opening up and shaping methodologies and practices of empirical research. Key Features - The book emphasises doing research - Each contributor demonstrates how engaging with Deleuze's work is re-shaping their research process - New questions are asked about the relationship between theory and methodology - The processes and practices of empirical research are explored Rebecca Coleman is a Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Jessica Ringrose is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education at the University of London. Cover design: [EUP logo] www.euppublishing.com

Review Quotes

Deleuze and Research Methodologies, edited by Rebecca Coleman and Jessica Ringrose, succeeds in three ways. Firstly, it offers a space where Deleuzian thinking and methodological questions intersect. This provides a fresh contribution to the literature on research methodologies. Secondly ... the articles in the book invite the researcher to reconsider concepts and techniques such as data, survey, mapping, performativity, power and pedagogy in the context of visual production. Thirdly, through the overarching conceptual discussions and the individual empirical processes of the contributors, the book offers new perspectives on well-used but nevertheless knotty Deleuzian concepts such as 'becoming', 'nomadic', 'affect' and 'desire'.--Pelin Tan, Mardin Artuklu University, Turkey "Visual Studies"

Not only does this book succeed to instil Deleuze's philosophy into social science research methodology but it also achieves something even more intriguing and unexpected: it brings back into current Deleuzian scholarship the vanishing social, material and animal liveliness of Deleuze's own philosophy - a fine toolbox for any social researcher to draw on.--Dimitris Papadopoulos, Reader in Sociology and Organisation, University of Leicester

About the Author

Rebecca Coleman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London where her research focuses on temporality and the future, and surface studies. She has previously published The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience (Manchester University Press, 2009), an empirical study that develops a Deleuzian argument about how teenage girls experience their bodies through images. She has recently finished a book called Transforming Images: Screens, Affect, Futures (Routledge).

Jessica Ringrose is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Education, University of London. She is interested in feminist psychosocial and poststructural theories and methodologies. She has researched and written extensively on gender and sexual identities among teens, exploring issues such as uses of digital technology, heterosexualized aggression in peer cultures and cyber-bullying. She has two new books: Gendered Regulations and Resistances in Education (Routledge), and Postfeminist Education? Girls and the Sexual Politics of Schooling (Routledge).