Poststructuralism and Post Qualitative Inquiry: What Can and Must Be Thought

Abstract

St. Pierre argues that the immanent concepts and onto-epistemological arrangements of scholars we call poststructural, postmodern, posthuman, and other “posts” do not enable preexisting, conventional, humanist 20th-century social science research methodologies that are not immanent. For that reason, scholars are now inventing and teaching new approaches to inquiry based on old philosophies of immanence in which those methodologies cannot be thought or done.