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SUMMARY:Promiscuous Methods: Eros\, Ethics\, and the Ethnographic Imaginati
 on
DESCRIPTION:Promiscuity is often associated with debauchery\, lack of inhib
 ition\, and indiscipline\, but it can also signal expansiveness and freedo
 m. Both meanings usher in anxieties around maintaining boundaries of norma
 tivity\, stability\, and knowing. I often describe my methods as promiscuo
 us to explain my research approach\, which engages with various qualitativ
 e modes of inquiry to address questions about cultural politics\, postcolo
 nialism\, transnationalism\, diaspora\, gender\, and sexuality. The promis
 cuity I enact moves beyond the use of diverse methods to triangulate data 
 and arrive at a stable\, replicable truth that matches the empiricism of q
 uantitative research. Rather\, promiscuous methods begin from a place of u
 nrestricted possibility\, attentive to the ephemeral\, relational\, and th
 e sacred in the pursuit of new knowledge. In my experience\, promiscuity h
 as been necessary to satisfy the needs of the material\, cultural\, and af
 fective conditions about which I write. Yet institutionalized expectations
  for qualitative research constrain such promiscuity. In this presentation
 \, I center the erotic as a guiding principle to show the value and promis
 e of promiscuous methodologies for transnational\, inter- and trans-discip
 linary qualitative research. The erotic emphasizes an ethic of care\, shar
 ed feelings\, embodied truths\, and the agency of researchers and our inte
 rlocutors. Focusing on my work in Ghanaian cultural politics\, gender\, se
 xuality\, and Black diaspora\, I map out how this methodological orientati
 on expands the ethnographic imagination and makes possible profound ways o
 f knowing across cultures\, disciplines\, and human experience. 
X-ALT-DESC:<p>Promiscuity is often associated with debauchery\, lack of inh
 ibition\, and indiscipline\, but it can also signal expansiveness and free
 dom. Both meanings usher in anxieties around maintaining boundaries of nor
 mativity\, stability\, and knowing. I often describe my methods as promisc
 uous to explain my research approach\, which engages with various qualitat
 ive modes of inquiry to address questions about cultural politics\, postco
 lonialism\, transnationalism\, diaspora\, gender\, and sexuality. The prom
 iscuity I enact moves beyond the use of diverse methods to triangulate dat
 a and arrive at a stable\, replicable truth that matches the empiricism of
  quantitative research. Rather\, promiscuous methods begin from a place of
  unrestricted possibility\, attentive to the ephemeral\, relational\, and 
 the sacred in the pursuit of new knowledge. In my experience\, promiscuity
  has been necessary to satisfy the needs of the material\, cultural\, and 
 affective conditions about which I write. Yet institutionalized expectatio
 ns for qualitative research constrain such promiscuity. In this presentati
 on\, I center the erotic as a guiding principle to show the value and prom
 ise of promiscuous methodologies for transnational\, inter- and trans-disc
 iplinary qualitative research. The erotic emphasizes an ethic of care\, sh
 ared feelings\, embodied truths\, and the agency of researchers and our in
 terlocutors. Focusing on my work in Ghanaian cultural politics\, gender\, 
 sexuality\, and Black diaspora\, I map out how this methodological orienta
 tion expands the ethnographic imagination and makes possible profound ways
  of knowing across cultures\, disciplines\, and human experience.&nbsp\;</
 p>
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