| Summary: | 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’s
Philosophy of the Present (1932), this paper draws attention to
‘emergent events’ of analysis when working abductively with
interview data in a process of re-experiencing interview material
through listening to audio recordings of qualitative research
interviews. The paper presents an emergent event of analysis in
which the theoretical argument of (the researcher’s) Self as a
process of becoming in responsive relating to (case study) others
is 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), ‘resonant
experience’ is illustrated as a heuristic in interview analysis to
simultaneously deconstruct/reconstruct dichotomous concept
categories known to organize the research literature in a field.
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