Qualitative Inquiry in TransitionPasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader gathers more than 30 internationally renowned scholars in qualitative inquiry to present provocative interventions into the politics of research, philosophy of inquiry, justice matters, and writing practices.
Drawn from a decade of cutting-edge plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, these contributors and their chapters represent the leading edge of scholarship that has pushed the field forward over the last decade. Topics discussed include the research marketplace, data entanglements, the neoliberal university, Indigenous methodologies, slow research, performative ethics, intersectionality, civically engaged research, post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialisms, collaborative research, poetic inquiry, academic writing, and the future of the field. These and other topics comprise a movingrather than staticcenter to the field, one that moves across contexts and ontologies, moves between agreement and disagreement, forges new collaborations, and informs new inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to research.
Qualitative Inquiry in TransitionPasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader will be required reading for those seeking to understand where the field of qualitative inquiry has been and will look to go in the years to come.
Qualitative Inquiry in TransitionPasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader gathers more than 30 internationally-renowned scholars in qualitative inquiry present provocative interventions into the politics of research, philosophy of inquiry, justice matters, and writing practices.
Part I: Politics of Research
1. Qualitative Inquiry, Research
Marketplaces, and Neoliberalism: Adding Some +s (pluses) to our Thinking
about the Mess in Which we Find Ourselves
2. Be Careful What You Wish For:
Data Entanglements in Qualitative Research, Policy, and Neoliberal Governance
3. Feminist Poststructuralisms and the Neoliberal University
4. Intellectual
Sharecropping and the Tenure and Promotion Process; Part II: Philosophy of
Inquiry
5. Moving Forward, Pushing Back: Indigenous Methodologies in the
Academy
6. Resistance is Becoming not Possible: Philosophical Inquiry and the
Challenge of Material Change
7. Method ol o gie s that Encounter (Slowness
and) Irregular Rhythm
8. Against Lists: A Post-Manifesto for a Wild,
Ecological Creativity; Part III: Post-Qualitative Matters
9. Practices for
the New in the New Empiricisms, the New Materialisms, and Post Qualitative
Inquiry
10. Qualitative Methodology and the New Materialisms: A Little of
Dionysuss Blood?
11. Voice in the Agentic Assemblage
12. Towards a
Performative Ethics of Reciprocity
13. Stay Human: Can we be Human after
Posthumanism?; Part IV: Social Justice
14. The Power of Stories and the
Potential for Theorizing Social Justice Studies
15. Intersectionality in
Education Research: Methodology as Critical Inquiry and Praxis
16. Developing
Civically Engaged Art Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a (Post?)
Pandemic World
17. Collaborative Spirit-writing for Social Justice; Part V:
Writing Culture
18. Collaborative Autoethnography: An Ethical Approach to
Inquiry that Makes a Difference
19. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the
Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics
20. Poetic Inquiry: Transforming
Qualitative Data into Poetry
21. The Emotional Geographies of Academic
Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival; Coda
22. Empathy as a Collaborative
Act
Norman K. Denzin (1942-2023) was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 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 and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.
