Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research

Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research by Jackson, Alecia Youngblood. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780415781008.

Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Associations Critics Choice Award! Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research shows how to use various philosophical concepts in practices of inquiry; effectively opening up the process of data analysis in qualitative research. It uses a common data set and utilizes various theoretical perspectives through which to view the data. It challenges qualitative researchers to use theory to accomplish a rigorous, analytic reading of qualitative data. "Plugging in" the theory and the data produces a variety of readings applying various theorists and their concepts, including: Derrida - Deconstruction

Spivak - Postcolonial Marginality

Foucault - Power/Knowledge

Butler - Performativity

Deleuze - Desire

Barad - Material Intra-activity