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Alldred, P 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5077-7286 and Fox, NJ,
2018.
Mixed methods, materialism and the micropolitics of the research-assemblage.
International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 21 (2), pp. 191-204.
ISSN 1364-5579
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Abstract
We assess the potential for mixing social research methods, based upon a materialist and micropolitical analysis of the research-assemblage and of what individual research techniques and methods do in practice. Applying a DeleuzoGuattarian toolkit of assemblages, affects and capacities, we document what happens when research methods and techniques interact with the events they wish to study. Micropolitically, many of these techniques and methods have unintended effects of specifying and aggregating events, with the consequently that the knowledge produced by social inquiry is invested with these specifications and aggregations. We argue that rather than abandoning these social research tools, we may use the micropolitical analysis to assess precisely how each method affects knowledge production, and engineer the research designs we use accordingly. This forms the justification for mixing methods that are highly aggregative or specifying with those that are less so, effectively rehabilitating methods that have often been rejected by social researchers, including surveys and experiments.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
|---|---|
| Publication Title: | International Journal of Social Research Methodology |
| Creators: | Alldred, P. and Fox, N.J. |
| Publisher: | Informa UK Limited |
| Date: | 4 March 2018 |
| Volume: | 21 |
| Number: | 2 |
| ISSN: | 1364-5579 |
| Identifiers: | Number Type 10.1080/13645579.2017.1350015 DOI 1299412 Other |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | Jonathan Gallacher |
| Date Added: | 28 Feb 2020 16:06 |
| Last Modified: | 28 Feb 2020 16:06 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/39336 |
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