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Publication Date: 2012-Nov
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Complicity as Infiltration: The (Im)possibilities of Research with/in NSF Engineering Grants in the Age of Neoliberal Scientism
Daza, Stephanie Lynn
Qualitative Inquiry, v18 n9 p773-786 Nov 2012
In this article, I use a Spivakian decolonizing perspective to take simplification to task in two ways--the simplification of methodology with/in grants and the simplification of critique that skirts the impossibility of noncomplicitous research and researchers. I posit that "neoliberal scientism"'s grants culture is colonizing research--narrowly defining what is and is not knowledge production and who are and are not researchers. I argue that qualitative research/ers might infiltrate grants culture and then work from within to make the messiness of science visible in a way that makes "neoliberal scientism"'s "(ab)-use" of science its own undoing (Spivak, 1999). In this sense, I reframe complicity as infiltration, but recognize that complicities are neither equal nor uniform across researchers, projects, or contexts. (Contains 12 notes.)
Descriptors: Grants, Qualitative Research, Researchers, Neoliberalism, Engineering, Tenure, STEM Education, Evaluation, Partnerships in Education, College Faculty, Higher Education
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