Qualitative Inquiry—Past, Present, and Future: A Critical Reader 1st edition

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Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; This critical reader gathers the best writing from 25 key figures in qualitative research to help students to identify emerging themes and the latest thinking from the leaders in this field. Their groundbreaking articles are pulled from a decade of social justice-focused plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Biographical Note: Norman K. Denzin (PhD, University of Iowa) is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur's Gaze; and The Alcoholic Self. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, coeditor (with Michael D. Giardina) of nine plenary volumes from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of three book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Michael D. Giardina (PhD, University of Illinois) is an Associate Professor of Sport Management and Associate Director of the Center for Sport, Health, and Equitable Development at Florida State University. He is the author of Sport, Spectacle, and NASCAR Nation: Consumption and the Cultural Politics of Neoliberalism (Palgrave, 2011, with Joshua Newman), which received the 2012 Outstanding Book Award from the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport (NASSS) and was named to the 2012 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Titles list, and Sporting Pedagogies: Performing Culture & Identity in the Global Arena (Peter Lang, 2005), which received the 2006 Outstanding Book Award from NASSS. He is also the editor or co-editor of more than a dozen books on qualitative inquiry and interpretive research. He is the Special Issues Editor of Cultural StudiesCritical Methodologies, Editor of the Sociology of Sport Journal, and the associate director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction, Norman K. Denzin & Michael D. Giardina Section I: Philosophy of Inquiry Chapter 2: Chronotopes of human science inquiry, George Kamberelis & Greg Dimitriadis Chapter 3: Neutral science and the ethics of resistance, Clifford G. Christians Chapter 4: Evidence: A critical realist perspective for qualitative research, Joseph A. Maxwell Chapter 5: Refusing human being in humanist qualitative inquiry, Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre Section II: Politics of Evidence / Politics of Research Chapter 6: The politics of evidence, Janice M. Morse Chapter 7: Building confidence in qualitative work: Engaging the demands of policy, Harry Torrance Chapter 8: In the name of human rights: I say (how) you (should) speak (before I listen), Antje Krog Chapter 9: Educational research in the public interest, Gloria Ladson-Billings Chapter 10: I read the news today, oh boy... The war on public workers, Bud Goodall Chapter 11: Public intellectuals against the neoliberal university, Henry Giroux Section III: Methodological Imperatives Chapter 12: Interviewing and the production of the conversational self, Svend Brinkmann Chapter 13: Remix cultures, remix methods: Reframing qualitative inquiry for social media contexts, Annette Markham Chapter 14: Dangerous ethnography and utopian performatives, D. Soyini Madison Chapter 15: Performative Writing: The ethics of representation in body and form, Ronald Pelias Chapter 16: Learning to remember the things we've learned to forget: Endarkened feminisms and the sacred nature of research, Cynthia B. Dillard Chapter 17: The exquisite corpse of art-based research, Charles R. Garoian Chapter 18: The death of a cow, Jean Halley Section IV: Indigenous & Decolonizing Interventions Chapter 19: Choosing the margins: The role of research in Indigenous struggles for social justice, Linda Tuhiwai Smith Chapter 20: Thinking through theory: Contemplating Indigenous situated research and policy, Margaret Kovach Chapter 21: Indigenous researchers and epistemic violence, Cesar Cisneros Puebla Chapter 22: Freeing ourselves: An Indigenous response to neo-colonial dominance in research, classrooms, schools, and education systems, Russell Bishop Coda Chapter 23: Are you serious? Playing, performing, and producing an academic life, Laura L. Ellingson Index About the AuthorsPublisher Marketing: In this critical reader, the best writing of two dozen key figures in qualitative research are 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.

Contributor Bio:  Denzin, Norman K Norman K. Denzin is professor of sociology, cinema studies, and interpretive theory at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He was awarded the George Herbert Mead Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction. He is the author of several books, including The Alcoholic Society, Children and Their Caretakers, Hollywood Shot by Shot, Sociological Methods, and The Values of Social Science. Contributor Bio:  Giardina, Michael D Michael D. Giardina is Visiting Assistant Professor of Advertising & Cultural Studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.