1st Edition
Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense Writing a New History
In Qualitative Inquiry in the Present Tense, contributors engage with epistemological and philosophical questions concerning the conduct of qualitative inquiry in the present moment, and especially as it relates to various understandings of writing in/as inquiry.
Topics addressed include methodological processes, questions of narrative uprootedness, relational inquiry, Indigenous ethico-onto-epistemologies, storytelling, and transformative writing forms and practices. This is a messy, often unruly collection (in the best way possible) of disparate ideas strung tightly together by literal and metaphorical questions of the research act of writing. Contributors from the United States, Australia, Canada, England, and Scotland imaginatively conceive of new qualitative futures—and how we might write ourselves there.
This evocative new book is a must-read for faculty and students alike who are interested in and engaged with questions and ideas oriented toward understanding our current historical present in qualitative research—a moment in which the field is perpetually in motion or in flux, with new theories, methods, and orientations arising, competing, and even contradicting one another.
Section I
1. The Smallness of Things: Futures in Qualitative Research
Devika Chawla
2. Healing our Inner 5th Grader in Qualitative Inquiry: How Post-intentional Phenomenology (PIP) Might Help
Mark D. Vagle, Melissa Surrette, Jess Silk, Laurie Hahn Ganser, Andrew Fiegen
Section II
3. From the Shores to the Sea: Narratives of Uprootedness and Post-qualitative Inquiry
David Lee Carlson
4. Trans-in-train: On Reading the Room and Becoming-in-relation
Daniel X. Harris
5. Cosmopraxis: Living Relational (Qualitative) Questions
Mirka Koro and Nikki Fairchild
Section III
6. Honoring Indigenous Ethico-onto-epistemologies Across (K)new Materialist, Posthumanist, and Postqualitative Inquiry
Virginie Magnat
7. Tricky Stories: Settler-academic Reflections on Anti-colonial Teaching
Sophie Tamas
8. The Task at Hand: Qualitative Inquiry in (Post?) Pandemic Times
Stacy Holman Jones
Section IV
9. From Pre-formative Writing to Trans-formative Writing: A Long and Hidden Creative Process at the Findhorn Foundation
Fiona Murray
10. Entangled Verbs: Feminist Transdisciplinary Multi-modal Art-making
Chloe Fann and Susan Naomi Nordstrom
11. Reimagining Philosophical Perspectives Concerning the Writer-subject
Marek Tesar
Coda
12. A Critical Performance Pedagogy that Matters
Norman K. Denzin
Biography
Norman K. Denzin (1942-2023) was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, 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, USA, and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
