Dwelling With Wildflowers: Qualitative Inquiry as Life-Living and Life-Giving

Kruger, Frans

Abstract

In this short piece, I reconsider qualitative inquiry based on my chance encounter with a buttonhole flower. This encounter offered me an opportunity to explore not only my relationship with vegetal life, but also how dwelling with wildflowers allows one to reconceptualize qualitative inquiry as a practice of life-living and live-giving that emerges from a logic of conviviality. Practicing qualitative inquiry as life-living and life-giving serves as a means to unmoor our practices of inquiry from the abstraction of re-presentation and the predicative logic on which this is based, and to offer instead a conceptualization of inquiry as a process of dwelling with/in the world, and in this togetherness, experience (the potential of) life.

Citation

Kruger, F. (2021). Dwelling With Wildflowers: Qualitative Inquiry as Life-Living and Life-Giving. Qualitative Inquiry, 27(6), 731-736. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420933294

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: May 13, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Jun 20, 2020
• Publication Date: Jul 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Aug 2, 2022
• Publicly Available Date: Aug 2, 2022
• Journal: Qualitative Inquiry
• Print ISSN: 1077-8004
• Electronic ISSN: 1552-7565
• Publisher: SAGE Publications
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 6
• Pages: 731-736
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800420933294
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/9581548
• Publisher URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077800420933294