Qualitative Inquiry in Transition-Pasts, Presents, & Futures

Qualitative Inquiry in Transition-Pasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader gathers more than 30 internationally renowned scholars in qualitative inquiry to present provocative interventions into the politics of research, philosophy of inquiry, justice matters, and writing practices. Drawn from a decade of cutting-edge plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, these contributors and their chapters represent the leading edge of scholarship that has pushed the field forward over the last decade. Topics discussed include the research marketplace, data entanglements, the neoliberal university, Indigenous methodologies, slow research, performative ethics, intersectionality, civically engaged research, post-qualitative inquiry and the new materialisms, collaborative research, poetic inquiry, academic writing, and the future of the field. These and other topics comprise a moving-rather than static-center to the field, one that moves across contexts and ontologies, moves between agreement and disagreement, forges new collaborations, and informs new inter- and trans-disciplinary approaches to research. Qualitative Inquiry in Transition-Pasts, Presents, & Futures: A Critical Reader will be required reading for those seeking to understand where the field of qualitative inquiry has been and will look to go in the years to come.

Norman K. Denzin (1942-2023) was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Founding Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Part I: Politics of Research 1. Qualitative Inquiry, Research Marketplaces, and Neoliberalism: Adding Some +s (pluses) to our Thinking about the Mess in Which we Find Ourselves 2. Be Careful What You Wish For: Data Entanglements in Qualitative Research, Policy, and Neoliberal Governance 3. Feminist Poststructuralisms and the Neoliberal University 4. Intellectual Sharecropping and the Tenure and Promotion Process; Part II: Philosophy of Inquiry 5. Moving Forward, Pushing Back: Indigenous Methodologies in the Academy 6. Resistance is Becoming not Possible: Philosophical Inquiry and the Challenge of Material Change 7. Method ol o gie s ...that Encounter (Slowness and) Irregular Rhythm 8. Against Lists: A Post-Manifesto for a Wild, Ecological Creativity; Part III: Post-Qualitative Matters 9. Practices for the 'New' in the New Empiricisms, the New Materialisms, and Post Qualitative Inquiry 10. Qualitative Methodology and the New Materialisms: 'A Little of Dionysus's Blood?' 11. Voice in the Agentic Assemblage 12. Towards a Performative Ethics of Reciprocity 13. Stay Human: Can we be Human after Posthumanism?; Part IV: Social Justice 14. The Power of Stories and the Potential for Theorizing Social Justice Studies 15. Intersectionality in Education Research: Methodology as Critical Inquiry and Praxis 16. Developing Civically Engaged Art Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a (Post?) Pandemic World 17. Collaborative Spirit-writing for Social Justice; Part V: Writing Culture 18. Collaborative Autoethnography: An Ethical Approach to Inquiry that Makes a Difference 19. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics 20. Poetic Inquiry: Transforming Qualitative Data into Poetry 21. The Emotional Geographies of Academic Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival; Coda 22. Empathy as a Collaborative Act