1st Edition
Qualitative Inquiry in Transition—Pasts, Presents, & Futures A Critical Reader
Qualitative Inquiry in Transition—Pasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader gathers more than 30 internationally renowned scholars in qualitative inquiry to present provocative interventions into the politics of research, philosophy of inquiry, justice matters, and writing practices.
Drawn from a decade of cutting-edge plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, these contributors and their chapters represent the leading edge of scholarship that has pushed the field forward over the last decade. Topics discussed include the research marketplace, data entanglements, the neoliberal university, Indigenous methodologies, slow research, performative ethics, intersectionality, civically engaged research, post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialisms, collaborative research, poetic inquiry, academic writing, and the future of the field. These and other topics comprise a moving—rather than static—center to the field, one that moves across contexts and ontologies, moves between agreement and disagreement, forges new collaborations, and informs new inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to research.
Qualitative Inquiry in Transition—Pasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader will be required reading for those seeking to understand where the field of qualitative inquiry has been and will look to go in the years to come.
Part I: Politics of Research
1. Qualitative Inquiry, Research Marketplaces, and Neoliberalism: Adding Some +s (pluses) to our Thinking about the Mess in Which we Find Ourselves
Julianne Cheek (2017)
2. Be Careful What You Wish For: Data Entanglements in Qualitative Research, Policy, and Neoliberal Governance
Harry Torrance (2017)
3. Feminist Poststructuralisms and the Neoliberal University
Bronwyn Davies, Margaret Somerville, & Lise Claiborne (2017)
4. Intellectual Sharecropping and the Tenure and Promotion Process
Joy Pierce (2023)
Part II: Philosophy of Inquiry
5. Moving Forward, Pushing Back: Indigenous Methodologies in the Academy
Margaret Kovach (2016)
6. Resistance is Becoming not Possible: Philosophical Inquiry and the Challenge of Material Change
Aaron M. Kuntz (2020)
7. Method ol o gie s …that Encounter (Slowness and) Irregular Rhythm
Mirka Koro and Timothy Wells (2018)
8. Against Lists: A Post-Manifesto for a Wild, Ecological Creativity
Daniel X. Harris and Stacy Holman Jones (2022)
Part III: Post-Qualitative Matters
9. Practices for the ‘New’ in the New Empiricisms, the New Materialisms, and Post Qualitative Inquiry
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre (2015)
10. Qualitative Methodology and the New Materialisms: ‘A Little of Dionysus’s Blood?’
Maggie MacLure (2017)
11. Voice in the Agentic Assemblage
Lisa A. Mazzei and Alecia Youngblood Jackson (2019)
12. Towards a Performative Ethics of Reciprocity
Virginie Magnat (2020)
13. Stay Human: Can we be Human after Posthumanism?
Svend Brinkmann (2019)
Part IV: Social Justice
14. The Power of Stories and the Potential for Theorizing Social Justice Studies
Kathy Charmaz (2016)
15. Intersectionality in Education Research: Methodology as Critical Inquiry and Praxis
Venus Evans-Winters and Jennifer Esposito (2019)
16. Developing Civically Engaged Art Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a (Post?) Pandemic World
Sara Scott Shields and Rachel Fendler (2023)
17. Collaborative Spirit-writing for Social Justice
Bryant Keith Alexander and Mary E. Weems (2022)
Part V: Writing Culture
18. Collaborative Autoethnography: An Ethical Approach to Inquiry that Makes a Difference
Judith C. Lapadat (2018)
19. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics
Katie Fitzpatrick and Jonathan Wyatt (2021)
20. Poetic Inquiry: Transforming Qualitative Data into Poetry
Valerie J. Janesick (2016)
21. The Emotional Geographies of Academic Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival
Sophie Tamas, Katarina Georgaras, and Maria Dabboussy (2021)
Coda
22. Empathy as a Collaborative Act
Ronald J. Pelias (2022)
Biography
Norman K. Denzin (1942-2023) was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Founding Director 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 and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
