Pujol Tarrés, Joan , GEMIGNANI, MARCO
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Qual. Psychol.
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Científica
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04/05/2026
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Drawing on Karen Barad's agential-realist perspective, this article provides conceptual tools for conducting a meta-analysis-synthesis (MAS) that accounts not only for the empirical data and interpretations of primary studies but also for their entangled contextual, procedural, reflexive, and ethical dimensions. Recognizing that scientific networks and methodological procedures are inseparable from the analysis of knowledge production, MAS centers on how published studies come to matter as a body of knowledge. Accordingly, both primary and meta-studies function as active participants in the becoming of knowledge about-and with-the phenomenon within an ongoing intra-activity. This article proposes four iterative stages for developing a MAS framework: (a) mapping the relational intra-actions that configure a specific research field; (b) analyzing the intra-action of agents involved in individual studies to identify patterns of diffraction and entanglement; (c) critically scrutinizing MAS as an apparatus, reflecting on its ethical-onto-epistemological assumptions and possibilities; and (d) exploring the performative effects that the diffractive futures enabled by MAS may have on research and public policy. This process is illustrated through a critical reading of a published meta-synthesis.
meta-analysis-synthesis; agential realism; onto-epistemology; performativity; mattering