Questions for Postqualitative Inquiry: Conversations to Come

The past 40 years of leisure sciences affirms not only the urgency of diversely informed investigations of leisure phenomena but also the field's commitment to forward contributions of social relevance, methodological innovation, and insightful critique. This legacy owes a considerable debt to qualitative researchers who reimagined the paradigmatic purview and methodological possibilities for leisure scholarship. At the threshold of the next 40 years, we leverage postqualitative inquiry to pry a modest space for continued intellectual and methodological diversity. Specifically, we revisit Berbary and Boles's (2014 Berbary, L. A., & Boles, J. C. (2014). Eight reflection points: Re-visiting scaffolding for improvisational humanist qualitative inquiry. Leisure Sciences, 36(5), 401–419.[Taylor & Francis Online], [Web of Science ®] , [Google Scholar]) proposed scaffolding sous erasure (Derrida, 1974 Derrida, J. (1974). Of grammatology (G. C. Spivak Trans.). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univeristy Press. (Original work published 1967)[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) for humanist, qualitative research to explore points of departure for postqualitative inquiry. We question the implications such a departure may hold for “data,” “theory,” “analysis,” and “representation” within non-humanist onto-epistemologies of post-qualitative research. Ultimately, we argue for postqualitative research as a promising, humane, and hopeful trajectory for our future, adding to our already rich legacy.