Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
In this article, I enact moves of homecoming in which I reclaim knowledge that I had forgotten or never known. Drawing on wisdom traditions from my heritage, I discuss how I inform my philosophies of inquiry that are de/colonial, Par/Des(i), and transnational. I move between dreamspaces built by utopian desires and the materiality of our existence, connecting absurdity and nonsense as modes of inquiry and as critiques of and relief from multiply interconnected structures of oppression. Tracing back to a children’s literature author in British-occupied India, I use the notions of absurdity and nonsense to reimagine qualitative research from a justice-oriented perspective. I conclude with my chosen exile from the postqualitative labeling of qualitative research to focus on ways of being that are culturally situated, relational, and justice informed.