Standing at One’s Post: Post-Qualitative Inquiry as Ethical Enactment

Abstract

In this article, I advocate for a reading of the “post” as a type of watchful cartographic practice that bears productive similarity to Foucault’s project of building a “history of the present.” I then consider the implications of such mapping practices for post-qualitative inquiry, which I understand as a type of ethical enactment desperately needed given the inequities and systems of exploitation that govern our contemporary moment. I end with a call for post-qualitative inquirers to articulate an overt ethical orientation toward change.