Join the UGA Qualitative Research Program for the UGA QUAL Lab Speaker Series: Culturally disruptive research: Troubling the culture of science in qualitative methodologies presented by Dr. Lorien Jordan on Wednesday April 3rd from 12PM – 1PM. In this talk, Lorien confronts cultural responsivity as a method that can lure researchers into justifying their work by focusing on essentialized, static, and damage-centered notions of culture. Merging insights from critical theories of whiteness and colonialism, she draws on her experiences working in New Zealand, Cambodia, and the United States to illustrate how a culturally disruptive framework might open possibilities for upsetting the cultural foundations of Westernized knowledge production and the reproduction of whiteness. Lorien invites researchers to follow cultural disruption into spaces of dynamic dissonance, where epistemologies and ontologies meet at metaphysical, methodological, and physical borderlands to foreground creative, critical, and capacious knowledge generation.
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Lorien S. Jordan, Ph.D., is an assistant professor of qualitative research methods in the College of Education at the University of South Florida, Tampa. She is a critical qualitative methodologist who draws on critical theories of whiteness and colonialism, and experiment with creative, digital, and arts-based qualitative methods to interrogate and disrupt the cultural mechanisms of knowledge production. She has conducted this work in the United States, New Zealand, and Cambodia.
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