1st Edition

Voice in Qualitative Inquiry Challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research

Edited By Alecia Y Jackson, Lisa A Mazzei Copyright 2009
264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, "What does it mean to work the limits of voice?" from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice.... Read more

Introduction: The Limit of Voice  Part 1: Straining Notions of Voice  1. Against Empathy, Voice, and Authenticity 2. Indigenous Voice, Community, and Epistemic Violence: The Ethnographer's ‘Interests’ and What ‘Interests’ the Ethnographer  3. An Impossibly Full Voice  4. Voicing Objections  5. "Soft ears" and Hard Topics: Race, Disciplinarity, and Voice in Higher Education  6. Broken Voices, Dirty Words: On the Productive Insufficiency of Voice  Part 2: Transgressive Voices: Productive Practices  7. The Problem of Speaking for Others  8. Forays Into the Mist: Violences, Voices, Vignettes  9. 'What Am I Doing When I Speak Of This Present?' Voice, Power, and Desire In Truth-Telling  10. Researching and Representing Teacher Voice(s): A Reader Response Approach  11. Life in Kings Cross: A Play of Voices  Afterword: Decentering Voice in Qualitative Inquiry

Biography

Lisa A. Mazzei, Ph.D. is Research Fellow

at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Ph.D.is Assistant Professor

at Appalachian State University, US

 

List of contributors

Patti Lather, The Ohio State University

Michael Marker, University of British Columbus

Erica McWilliam, Karen Dooley, Felicity McArdle and Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan, Queensland University of Technology

Roland Mitchell, Louisiana State University

Maggie MacLure, Manchester Metropolitan University

Linda Martín Alcoff, Syracuse University

Lubna Nazir Chaudhry, State University of New York

Becky M. Atkinson and Jerry Rosiek, University of Alabama and University of Oregon respectively

Bronwyn Davies, University of Western Sydney

Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre, University of Georgia