Abstract
This article approaches the practice of navel-gazing as a productive and experimental process, within the process of qualitative inquiry. We fold in various discourses, ideas, conversations, and experiments, encouraging the reader to explore, or gaze at, this article as they would a navel. We avoid stating a utilitarian purpose as the point is to navel-gaze. In this way, we would note to the reader that this article functions as a navel itself: it is a thing that we have, no longer need, and yet it is always there collecting lint, hiding, showing itself off, or distracting us with its folds.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 532-541 |
Number of pages | 10 |
Journal | Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 2023 |
Keywords
- evaluating inquiry
- methodologies
- methods of inquiry
- new methods and methodologies
- politics and culture
- qualitative research
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)