Resonant experience in emergent events of analysis

Abstract

Theory, and the traditions of thought available and known to us,give shape to what we are able to notice of our field of inquiry,and so also of our practice of research. Building on G. H. Mead’sPhilosophy of the Present (1932), this paper draws attention to‘emergent events’ of analysis when working abductively withinterview data in a process of re-experiencing interview materialthrough listening to audio recordings of qualitative researchinterviews. The paper presents an emergent event of analysis inwhich the theoretical argument of (the researcher’s) Self as aprocess of becoming in responsive relating to (case study) othersis made generative as a dynamic in and of case study analysis.Using a case of being a newcomer (to research communities)researching newcomer innovation (of others), ‘resonantexperience’ is illustrated as a heuristic in interview analysis tosimultaneously deconstruct/reconstruct dichotomous conceptcategories known to organize the research literature in a field.