NASSS 2018 Conference - Vancouver

In response to the recent interest in the turn to new materialisms and posthumanism within sport and physical culture research, this session will consider how this turn can inform new ways of collecting and analyzing (qualitative) empirical material that accounts for the material as well the social world. More specifically, papers within this session should focus on post-qualitative inquiry (PQI) that, to quote Giardina (2017), turns "away from 'methodology'" (p. 262) to challenge the ontology and epistemology of humanist research. What does it mean to turn away from methodology? What does research that leans into the "ontological turn" look like? What is the role of theory in PQI? We invite contributions that consider these questions, as well as the role of PQI in theory and in practice within the sociology of sport. We encourage presenters to consider the role of "sensory data" and the emplaced, sensual, entangled, and physical nature of new materialist, posthumanist research.