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- Title
More-than-human methodologies in qualitative research: Listening to the Leafblower.
- Authors
Flint, Maureen A.
- Abstract
This paper explores the methodological possibilities of listening to more-than-human sounds as an entry point to critical analysis. Through attending to the sound of a leafblower as it resonates across a university campus, this article draws lines between the resonances of the leafblower, higher education, and white supremacy to explore how sounds become embedded in bodies and spaces. In addition, this article offers a methodology of listening as a process of attunement that provokes readings beyond what is immediately heard, seen, or felt. To listen to the sound of the leafblower and what it does, how it resonates is to attune to how that sound works, how it operates in the production and discourses of place. In other words, this article wonders how listening, as a methodological practice, provokes critical questions about place and space, and how sound (and particularly nonhuman or more than human sounds) functions in qualitative methodology.
- Subjects
RACISM; RESEARCH methodology; ACOUSTIC localization; CRITICAL theory; QUALITATIVE research; SOUND recordings; SOUND; LISTENING; SPACE perception
- Publication
Qualitative Research, 2022, Vol 22, Issue 4, p521
- ISSN
1468-7941
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1468794121999028