Full Description
Qualitative Inquiry at a Crossroads critically reflects on the ever-changing dynamics of qualitative research in the contemporary moment. We live at a crossroads in which the spaces for critical civic discourse are narrowing, in which traditional political ideologies are now questioned: there is no utopian vision on the horizon, only fear and doubt. The moral and ethical foundations of democracy are under assault, global inequality is on the rise, facts are derided as 'fake news'—an uncertain future stands at our door.
Premised on the belief that our troubled times call for a critical inquiry that matters—a discourse committed to a politics of resistance, a politics of possibility—leading international contributors from the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Spain, Norway, and Denmark present a range of perspectives, challenges, and opportunities for the field. In so doing, they wrestle with questions concerning the intersecting vectors of method, politics, and praxis. More specifically, contributors engage with issues ranging from indigenous and decolonizing methods, arts-based research, and intersectionality to debates over the research marketplace, accountability metrics, and emergent forays into post-qualitative inquiry.
Contents
Introduction
Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina
Part I: Performative Reflections
Chapter 1. Between Bodies: Queer Grief in the Anthropocene
Anne Harris and Stacy Holman Jones
Chapter 2. "I Want the World to See": Black Feminist Performance Auto/Ethnography
Wilson Okello
Chapter 3. Canvassing the Body: A Radical Relationality of Art, Body, and Vibrant Materiality
Tami Spry
Chapter 4. Intersectionality in Education Research: Methodology as Critical Inquiry and Praxis
Venus Evans-Winters and Jennifer Esposito
Part II: Philosophical Inflections
Chapter 5. Voice in the Agentic Assemblage
Lisa A. Mazzei and Alecia Youngblood Jackson
Chapter 6. Wondering in The Dark: The Generative Power of Unknowing in the Arts and In Qualitative Inquiry
Liora Bresler
Chapter 7. Virtuous Inquiry, Refusal, and Cynical Work
Aaron M. Kuntz
Chapter 8. Theorizing from the Streets: De/colonizing, Contemplative, and Creative Approaches in Consideration of Quality in Arts-Based Qualitative Research
Kakali Bhattacharya
Chapter 9. Stay Human: Can We Be Human After Posthumanism
Svend Brinkmann
Section III: Political Interventions
Chapter 10. Resisting the Commodified Researcher Self: Interrogating the Data Doubles We Create for Ourselves when Buying and Selling Our Research Products in the Research Marketplace
Julianne Cheek
Chapter 11. Contesting Accountability Metrics in Troubled Times Through Communicative Methodology
Aitor Gómez González
Chapter 12. Seduction and Desire: The Power of Spectacle
Bronwyn Davies
Chapter 13. Stitching Tattered Cloth: Reflections on Social Justice and Qualitative Inquiry in Turbulent Times
Karen M. Staller
Notes on Contributors
