Full Description
Critical approaches to qualitative research have made a significant impact on research practice over the past decade. This comprehensive volume of contemporary, original articles places this trend in its historical context, describes the current landscape of critical work, and considers the future of this turn. The book-includes contributions from some of the leading qualitative researchers on three continents;-consists of big-picture articles that describe the dimensions of this research tradition;-situates critical qualitative inquiry in the overall development and landscape of qualitative research.
Contents
Introduction: Engaging Critical Qualitative Science; I: Foundations of Critical Qualitative Inquiry; 1: What Is Critical Qualitative Inquiry?; 2: Foundational Commitments, Intergenerational Knowledge Production, and New Trajectories; 3: Counter-colonial Research Methodologies Drawing upon Postcolonial Critique and Indigenous Onto-Epistemologies; II: Contemporary Critical Qualitative Inquiry; 4: The "New Materialisms"; 5: Critical and Poststructural Forms of Inquiry; 6: Centering Critical Inquiry; 7: Envisioning a Politically Activist Critical Social Science; III: Imagining Critical Qualitative Research Futures; 8: Critical Qualitative Research in the 21st Century; 9: Vital Illusions, Images, and Education; 10: Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes; 11: Investigating Research Power
