ABSTRACT
At the beginning of the end of the Sixth Moment it is necessary to re-engage the promise of qualitative research and interpretive ethnography as forms of radical democratic practice.2 The narrative turn in the social sciences has been taken, we have told our tales from the fi eld, and we understand today that we write culture (Brady 1998; Richardson 1998). Writing is not an innocent practice, although in the social sciences and the humanities there is only interpretation (Rinehart 1998). Nonetheless, Marx continues to remind us that we are in the business of not just interpreting but of changing the world (1983 [1888]: 158).
