Chapter proposals for an edited book titled Artificial Intelligence in Qualitative Inquiry: A Grimoire of Conjuring, Haunting, Trespassing, and Doubling are invited.
Artificial intelligence is often imagined expansively—as transformative, uncanny, and sometimes beyond human control. Across popular culture, AI appears as companion, oracle, monster, double, protector, threat, and worldmaker. These figures give AI human, superhuman, and quasi-magical capacities through which we explore intimacy, autonomy, creation, control, and the human condition.
Qualitative inquiry offers fertile ground for extending this imaginative range. Taking Clarke’s (1973) provocations to heart—“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible” and “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic”—this volume asks what AI might allow qualitative researchers to do, see, become, or imagine that might otherwise remain unavailable.
The book will be organized as a grimoire—a collection of practices for working with forces whose effects cannot be fully known in advance. Its four porous movements invite contributors to explore unfamiliar relations among human and machinic voices, methods, materials, and modes of knowing:
• Conjuring—generating, speculating, and building worlds
• Haunting—reaching toward absence, loss, and what remains
• Trespassing—crossing disciplinary, methodological, and epistemological boundaries
• Doubling—encountering researchers, participants, and their machinic mirrors
We welcome conceptual, empirical, experimental, arts-based, performative, poetic, multimodal, methodological, and deliberately difficult-to-classify contributions. We are especially interested in work for which experimentation is integral to the inquiry itself.
Proposals focused primarily on using AI to accelerate familiar tasks, compare conventional analyses, or demonstrate methodological efficiency are unlikely to fit. Instead, we invite contributors to ask what else qualitative inquiry might become when its methods, voices, materials, and imaginative limits are allowed to move.
Please see attached to find more information, including what and how to submit, and direct any questions and correspondence related to the book to Lorien S. Jordan and Matthew Weirick Johnson: aiqualbook@gmail.com.
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