1st Edition

Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry Research in a Pandemic

Edited By Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina Copyright 2021
172 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

170 Pages
by Routledge

Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry critically reflects on and explores the role of qualitative research amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Against this unprecedented backdrop, it asks what research means during a global pandemic and what it means to be an academic. Leading international scholars from the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom... Read more

Introduction

Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina

Section I: Political Futures

1. The COVID-19 Pandemic is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism

Henry A. Giroux

2. Becoming Weary/Wary: Confecting Anew in a Fascist World

Aaron M. Kuntz

Section II: Performative Futures

3. Betweeners: Our Common Humanity in Repressive Times

Claudio Moreira and Marcelo Diversi

4. The Emotional Geographies of Academic Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival

Sophie Tamas, Katarina Georgaras and Maria Dabboussy

5. It is a Lonely Voice Between the Social Rebellion and the Pandemic

Cesar A. Cisneros-Puebla

6. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics

Katie Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Wyatt

Section III: Global Futures

7. Still Stumbling toward Indigenization, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: We Acknowledge the Land, Now What?

Patrick Lewis

8. Slow-Motion Activism: Performing Impossible Futures

Magdalena Kazubowski-Houston

9. Big Data, Thick Data, Digital Transformation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Why Qualitative Inquiry is More Relevant than Ever

Julianne Cheek

Coda. Sublime Resistance: Imagining Peace, Freedom, Health, Happiness, Community

John M. Johnson

Biography

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. He is the Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.