Methodology-21: what do we do in the afterward?

This paper asks "after what" and situates qualitative research in the present moment in the midst of various "deaths" and "returns." With a focus on fleshing out post-qualitative research, it first sketches efforts to discipline qualitative research via standards and rubrics as a part of neoliberal govenmentality and then elaborates what post-qualitative might mean via four exemplars. The first is from Sweden, a focus on relational entangled data analysis in the feminist classroom; the next two exemplars are collaborative studies from Australia at the intersection of Western and Aboriginal knowledge systems; the final exemplar is from Egypt, a feminist post-colonial study of the women's mosque movement. The paper concludes with a call to "imagine forward" out of troubling a narrow scientificity and enacting an "after" of neoliberalism.