ABSTRACT
Humans making meaning out of the meaning making of other humans: Translated plainly from the philosophical tongue of ontology and epistemology, this is the heart of what it means to be an interpretivist. Nor is the sphere of meaning making constricted only to humans' relationships with other humans. Some of the chapters in this book are explicitly devoted to either developing or reclaiming a vocabulary of resistance capable of enlarging the space for interpretive work within the social sciences. The impulse to KKV-ize he interpretive orientation-that is, to force the wild, messy intercropping of criteria and practices that is the interpretive orientation into tamed, mono-cropped rows-might very well prove fatal to what it is that makes interpretive approaches so fertile to begin with. The challenge is to discusses interpretive criteria in ways that enable human judgment, rather than in ways that disable it by erecting yet another inhuman external authority to which an epistemic community can blindly appeal.
