(Re)mixing Foucault and Deleuze

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to explore further and through other examples what happens when a Foucauldian conception of power is remixed with “the theoretical toolbox of Deleuze” to address diverse notions of power in critical qualitative science inquiry. The article experiments with Foucauldian power/knowledge and the Deleuzian machine by using the metaphor of capoeira to argue that critical qualitative science can maintain its social justice focus as well as align conceptions of power with a postmodern framework. The authors illustrate how capoeira can function as a conceptual frame for shifting the onto-epistemologies of critical qualitative science inquiry.