The Hug: An Affective Material Encounter With a Productive Pedagogy of Qualitative Inquiry

Abstract

My doctoral study was focussed on women’s activities and practices in community organizations. In this paper, I revisit “the hug,” a fieldwork event (understood in the Deleuzian sense as something—a situation or a problem—that provokes thought) recreating it as a pedagogical event in relation to emerging Deleuzo–Guattarian and new materialist qualitative (QI) pedagogies. The effect of the hug event demonstrates the potential productivity of emerging QI pedagogies, and implications for what intra-active QI pedagogies might produce for researchers, and the research community at large.