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Abstract
This article is an investigation of our mentoring relationship in the context of philosophically and theoretically informed qualitative research over the past several years. Specifically, we focus on our work as qualitative researchers from a variety of theoretical and philosophical standpoints. In this article, we think with two theoretical concepts: micro-ethical events and care as a world-making practice along with data from our years-long mentoring relationship. As a result, we describe how we discovered that it is the moments which initially seemed mundane which were most significant in mentoring. We name this contribution as mundane significance, describing three insights for the field of cultural studies: care-full reading practices, making the invisible, visible, and challenging mentor and mentee binaries.
期刊介绍:
The mandate for this interdisciplinary, international journal is to move methods talk in cultural studies to the forefront, into the regions of moral, ethical and political discourse. The commitment to imagine a more democratic society has been sa guiding feature of cultural studies from the very beginnnig. Contributors to this journal understand that the discourses of a critical, moral methodology are basic to any effort to re-engage the promise of the social sciences and the humanities for democracy in the 21st Century. We seek works that connect critical emanicipatory theories to new forms of social justice and democratic practice are encouraged.