Emergence, multiplicity and connection: rethinking ethical discernment in qualitative research through a rhizo-ethics approach

Numerous qualitative researchers employ the Deleuzoguattarian construct of rhizome in their work. In this paper, we consider the ethical affordances made possible by the rhizome's theoretical features to propose rhizo-ethics: an approach to ethical discernment in qualitative inquiry which engag...

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Published inInternational journal of qualitative studies in education Vol. 36; no. 8; pp. 1526 - 1540
Main Authors Facca, Danica, Kinsella, Elizabeth Anne
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Abingdon Routledge 14.09.2023
Taylor & Francis
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Subjects
Deleuze
Epistemology
Ethics
Guattari
post-structuralism
Power Structure
Qualitative Research
Research Methodology
rhizome
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Summary:Numerous qualitative researchers employ the Deleuzoguattarian construct of rhizome in their work. In this paper, we consider the ethical affordances made possible by the rhizome's theoretical features to propose rhizo-ethics: an approach to ethical discernment in qualitative inquiry which engages with the Deleuzoguattarian construct of rhizome. Across an exploration of Deleuze & Guattari's writing, educational scholarship, and further qualitative work that employs rhizomatic thought, we examine how engaging with a rhizomatic approach affords researchers the means to reconfigure research ethics hierarchies by decentralizing their position in the research context. Such a perspective generates possibilities to: acknowledge fluctuating power relations, enrich representations, embrace a relational onto-epistemology, and consider the interactions between human and nonhuman matter as ethically significant.
ISSN:0951-8398
1366-5898
DOI:10.1080/09518398.2021.1930248