In this article, we discuss challenges and implications of thinking with new materialisms and the Deleuzian philosophy of immanence in qualitative case studies. The aim is to establish a terrain and language of “minor case studies.” Deleuze denies two-world ontologies and the ontologically status of single bodies, emphasizing instead how assemblages of human and non-human bodies together produce the world. In this terrain, cases are not objects of inquiry, but life-giving forces that create movement. This in turn changes the premises for how we can approach and explore cases. Rather than represent, comment and explain what cases are, we illustrate how a case-assemblage creates possibilities for event-based thinking regarding interesting phenomena (cases), and how these cases are twisted, stretched and pulled out of a conventional case study design. We conclude by discussing epistemological consequences of new materialist ontology.

在本文中，我们将在定性案例研究中讨论新唯物主义和德鲁兹内在哲学的挑战和启示。目的是建立“小型案例研究”的地形和语言。德勒兹否认了两个世界的本体论和单身的本体论地位，而是强调了人类和非人体的集合如何共同产生世界。在这片土地上，案件不是追问的对象，而是赋予生命力的生命。反过来，这改变了我们处理和探索案例的前提。我们没有说明，评论和解释什么是案例，而是说明了案例组合如何为有关有趣现象（案例）的基于事件的思考创造了可能性，以及如何将这些案例扭曲，延伸和拉出常规案例研究设计。