ABSTRACT

In this critical reader, the best writing of two dozen key figures in qualitative research is gathered together to help students to identify emerging themes in the field and the latest thinking of the leaders in qualitative inquiry. These groundbreaking articles are pulled from a decade of social justice-focused plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. These are the ideas that have helped shape the landscape of the field over the past decade. This work-brings together the latest work of 25 leading figures in qualitative research from 4 continents;-addresses the central themes of the field over the past decade in theory, methodology, politics, and interventions;-includes contextualizing essays by the volume editors, who direct the Congress.

chapter 1|30 pages

Introduction

part I|80 pages

Philosophy of Inquiry

chapter 4|15 pages

Evidence

A Critical Realist Perspective for Qualitative Research

part II|102 pages

Politics of Evidence/Politics of Research

chapter 6|14 pages

The Politics of Evidence

chapter 7|25 pages

Building Confidence in Qualitative Research

Engaging the Demands of Policy

chapter 8|11 pages

In the Name of Human Rights

I Say (How) You (Should) Speak (Before I Listen) 1

chapter 10|8 pages

"I Read the News Today, Oh Boy ..."

The War on Public Workers 1

part III|126 pages

Methodological Imperatives

chapter 13|19 pages

Remix Cultures, Remix Methods

Reframing Qualitative Inquiry for Social Media Contexts

chapter 14|11 pages

Dangerous Ethnography

chapter 15|16 pages

Performative Writing

The Ethics of Representation in Form and Body

chapter 16|18 pages

Learning to Remember the Things We've Learned to Forget

Endarkened Feminisms and the Sacred Nature of Research

chapter 18|19 pages

The Death of a Cow

part IV|74 pages

Indigenous & Decolonizing Interventions

chapter 19|23 pages

Choosing the Margins

The Role of Research in Indigenous Struggles for Social Justice

chapter 20|15 pages

Thinking Through Theory

Contemplating Indigenous Situated Research and Policy

chapter 22|19 pages

Freeing Ourselves

An Indigenous Response to Neo-Colonial Dominance in Research, Classrooms, Schools, and Education Systems

part |18 pages

Coda

chapter 23|16 pages

Are You Serious?

Playing, Performing, and Producing an Academic Self