"This book looks towards ways to navigate the uncertainties of conducting qualitative inquiry in a pandemic world - where travel isn't possible and the word 'collaborative' has taken on multiple new meanings, especially for researchers. It asks the fundamental question: is qualitative inquiry still relevant in this landscape? Featuring contributions from scholars from Chile, Norway, Canada, Australia and the UK in addition to the US, this book will be suitable for all students and scholars of qualitativeinquiry"--
Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry critically reflects on and explores the role of qualitative research amidst the global COVID-19 pandemic. Against this unprecedented backdrop, it asks what research means during a global pandemic and what it means to be an academic.
Leading international scholars from the United States, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom wrestle with the changing dynamics of research in pandemic times. Collectively and collaboratively, contributors call for a critical, performative, social justice inquiry directed at the multiple crises of our historical presenta rethinking of where we have been, and, critically, where we are going. More specifically, contributors focus on such topics as: the emotional geographies of academic writing; assaults on science and truth; pedagogies of the imagination; Indigenization and reconciliation; the search for our common humanity; and the relevance of qualitative inquiry in an era of big data and digital transformation.
Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry
is a must-read for faculty and students alike who are interested in imagining new ways to collaborate, to engage in research and activism, and represent and intervene into social life in pandemic times.
This book looks towards ways to navigate the uncertainties of conducting qualitative inquiry in a pandemic world - where travel isn't possible and the word 'collaborative' has taken on multiple new meanings, especially for researchers. It asks the fundamental question: is qualitative inquiry still relevant in this landscape?
Introduction; Section I: Political Futures
1. The COVID-19 Pandemic is
Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism
2. Becoming Weary/Wary: Confecting Anew
in a Fascist World; Section II: Performative Futures
3. Betweeners: Our
Common Humanity in Repressive Times
4. The Emotional Geographies of Academic
Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival
5. It is a Lonely Voice Between the
Social Rebellion and the Pandemic
6. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the
Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics; Section III: Global Futures
7.
Still Stumbling toward Indigenization, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: We
Acknowledge the land, Now What?
8. Slow-Motion Activism: Performing
Impossible Futures
9. Big Data, Thick Data, Digital Transformation, and the
Fourth Industrial Revolution: Why Qualitative Inquiry is More Relevant than
Ever Coda. Sublime Resistance: Imagining Peace, Freedom, Health, Happiness,
Community
Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder 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. He is the Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
