Winner of the 2013 American Educational Studies Association's 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










Thinking With Theory In Qualitative Research pushes against traditional qualitati