ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |22 pages

Introduction: Engaging Critical Qualitative Science

Histories and Possibilities

part II|104 pages

Contemporary Critical Qualitative Inquiry

chapter 4|20 pages

The “New Materialisms”

A Thorn in the Flesh of Critical Qualitative Inquiry?

chapter 5|26 pages

Critical and Poststructural Forms of Inquiry

Social Justice Through Productive Critique

chapter 6|32 pages

Centering Critical Inquiry

Methodologies that Facilitate Critical Qualitative Research

chapter 7|24 pages

Envisioning a Politically Activist Critical Social Science

Reflections on Reciprocal Mentoring

part III|90 pages

Imagining Critical Qualitative Research Futures

chapter 8|18 pages

Critical Qualitative Research in the 21st Century

Challenges of New Technologies and the Special Problem of Ethics

chapter 11|20 pages

Investigating Research Power

Networks, Assemblages, and the Production of “Big” Social Science