This post is part of a new project for the Critical Physiotherapy Network. If you want to know more about the project, track back to this post.Connectivity is about connections. Surprising, I know, but there it is. What makes it interesting and novel as a theory is the philosophy that underpins it. Firstly it is ontological. It is about being, so naturally there is a semblance of phenomenology in the complex assemblage of ideas that underpins it. But this is not the phenomenology of Heidegger, more the later phenomenology that emphasises the importance of intersubjectivity. (For more on this idea, there is a post coming up in a few days with an interview with Jens Olesen who's … [Read more...] about Connectivity #4 – The philosophy of connectivity
Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
New article A new article has just been published in Qualitative Health Research by two authors from University of Toronto that people within the Critical Physiotherapy Network might know well. James Shaw and Ryan DeForge contributed to an edited collection on Philosophy and Physiotherapy that Barbara Gibson and I co-edited in August 2012 (full version available at the bottom of this post). Jay and Ryan's new paper is titled 'Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory' and the abstract follows and you can link to the full details of the paper here: Abstract Two issues have been central to ongoing disputes about judgments of quality in qualitative inquiry: … [Read more...] about Qualitative Inquiry and the Debate Between Hermeneutics and Critical Theory