Non Serviam Non Sequitur: Joyce’s “Sequentiality of Improbable Possibles”

Conley, Tim

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“…It is here that Finnegans Wake becomes an inspiration for social inquiry as craft-working on wood that doesn't always yield. Through Joyce's extraordinary endeavour of articulating beginnings that don't quite get off to a start, endings that recirculate, and temporary islands of communication that do not quite build up to a plot, he forces a different way of paying attention (Conley, 2011). Less 'pattern spotting' (Shotter, 2014b), which forces the stability and continuity of a 'plot' on an unruly tangle of speech.…”

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Eavesdropping: The craft of social inquiry

Russi¹

2021

J Theory Soc Behav

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This article is an exploration of John Shotter's suggestion to approach social inquiry as a 'craft'. To take this suggestion seriously calls for making visible the specific 'skills' that conjure social inquiry into being, as craft.For this reason, the article presents small vignettesdrawn from the author's practice of supervision of researcher-practitioners-that elucidate some of the turbulent passages that social researchers learn to negotiate, as they 'acrobatically' stretch themselves to eavesdrop on the messy trails of world-making activity they are thrown into, as they participate in a social milieu. From waiting at awkward thresholds that do not announce an agenda; to approaching mis-takes as occasions for bringing experience to articulation; to registering the pregnancy of silences that meet language at its edge. Just like Joyce's masterpiece Finnegans Wake brings into visibility the work that readers must perform to engage with its messy text, so this article argues that social inquiry as craft involves becoming skilled in various heuristic moves, through which social worlds can be listened into articulation.

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Section: Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Eavesdropping: The craft of social inquiry

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2021

J Theory Soc Behav

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Non Serviam Non Sequitur: Joyce’s “Sequentiality of Improbable Possibles”

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