The Social Life of Things in Interviews: Activating Non-Human Informants in Empirical Research
Published online on May 14, 2026
Abstract
Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
This article develops a methodological framework for leveraging the entanglement of practices and things in interviews. Our praxeological approach offers a processual heuristic for activating things as research participants. Adapting Appadurai’s The ...
This article develops a methodological framework for leveraging the entanglement of practices and things in interviews. Our praxeological approach offers a processual heuristic for activating things as research participants. Adapting Appadurai’s The ...