​What does it mean to inquire? Or to conduct inquiry? Perhaps even to inquire with? And, how are these practices distinct from the more traditionally invoked notion of research? Further, what do these things (inquiry, research) ask of us? How might we be governed by particular formations of inquiry and research?

These are the early questions that drive Kuntz’s book—questions that productively shift and change with the passing of each chapter. Through this work, Kuntz invites ethical questions of inquiry even as he sets forth an expectation for researchers to enact their projects as responsible and engaged citizens, operating amidst an increasing climate of inequality and social injustice.

​Pivotal to this text is Kuntz’s explication of inquiry as cartographic practice, set within a philosophical stance of relational materialism. In this way, Kuntz’s book speaks with and against a history of texts that examine the material implications of qualitative inquiry.

Table of Contents

Chapter One – Introduction

Chapter Two – Being/Becoming Material

Chapter Three – Knowledge & Class: Coming to Process  

Chapter Four – Truth-Telling, Inquiry, and Affirmative Ethics

Chapter Five – Relational Inquiry as Radial Cartography 

Chapter Six – Higher Education and the Government of Things

Chapter Seven – Refusal & Resistance