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Qualitative Inquiry
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ISSN (Print) 1077-8004 - ISSN (Online) 1552-7565
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  • Autoethnographers as Freedom-Writers'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this reaction to the attack on Sir Salman Rushdie in August 2022 I suggest that he and several other writers represent powerful role-models for autoethnographers who also aspire to be freedom-writers. Some of those I reference include Nobel prize-winners such as Orhan Pamuk and Annie Ernaux as well as other literary and political figures such as Maya Angelou, Elena Ferrante, James Joyce, and George Orwell. I then turn to Norman Denzin, recently honored in a warm festschrift, as a prime exemplar of an academic autoethnographer whose work has encouraged others to become their own kind of freedom-writer.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-11T12:00:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221150931
       
  • An Introduction to Responding Autoethnography

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      Authors: Oskar Szwabowski
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I introduce the concept of responding autoethnography. The immediate inspiration for this concept was Ellis’s text on the amassing of many autoethnographic stories to generate collective consciousness. In my text, I present a different approach to collective consciousness and the relationship between stories: that is, collective consciousness is not a fusion of horizons; it is not a unified story, but a dirty, chaotic, pulsating, cluster of diverse elements. It is not a collective consciousness in the Marxist sense, but a form close to the Deleuzian complex. The second source was the issue of taking into account other autoethnographic texts so as not to reduce them. Responding autoethnography would be another way of taking into account the voices of other researchers, a form of answering beyond the dominant way of appropriating someone else’s thought. I will present responding autoethnography on the example of experiencing the pandemic.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-11T11:59:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231155878
       
  • Dangerous Liaisons in the Wasteland' A Found Document

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      Authors: Martyn Hammersley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-18T12:00:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231155866
       
  • Breach: A Trans*textual Essay

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      Authors: jt Richardson
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The author engages the essay form and body in this creative nonfiction essay as trans*textual. A trans*textual essay, as methodological and literary, attends to textual movement and a textual body lacking traditional cohesive devices, such as transitional sentences and naming practices. This article’s approach to the essay privileges ambiguity and not-knowing by using common security questions to authenticate identity in digital spaces in order to structure a personal history. Wrong body and wrong name discourse often oversimplify trans* experience. Taking “identity theft” as its initial provocation, this article unpacks the complexity of naming, identity, intimacy, erasure, and personal history.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-16T06:33:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221150006
       
  • Interrogating (Proximity to) Whiteness: Asian(American) Women in
           Autoethnographic Sister Circles

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      Authors: Tairan Qiu, Jayna Resman, Jia Zheng
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Against the backdrop of historical and present-day anti-Asian racism, we remember, retell, and reflect on the formative experiences in the development of our critical perspectives on our racialization as Asian(American) women. In this article, we theoretically lean into Asian Critical Theory and proximity to whiteness. Methodologically, we use Autoethnographic Sister Circles to engage in a continual discursive process of individual and collaborative (counter)storytelling. We present our “findings” in the form of a dialogic spiral that embodies the messy conversations, spirit, wisdom, and care present in our sister circles. Through our work, we call on institutions and spaces of power to make a concerted effort in establishing dialogic spaces, physically and virtually, for individuals with marginalized identities. We also invite other Women of Color scholars to be in community and conversation with us through doing autoethnographic research that is authentic to them using various modal, cultural, linguistic, and land/location/time-specific methods/methodologies.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-11T10:20:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221150010
       
  • Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young
           Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden

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      Authors: Mostafa Hosseini
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Poetry can fulfill different purposes—it can be therapeutic, a testimony, or a rebellious expression of injustice. This article presents a thematic found poem exploration, of six Afghan female migrants, aged 19 to 24. They arrived in Sweden between 2013 and 2016. I have translated the interviews verbatim from Dari to Swedish and finally into English. The following poems reflect a period of my participants’ lives related to the complexity of uprootedness, nostalgia, and their struggles of in-betweenness and belonging. In addition, it also reflects their hope, aspirations, and commitments of remaking home and rebuilding life.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T11:30:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221150011
       
  • The Day After: An Ethnodrama About Teachers’ Decision-Making Amid
           Silencing School Policies

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      Authors: Alyssa Hadley Dunn
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This ethnodrama, based on hundreds of interviews with educators around the United States, takes readers into a school on the day after a national tragedy. Grounded in the theory of Days After Pedagogy, the characters portray the nuances and complexities of educators’ decision-making on days after, especially when working amid silencing school policies. A post-script includes theory, methods, and implications.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T11:24:26Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221149160
       
  • Im/Probabilities of Post/Authorship and Academic Writing Otherwise in
           Postfoundational Inquiry

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      Authors: Carol A. Taylor, Angelo Benozzo
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores questions of im/probability of/as post/authorship in postfoundational inquiry. Inspired by Deleuzian philosophy, the article instantiates post/authorship and academic writing otherwise as a means to interrogate, critique, and undo the representationalist modes of normative authorship. Through a series of playful im/probabilities, the article suggests and enacts a writerly mode of post/authorship that reframes notions of authorial intentionality and origination.Reviewer 2: “… your contribution … needs to be more clearly stated at the outset”.In paying attention to writerly invention as inquiry without method, the article’s provocation is, “What might happen if/when we go rogue and become post/authorship imposters instead of authors'”
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-02-02T11:15:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144638
       
  • On How I Got Through COVID-19 Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach to
           Resilience in Disability

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      Authors: Karen A. E. Hall, Marija Djurdjevic, Blanca Deusdad
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I explore how I—a person born with a physical disability living alone in a foreign country—was able to cope with COVID-19 lockdown. I used the autoethnographic method (Chang, 2016) to scrutinize sources of my resilience. Through evocative autoethnography, I reviewed risks/coping strategies recalling the lessons drawn from my childhood in the care of two supportive women. Then, performing analytical autoethnography, I self-assessed my lived experiences through a social science lens. A theoretical validation of my personal story helped me to acknowledge how resilience in my life had been built and was mobilized in the face of the pandemic.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-01-13T10:07:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144639
       
  • Onboarding, Orientation, and Mentoring as Culture-Crafting Processes: A
           Rac(e)y Autoethnography of Resistance in Higher Education Administration

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      Authors: Bryant Keith Alexander
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This essay uses autobiographical detail as theorizing through experiences and observations of culture-building in organizational structures that work through the tensiveness of maintaining cultural systems even while engaging commitments to DEI-A. The essay is written through the perspective of a Black queer/quare scholar/administrator in shifting cultural and institutional contexts. The essay engages autoethnography as a culture-centered methodology, and culture-crafting through three critical autobiographical entries: “This Is How We Do It (Here): The Tensions of Onboarding and Orientation,” “Mentoring for Consistency and Compliance (or for Possibility and Potentiality)'” and “The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Oil: A Conflicted Leadership Strategy.” All examples are variations of actual experiences by the author between multiple academic institutions without the specificity of naming names or exact locations.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-01-04T07:04:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144072
       
  • Border Rioting and Crossings Between Disciplines and Professions,
           Countries and Cultures, Science and Society: An Assemblage of
           Autoethnographic Stories From the High North

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      Authors: Anne B. Reinertsen, Kirsten Elisabeth Stien, Elena Merzliakova, Valerii Chernik, Julia Afonkina, Herbert Zoglowek, Tatiana Kuzmicheva
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      We are seven experienced academics and researchers from the high north. All within the field of education. We represent different disciplines, countries, and cultures. What we have in common is a wish to cross borders, collaborate, and learn: make space for storied experiences. Our stories are open ended—we start and end in complexities, and embedded in some sort of post- or trans- perspective be it modernisms, -structuralisms, -humanisms, -colonialisms, -feminisms . . . No conclusions or commonalities are necessary. Rather, we want to draw attention to the metatextualities and freedoms of our storying and the inseparability of opposites. We are learning academics beginning where we are. We are learning academics wanting lives of becoming rather than copying or reinforcing what is already there.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-24T12:22:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221142811
       
  • Interrogating White Men’s Allyship: Implications of Performativity for
           Qualitative Methodologies

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      Authors: Jeff Halvorsen
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In recent years, social movements have drawn attention to injustices and demanded action. In response, some White men have come to activism as allies. However, activists and scholars have problematized allyship by highlighting performative allies who claim the identity, but continue to replicate racist, sexist, homophobic, or colonial oppressive practices. To examine the methodological implications of this tension, I used a meta-methodology approach to select and analyze 13 qualitative allyship studies that drew on phenomenology, grounded theory, and critical theories/methodologies. I appraised the recruitment methods, data analysis, and trustworthiness procedures, and I assessed how the voice of the target group was integrated in each methodological genre. As a White male doctoral candidate in social work, I was drawn to critical ethnography’s focus on historicized power relations, the practice of co-implication, nomination procedures, member checking with minoritized groups, and other research practices that begin to address the tensions of performativity in allyship.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-21T11:10:04Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144070
       
  • The Joy of Sprawly Mess Unknowing: Volcanic Data Eruptions and Irruptions

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      Authors: Hannah Hogarth, Carol A. Taylor, Sally Hewlett, Joy Cranham, Karen Barr, Eliane Bastos, Elisabeth Barratt Hacking
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article uses the figuration of the volcano to demonstrate the disruptive and irruptive power of post-qualitative research. The article’s volcanic irruptions aim to keep data on the move, to show how data continually and slowly proliferate in rhizomatic, nomadic, and unforeseen ways via different, ongoing experimentations, instantiating the processual research practices of knowledge-ing. This article includes, and celebrates, empirical materials collectively produced as part of a collaborative research project entitled Get Up and Move!, which enacted posthumanist, feminist materialist research practices. We were curious about how we might activate the volcano to disrupt traditional modes of data collection, analysis, and dissemination rituals through research-creation events. By concept-ing with the volcano, through the creation of volcanic calligrams, we intra-act with data, as data erupt and irrupt in powerful, agentic, and surprising ways.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-16T12:30:25Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221142814
       
  • Cover Letter

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      Authors: Harvey Humphrey
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      A poem on the endless job hunt for early career sociologists
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-15T11:56:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221139635
       
  • What Is It Like to Experience the Other in an Online Interview' Using
           Phenomenology to Explore the Online Encounter of the Other

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      Authors: Brendan Hyde, Elizabeth Rouse
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Using a phenomenology of practice, we explore what it is like to experience the other in an online interview using van Manen’s notion of “insight cultivators” as sources for thematic insights in relation to an interview we conducted in a recent project. Specifically, we draw on Don Ihde’s concept of embodiment relations incorporating technology, Emmanuel Levinas’ notion of “the face,” and Jean-Luc Marion’s idea of “the look.” We conclude that online interviews can enhance human encounters and advocate for using these even when in-person events are possible because of the opportunities that are presented by such communication platforms.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-14T09:18:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144071
       
  • Awareness of Ageism While Researching Multiple Minority Discrimination: A
           Discourse and Grounded Theory Analysis Revisiting Own Qualitative Research
           

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      Authors: Miguel S. Valles Martínez
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The concept awareness, proposed years ago to study contexts of interaction and processes of identity between nursing care personnel and dying patients, may form a methodological and theoretical basis to study ageism. Moreover, awareness is proposed here to be revisited as a core category referring to basic social processes and discursive axes underling various phenomena such as racism, sexism, or ageism. My aim in this article is a retrospective research storytelling circa the case of aging immigrants as people who have experienced multiple minority discrimination. A discourse and grounded theory analysis were used to reanalyze a selection of qualitative material gathered over the course of two sets of research projects on xenophobia (2006–2012) and multiple discrimination (2013–2019). Becoming aware of ageism in the case of aging immigrants and the researcher himself serves as an exercise of methodological, self-reflexive, qualitative, and embodied enquiry for a better understanding of sociological ageism.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-13T01:36:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221144068
       
  • Drawing Attention to the Wonders of Parental Care: A Methodological
           Inquiry

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      Authors: Mona-Lisa Angell
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores seeing/drawing as a research practice and makes two key contributions to contemporary conversations on audiovisual methods. First, it reveals a problem related to the methodological silencing of more than verbal presence and efforts that occur as video data are distilled by transcription. This is significant because it illustrates how widely used methods sometimes add to the continued silencing of overlooked perspectives. Second, the article outlines a methodological experiment catalyzed by the abovementioned problem, inquiring into seeing/drawing as a research practice that allows for cultivating attention toward more than verbal presence while temporarily muting the verbal.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-13T01:33:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221142807
       
  • Methodologies for the Apocalypse: Unthinking the Thinkable

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      Authors: Mirka Koro, Jennifer Wolgemuth
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this conceptual paper, we speculate on some goals and methodologies for social inquiry responsive to a viral and potentially unthinkable world. Rather than following old methodological scripts and validated practices, we imagine fluid, responsive, and urgent methodologies as needed responses to better show and vividly document our progression toward a possible (methodological) “apocalypse.” As such a real/imaginary apocalypse enables us to (un)think what is currently thinkable, to postulate, speculate, and hesitate as we stretch to imagine inquiry and knowing in more immediate, deeply responsive, and responsible ways.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-12-13T01:24:00Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221142805
       
  • 40 Years of Qualitative Feminist Interviewing: Conceptual Moments and
           Cultivating Ecosystems of Care

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      Authors: Brigette A. Herron
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores the evolving concept of feminist interviewing and its contemporary use, exploring key conceptual moments from the past 40 years of feminist interviewing, and concluding with current implications for feminist researchers interested in using qualitative interviews in social science research. Faced with multiple possibilities for approaching feminist interviewing, this article argues for the importance of cultivating an ecosystem of care, a framework for inviting stories rather than coercively courting headlines. Considering various approaches to feminist methodology and interviewing, this article suggests using the theoretical framing of “feminism for the 99%” to guide the use of feminist interviewing in our current moment to cultivate feminist ecosystems of care and avoid dominating practices in research.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-29T11:35:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221139611
       
  • Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation: At the Nexus of Home, School,
           and Hip Hop

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      Authors: M. Billye Sankofa Waters
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Black Storytellers and Everyday Liberation addresses the question, “How do Black folx cultivate everyday practices of liberation'” This article details the inception of an ethnographic Black Storytelling research project between 2021 and 2022 that centers the lived experiences of 18 people around the United States. The participants, including myself, collectively explore how various institutions have shaped individual and family identities. As an outcome of this work, I provide analysis that disrupts institutional anti-Black racism (specifically naming schools) and identify ways that we can heal and affirm ourselves through everyday practices. I conclude with a data excerpt in the form of poetic transcription.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-29T11:33:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221139561
       
  • Ghost Writings

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      Authors: Sheridan Linnell
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Three interlocutors; three deaths; more than three stories that multiply, entangle and unwind. Illness, suicide, voluntary euthanasia, and the slippages in between. Turning to other-than-human beings. Becoming a mistress of ceremonies. Embracing a methodology of sighs. Throwing us into that place where we matter to each other—where everything matters even as it falls away.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T08:15:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221135408
       
  • The Abject Swearing at the Figure of the Stranger

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      Authors: Dave Yan
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this autoethnographic poetry, I express my sense of Ulysses syndrome, reflecting upon the past 12 years since I left my motherland—China. In reading Ahmed’s work, the human “I” is conceptualized as the “the stranger,” reminiscent of the foreignness of the past, longing for an imagined life that he would live in. Yet, Kristeva’s pathologizing label of abjection horrifies its own existence of the human “I,” who cannot remember its youth and beauty, becoming an embodied Other. In his dreams, the abject “I” utters flights of poetry at the stranger by asking—how migration can be experienced as anything other than complication with all the mess, tension, and conflict it brings. In bringing the concept of abjection, it problematizes my understanding of be(com)ing the “figure of the stranger,” transforming the humanness that the human “I” represents in its wake.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T08:08:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221135398
       
  • In the Depths: Synergies Between the Doctoral Experience and Life in Hong
           Kong

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      Authors: Alexandra Ridgway
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The process of gaining a PhD does not occur in isolation; it is situated within and against the contexts doctoral students find themselves in at any given time. Through sharing three diary entries penned in the depths of my PhD in Hong Kong in 2017, I highlight the interconnections between particularly memorable events and junctures within my doctoral journey. In so doing, I reveal the importance of journaling for identifying the echoes between personal and graduate school experiences to understand the complex terrain of doctoral life.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T08:03:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221135157
       
  • Variations of I: Setting the Poetic Tone for Student-Voiced Action
           Research

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      Authors: Adrian Schoone, Judy Bruce, Eileen Piggot-Irvine, Hana Turner-Adams
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we explore how the poetic rendering of an initial focus group transcript with five secondary school students in an alternative education setting in Aotearoa, New Zealand, set the tone for an entire action research. Each year, approximately 3,500 secondary school students are referred to alternative education provisions due to suspensions, exclusions, and truancy. Two-thirds of these students are rangatahi Māori (Māori young people). Alternative education teachers, however, know little about their students’ schooling histories. Using participatory action research, teachers explored critical moments from young people’s education journeys. Found poems created from the first focus group with students, including the creation of I poems, set the tone for action research. These poems exposed more widely the twofold I-Thou/I-It attitude that has shaped the students’ lived experiences, and as a response, researchers gave heed to I-Thou as they shaped the research approach.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-17T07:28:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221135136
       
  • Nothing Personal: An Anti-Asian Hate Crime

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      Authors: Vicky Wong
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This autoethnography reflects the author’s devastation and recovery after being victimized by a stranger amid a surge of racist and anti-Asian attacks during the pandemic. Triggers and images impact her mental health which highlights her need for professional trauma therapy. During healing, she discovers how leaching images and triggers can spark fear and anxiety. The author lives the irony of both a culture of campaigns against anti-Asian racism and a culture of violence targeting Asians. Overall, the autoethnography provides a deeper sense of the social and cultural issues involved in the post-traumatic effects of anti-Asian racist incidents.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-11T11:17:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221131025
       
  • Is There Quality in Qualitative Research'

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      Authors: Martyn Hammersley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-08T01:17:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221135146
       
  • A Good Name: Pseudonyms in Research

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      Authors: Maria K. E. Lahman, Rowen Thomas, Eric D. Teman
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      People’s names and the places, animals, and items named by people are deeply personal and reflective of their culture and identity, yet in qualitative research, the standard is to use pseudonyms. This practice is thought to protect research participants, but when are “real” names most respectful and appropriate' How might researchers include research participants in these considerations' The purpose of this methodological article is to increase transparency and collaboration around the participant naming process, bringing much-needed attention to issues of power in the naming process in research. The authors review the literature and detail their reflexive engagement with pseudonyms; they advance issues for consideration and provide recommendations in the areas of power in participant naming, culturally responsive research, and pseudonym use with trans people and incarcerated people. Throughout the article, the authors interrupt the text with reflexive narrative interludes to share personal experiences with naming.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-08T01:15:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221134088
       
  • Hope Inquiry: Vital Moves From the Gut in the Middle Cut Together

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      Authors: Judith Guevarra Enriquez
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this encounter, I move in the middle of things, more specifically of other texts not my own for I did not bring them into being or strung them in their word order as you do. They are borrowed and yet they get and feel me. I attend to the doings of hope and not so much its what-ness or aboutness. I propose a hope inquiry that begins in the middle. Its inquiry does not ask what it really means or a getting into the bottom of things. There is no bottom, just the middle bits. Its question is an invitation to ponder and fold into at least three dance moves: (a) to attend to the not-yet-ness of things, places and possibilities; (b) to rest in presence, fully stuck in the here and now; and (c) to find returns, detours, and dead-ends with deep intent. Hope is an inward movement—a reconnection to one’s gut—our body-middle.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-11-03T12:33:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221134085
       
  • Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing

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      Authors: Darcy E. Furlong, Jessica Nina Lester
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      There is consensus around the value of conducting literature reviews across disciplines; however, little attention has been given to the potential(s) of engaging in a qualitative methodological literature review (QMLR). This article examines the possibilities of engaging in a QMLR by showing how it can inform qualitative research practice. After overviewing the history of literature reviews, we offer a series of questions that can inform and be integrated into a QMLR. We then demonstrate how such reviews can serve as an opportunity for qualitative inquirers to critically engage with the methodological literature with the intent of better understanding, enacting, and generating new methodological practices.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-31T01:46:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221131028
       
  • Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique

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      Authors: Marc Spooner
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The current Qualitative Inquiry partial special issue titled “Higher Education in the Time of Trump and Beyond: Resistance and Critique” is based on a similarly themed plenary panel that was to take place at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry in 2020. Alas, like so many other events, it was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-20T01:09:27Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221131018
       
  • Autoethnography as Practice and Process: Toward an Honest Appraisal'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I attempt a contribution to “honest conversations” about the writing practices and processes of autoethnographers. My attempt may or may not be useful to those who judge their own autoethnographic writing as messy or even embarrassing.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-14T01:13:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221126702
       
  • (Navigating-Circling-Un/Doing)~Post-Qualitative Inquiry: A Collective
           Biography

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      Authors: Maureen A. Flint, Paul W. Eaton, Laura E. Smithers
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this collective biography, we follow the question: What does it do to think~post' We navigate~circle~un/do the entanglements of institutional and disciplinary boundaries and researcher identities, increasing striations of post-thinking within qualitative inquiry, teaching practices, ethics, and becoming. Our data include personal journals, crafts and collages, collective writing, dialogues, and images from a conference session where we engaged participants in our thinking. Our memory work enacts post-qualitative becomings, opening space for questioning and reflecting (&&&), undoing and unfolding individual subjectivities, and examining the vulnerabilities, tensions, and possibilities of becoming~post.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-13T05:06:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221126699
       
  • Ethical Principles, Social Harm and the Economic Relations of Research:
           Negotiating Ethics Committee Requirements and Community Expectations in
           Ethnographic Research in Rural Malawi

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      Authors: Nicola Ansell, Evance Mwathunga, Flora Hajdu, Elsbeth Robson, Thandie Hlabana, Lorraine van Blerk, Roeland Hemsteede
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Conventional research ethics focus on avoidance of harm to individual participants through measures to ensure informed consent. In long-term ethnographic research projects involving multiple actors, however, a wider concept of harm is needed. We apply the criminological concept of social harm, which focuses on harm produced through and affecting wider social relations, to a research project that we undertook in Malawi. Through this, we show how structural economic inequalities shape the consequences of research for the differently positioned parties involved. Specifically, we focus on dilemmas around transferring resources within three social fields: our relations with a Malawian ethics committee; our interventions in a rural community; and our efforts to engage the policy community. Each of these involved multiple and differently placed individuals within broader, multi-scalar structural relations and reveals the inadequacies of conventional codes of ethics.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-13T04:53:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221124631
       
  • Naturing With Big Data: How Writing Creation Myths Can Matter

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      Authors: Mihye An
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article draws on Barad’s posthumanist ethics of mattering as an alternative methodology to qualitative research with big data while foregrounding writing as mattering. Big data is outlined as linguistic matter to be understood in relational materiality and subjectivity. I then discuss writing in light of mattering from multiple angles. To illustrate, I present an example of a course in which students wrote their own creation myths in an affirmative manner by navigating a corpus of 80 existing ones. The final section sketches what an ethics of naturing with big data might be about.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-05T12:06:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221126701
       
  • Slippery Inquiry: Engaging With the Vague and Half-Glimpsed

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      Authors: Eva Pallesen
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I inquire into the unsure, half-glimpsed kind of experiences, which tend to be excluded from analytical processes and research publications. Based on process thinkers, I argue that in these slippery moments, we are most open to movement, and hence to the other as other. I suggest that we have the capacity to engage with these moments through a loosened but highly focused mode of inquiry—akin to how we bodily respond to the solicitations of the environment when we walk, dance, or skate. By stressing the vague and half-glimpsed, I join others in questioning the academic norm of valuable knowledge as that which is fully illuminated, fully present, and clearly seen in radiant daylight. By pursuing the slippery research experience, I aim to contribute to the emerging stream on doing differently in the academy, including also re-doing academic traditions of writing.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-10-01T07:19:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221126705
       
  • Community Members as Fieldwork Guides in Disaster Settings: Ethics of Care
           Through a Relational Methodology of Empathy and Trust

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      Authors: Adeeba Hakkim
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This reflexive account of fieldwork with disaster-affected communities in Kerala, India, recounts the researcher’s engagement with positionality and ethics. A participatory method was adopted—enlisting local field guides who mediated the researcher’s interactions with participants. Apart from offering pragmatic solutions for accessing participants, the method enhanced the researcher’s contextual/cultural insight, and facilitated a relationship of trust. The researcher-guide dynamic is explored as a co-constructing and relational method that minimizes harm and maximizes benefit for participants. Ethics of care is elucidated as a practicable ethical framework for thinking and doing disaster research, illustrated with reference to the present method.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-28T12:52:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221126704
       
  • Grading Writing: A Poetic (Auto) Ethnography

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      Authors: Justin Nicholes, Alison Lukowski, Cody Reimer
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Grading has long been the source of negative emotions in Writing Studies for teachers and students alike; these negative emotions and experiences especially affect women-identifying professors and professors of color. This poetic research study presents the found poems of writing instructors in one predominantly White Midwest US university English department; poems came from restories from participants’ interviews about how they developed as assessors of writing. The aim is to foreground lived experiences of college professors who teach undergraduate writing for a living as the field continues to explore ethical and humane ways of assessment for all involved.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-28T07:31:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221124070
       
  • “What Do You Think Needs to be Done to Address Self-Harm'”:
           Centering the Perspectives of Youth Who Engage in Self-Harm Through Found
           Poetry

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      Authors: Michael R. Riquino, Sarah E. Reese, Jen K. Molloy, Van L. Nguyen, Emera Greenwood, Olivia LaFountain, Amber Cavasos, Megan S. Paceley, Sarah Jen, Briana McGeough
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In recent years, suicide and nonsuicidal self-injury researchers and practitioners have identified the need to amplify the lived experiences of individuals who experience and engage in self-injurious thoughts and behaviors in research and clinical practice (hereinafter referred to as “self-harm” to honor the words used by the youth who participated in this study). In the present study, we sought the wisdom and perspectives of youth who engage in self-harm in response to the following questions: What do you think needs to be done to address self-harm' What would you say to parents of youth who engage in self-harm' What would you say to other youth who are engaging in self-harm' Utilizing data from in-depth interviews (N = 59), we constructed a series of three found research poems to center their words and perspectives in answer to each of the research questions.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-20T11:27:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221124629
       
  • Betweener: A Bricolage Poem

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      Authors: Timothy Matthew Lee Sutton
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Inspired by Diversi & Moreira’s Betweener Talk and Betweener Autoethnographies, I employ poetic inquiry to sketch a nonessentialist position for research in the spaces between. My poetry is archival and it is poem-ish. Using repetition, I attempt to break through binary thinking, while simultaneously illustrating the difficulty in doing so. I seek possibility and potential in the twilit space of both/and rather than either/or. In-between spaces can be precarious, a source of uncertainty and fear, yet hope can also be found there.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-17T05:31:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221123959
       
  • Re(membering) and Re(claiming) in My Mama’s Kitchen: A Decolonial
           Feminist Video-Cued Qi Ethnography

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      Authors: Eleanor Xiaoxiao Mehta
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this study, I draw upon Endarkened Feminist Epistemology (Dillard, 2012) and Decolonial Feminist Research (Rhee, 2020) to explore the epistemology of my mother, a first-generation Chinese immigrant. Based on data generated from the video-cued qi ethnography methodology, I pay attention to my Mama’s ways of knowing as she cooks in the kitchen. Qi is a Chinese concept that means breath, spirit, and life force. I draw on qi as the ongoing connectivity toward wholeness and movement toward harmony in the way I collected and analyzed data. I share my findings as a series of interconnected poetry, images, and narratives to (re)member my mother’s life as well as mine as we re(claim) what we have forgotten and re(turn) to a place of wholeness. I conclude the article by exploring the implications for the Asian American Pacific Islander community and beyond, as we conduct the work of collective rememory.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-16T10:29:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221122314
       
  • Dancing the Data: A Duo-Ethnographic Exploration Toward Dialogic
           Reflexivity in Qualitative Data Analysis

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      Authors: Kristen M. Snyder, Elizabeth F. Turesky
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Qualitative researchers continue to push methodological boundaries to study social phenomena using arts-based practices. Research methodologists suggest that the arts open new possibilities in research through the very nature of the arts to stimulate and evoke perspectives. The arts promote dialogue, which yields new insights, highlights multiple meanings, and questions norm-based traditions. This article presents findings from a duo-ethnography to explore the application of the arts as a dialogic-reflexive process during the data analysis phase in qualitative research. Findings contribute with insights into how science and culture are combined methodologically to facilitate dialogic-reflexivity in research and meaning-making.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-16T10:26:02Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221118687
       
  • Communal Conversations: Black Women World-Making Through Mentorship

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      Authors: Nicole M. Brown, Ruby Mendenhall
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the mentoring relationships Black women create and develop. The authors highlight how mentoring is communal and the ways these relationships serve to connect communities of Black women as resources of support. The article illuminates the generative power of Black women’s mentoring relationships to create alternate realities that make the academy more accessible, supportive, and beneficial for Black women. Black women engage in these mentoring relationships as acts of resistance by fighting to make space for their voices to be heard. As members of marginalized communities and outsiders within the academy, the article utilizes conversation as a method of inquiry, to share a curated exchange between the co-authors, Nicole M. Brown and Ruby Mendenhall, discussing the evolution of their decade’s long mentoring relationship.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-16T09:13:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221124015
       
  • The Cost of Living: An Autoethnography

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      Authors: Donna F. Henson
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This autoethnographic piece reflects on the cost of living and loving in this beautiful and broken, “crisis ordinary” world. In the interplay of the creative and critical, lyrical and liminal, I write on the human imperative to find heart in a hopeless place. I find inspiration in the poetry of Czelaw Milosz and kindness in communication and, in so doing, advocate for the small nothings that bring us solace and personal preservation in the face of big wicked problems and distant-witnessed disaster.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-16T09:02:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221124005
       
  • Thinking With Perplexities in the Context of Social Inclusion, Refugees,
           and Schools: Methodological Learnings

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      Authors: Jennifer Dodd, Sean Lessard, Vera Caine, Kathy Toogood, Jean Clandinin
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we explore the ideas of thinking with perplexity. We draw on Addams (1902) understanding of perplexity that is interwoven with ethics. Through turning toward a research study alongside teachers who engage with refugee students in a Canadian kindergarten classroom, we make visible how a turn toward perplexity disrupts our taken for granted knowing and holds open the possibilities for growth. Drawing on field texts, conversations, and reflective notes, we compose story fragments to unpack our understandings of perplexities.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-07T06:36:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221122360
       
  • Audio Postcard

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      Authors: Peter Joseph Gloviczki
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I write autoethnographically to explore Joni Mitchell’s return to the stage after a prolonged absence. In doing so, I aim to consider what it means to be present at a distance in the digital moment. I hope this work encourages others on their respective paths.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-05T11:04:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221122334
       
  • Blair Performing as Orwell Performing as . . .

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this narrative, I identify seven main roles which Eric Arthur Blair performs throughout his life. Blair-Orwell is shown as enacting or faking or impersonating such characters in his own life-drama as Class Warrior, Imperial Policeman, Autoethnographer, Womaniser, Soldier, Socialist, and Political Writer.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-02T09:28:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221114128
       
  • Two Truths and a Lie: An Ethnodramatic Exploration of Resistance and
           Relationships Between Women in Our Current Political and Social Climate

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      Authors: Carmen Meyers
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In 2021, I created the verbatim documentary play, Two Truths and a Lie, to address how verbatim documentary theatre can serve as a springboard for dialogue regarding perceived truths around the 2016 and 2020 elections. This new verbatim documentary interlaces my connection with three of the conservative women I interviewed in 2019 around their response to “What are your thoughts about the 2020 election'” and incorporating the game, Two Truths and a Lie, to engage audience discussion around bias and perceived truth. The play emerged from a ten-day playwright retreat at The Hundredth Hill Artist Residency and was performed in Bloomington, Indiana, in the summer of 2021. This article aims to unpack and chronicle my experience in creating and performing this new work by narrowing in on the project’s methodology with excerpts from the script, performance and (in)-show discussion reflections, and future outcomes.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-02T09:27:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221114126
       
  • Reimagining the Politics of Belonging Through Counterstorytelling: A
           Decolonial Praxis of Refusal and Desire

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      Authors: Urmitapa Dutta
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I trace landscapes of decolonial inquiry centered on two questions: What is the work of decolonial inquiry' What are the imperatives of researchers committed to decolonial work' I engage with these questions from my relationally rooted place in solidarity with communities at the frontline of decolonial struggles in Northeast India. Adopting a multimodal counterstorytelling approach, I narrate two imperatives of decolonial inquiry: rooting and remembrance and theorizing from struggle, driven by an ethos of desire and refusal. Across these endeavors, I strive to reimagine a radical politics of belonging that transgresses colonially configured nation state borders.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-01T11:48:41Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221118690
       
  • Brown Boxes: An Autoethnographic Exploration of Cultural Identity and
           Fluid Positionality

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      Authors: Sarah Shandie Mohammed
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Through personal vignettes, the author explores how racial, religious, and citizenship aspects of cultural identity shift in meaning both across the lifespan and across borders. The author evokes tension and growth in the vignettes to communicate a felt understanding of the emotional implications of colonial displacement, offering an opportunity for readers to resonate with the diasporic experience. The author further calls for social scientists to reframe positionality as a persistent reflexive process that is as fluid and dynamic as we are (rather than a methods section feature) and similarly reframe diversity to find new ways to relate to one another.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-09-01T11:46:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221118688
       
  • AsianCrit and Autoethnography: A Future-Focussed Fugue of Critical
           Collaborative Inquiry

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      Authors: Aaron Teo
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Despite the considerable influence of the “Asian Century” on Australian Government policy and the purported centrality of Asia to Australian national identity, the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has simultaneously highlighted and intensified the deleterious impacts of anti-Asian racism. Specifically, Orientalist discourses and a “fear of invasion” that underpin the differential racialized treatment of the Asian diaspora in Australia have manifested in both old and new racisms that have had significant impacts on the mental and physical wellbeing of Asian Australians. In response to this crisis, this autoethnographic paper acknowledges the growing methodological complexity of Critical Race Theory and advances a novel, future-focussed Asian Australian social justice agenda in solidarity with other racialized minorities by interrogating the collaborative potential of Asian Critical Race Theory (AsianCrit) and Autoethnography through an investigation of their respective theoretical and methodological intersections.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-30T07:14:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221118692
       
  • Embracing Vulnerability: The Critical Practice of Reflexivity as a
           Non-Pacific Researcher Using Indigenous Methodologies

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      Authors: Suzie Schuster
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the challenges I have encountered during my PhD journey regarding positionality and the complexities of being an insider–outsider researcher. I am originally from the global North, living in the global South and conducting research with communities in Samoa, my home of 30 years, though geographically located in New Zealand due to border closures. This autoethnographic reflection elaborates the complexities of being both an insider and outsider engaging in research focused on competitive swimming in Samoa, using Pacific methodology of talanoa. The article aims to highlight my competing identities and how I negotiated these within the data collection process. It concludes that it is necessary for non-Pasifika researchers to be cautious if using indigenous methods as there are ever-changing dynamics within cross-cultural fieldwork that requires adopting an intentional vulnerability within the research space.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-19T07:05:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221116099
       
  • Things That Tell: An Object-Centered Methodology for Restorying
           Women’s Longing and Belonging

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      Authors: Fee Mozeley, Sara Kianga Judge, Debbi Long, Jodie McGregor, Naomi Wild, Jay Johnston
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Developments in qualitative research methods recognize the benefits of working with material objects to evoke memories, stories, and reflections on specific topics. Through engagement with materialist theory and methods, our research demonstrates that more than simply eliciting storied responses, self-chosen material objects can in fact co-tell stories in novel ways. This article draws on our storied experiences as a group of women who took part in a four-day residential storying retreat. Our qualitatively driven research employed a range of multi-modal methodologies; however, this article focuses on a particular method that involved co-telling personal stories with the aid of self-selected objects. This method embodies the emotive and co-constitutive power, relational materiality, and reflective potency of object-centered storying. The article builds on and extends qualitative methodologies that value more-than-rational ways of researching.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-13T05:44:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221114125
       
  • A Visual Representation of Kalpaka Bulvāris in Riga, Latvia Following
           the Invasion of Ukraine

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      Authors: Courtney Queen, Brian Benfer
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Russia launched an unprovoked full-scale invasion of the sovereign country of Ukraine. This movement was historic as people around the world watched the events unfold, and before our eyes, the world watched a country be destroyed and civilians lose their homes, schools, hospitals, and lives. The invasion on February 24, 2022, was particularly emotional feeling incredibly close to home in countries like Latvia that also lost its independence in a similar manner just generations before. This is the visual representation of the events by the people of Latvia for the people of Ukraine during the first 2 weeks following the invasion.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-06T05:17:21Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221114129
       
  • “Complicated” Grief

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      Authors: Katherine Ludwin
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In an autoethnographic journey through two losses that occurred months apart, I explore my own sense of disbelief, pain, shock, and horror while accompanying each of my parents through their final months of illness that were anything but peaceful and calm. In a twin set of poems, the pieces problematize the pathologizing label of “complicated” grief by asking how—and if—loss can be experienced as anything other than complicated with all the mess, tension, and conflict it brings.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-06T05:14:39Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221114127
       
  • Longing as Method: A Rant on Yearnings for Our World, Academia, and
           Utopian Futurities Beyond Liberalism(s)

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      Authors: Lisbeth A. Berbary, Lauren A. Mohamed
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Together we found ourselves discussing current moments of racialized formations, pandemic practices, academic policing, equity projects (equity, diversity, and inclusion [EDI] initiatives), and our use, among it all. We were “formulating [our] critique of the ways that social justice movements have felt, and where [our] longing for something else was strongest.” This article, therefore, used longing as method for unearthing those embodied yearnings that arose within us against discontents, empty promises, and institutional lackings toward useful questionings, hope-full cravings, and progressive desires for more just futurities for our world(s), academies, and utopias beyond. In conversation with various radical thinkactors, this rant traces our longings as method for considering something otherwise. We begin with, and continually revisit, a question triggered by our readings of Ahmed: what is our use'
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-08-05T06:33:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221111379
       
  • Preparing for the Research Ceremony: Indigenist Researcher Training

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      Authors: Margaret Hughes, Shawn Wilson, Stuart Barlo
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Preparing ourselves for the ceremony of research is akin to preparing ourselves to be in good relationship with Knowledge, and with whoever else participates in the research, including other human beings, more than human beings, and Country. In this article, I talk about the practice of cultivating the values and skills that make for good relationships, both as a researcher in training and through the mentoring relationships with my PhD supervisors. It is my hope that sharing my experience as a PhD student traversing this training and mentoring journey may support others preparing for research within a relational methodology. Throughout the conversation, I come back to the importance of cultivating and practicing the principles of respect, receptivity, generosity, humility, compassion, and care, and building the skills of attention, deep listening, and service.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-21T11:48:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221111381
       
  • Deploying the Line to Study Young Adults’ Material-Discursive Identity
           Work and Its Slippery-Sticky Attachments to Developmentalism: A
           Diffractive Analysis

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      Authors: Kelly Clark/Keefe, Kelly Mancini Becker, Erika R. White
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article shares what surfaced during diffractive analysis of data from a participatory arts-engaged research project called Life Lines. Drawing on material feminism, studio-inquiry practices were designed to assist young adults in creatively speculating alongside researchers over varied conceptualizations of identity, including dominant explanations centering on cognitive development and alternative framings emphasizing materiality’s role in subjective formation. Lines as both culturally inscriptive “engines of theory” and as materially sensitive artistic inquiry practices were enlisted to open new insights about how it is for young adult bodies to sustain developmentalism’s “cruel optimism” about coherence, stability, and progression.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-21T11:47:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221111373
       
  • Hope for the Twin Cities: Poetic Reflections Amid Systemic Racism

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      Authors: Megan Butala, J. Scott Baker
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article is an example of how one preservice teacher utilizes poetry as a platform to convey emotion over time. Through reflection— retrospective and prospective—the following poetic triptych examines the past, present, and possible selves of one future educator and her hopes of beginning a teaching career, amid amplified visibility of systemic racism afflicting the Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN metroplex since the murder of George Floyd and subsequent racial strife in the community. Providing poetry as an avenue to discuss emotions of crises and stressors facing society—in teacher education and elsewhere—allows for in-depth self-reflexivity, essential to articulating emotional health and well-being.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-14T09:45:51Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221111375
       
  • Brother’s Room

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      Authors: Janette Graetz Simmonds
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The memory of inhabiting the room of a departed brother is explored in this narrative poem.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-14T09:43:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221107331
       
  • The Sound of Social Studies Job Searches: The Possibilities of Posthuman
           Listening

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      Authors: Morgan Paige Tate
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This poetic inquiry was produced by a posthuman sound and listening of audio from a focus group of social studies education pre-service teachers. The (re)listening allowed me to hear the relation between social studies education, patriarchy, and sports. This inquiry attends to the potestas, or limiting forces, heard in the audio, and it reflects on the potentia, a generative force, of posthuman sound and listening as an opening to learn more about forces that affect pre-service social studies educators as they enter the field of teaching, while avoiding the field of football.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-01T05:41:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221107329
       
  • Preparing Future Scholars in Repressive Times

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      Authors: Kathryn Roulston, Amy E. Stich
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The need for qualitative research that facilitates understanding of the social world is imperative as people around the globe encounter political, economic, environmental, health, and social crises. Higher education presses for preparing scholars to be creative, collaborative, and productive to examine these problems. In increasingly repressive contexts, the preparation of new scholars entails envisioning post-capitalist approaches to attend to how to live and work in the academy. This article uses concepts from Braidotti’s critical posthumanism and Lefebvre’s work on rhythmanalysis to imagine post-capitalist approaches to preparing future qualitative scholars for work in the neoliberal institution.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-23T11:12:40Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221103220
       
  • Three Refrains: Jumps in the Assemblage

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      Authors: Gabriel Edgardo Soler Santibanez
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article aims to explore the three types of refrain proposed by Deleuze and Guattari through Writing as Inquiry. I explore some memories of my childhood in a dictatorship, then the process of a breakup when I was at university, and the beginning of a mental health crisis. In this exploration, I reflect on the loss of my uncle, the role of songs in my life, and the changes in my territory through these difficult times. All of this is under the umbrella of the three refrains.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-23T11:11:09Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221103219
       
  • Positioning and the Thick Tangles of Spacetimemattering

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      Authors: Bronwyn Davies
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This paper re-turns to the concept of positioning, and to the thick tangles of spacetimemattering as they were at work in the paper “Positioning: the discursive production of selves” by Davies & Harré, published in 1990. In re-turning to the concept of positioning, and to its analysis, this paper asks what matters in scholarly work, and how it contributes to gendered, colonial relations of power. The paper explores the impact of the spacetimes scholars work in, on their thinking-in-being.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-15T11:38:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221103218
       
  • Iktomi Methodology

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      Authors: Chance White Eyes
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This essay responds to narrative analysis and other Indigenous Methodology skeptics who question the legitimacy of storytelling, oral tradition, and narrative analysis as legitimate forms of data and research. Iktomi Methodology (named after a Lakota character in oral tradition) is not only decolonizing, but is forward thinking, not only documenting what has happened in the past, but what could potentially happen in the future. Iktomi Methodology uses Tribal Critical Theory to legitimize Indigenous storytelling as valid forms of data and analysis of how to treat Indigenous students. The essay then uses a version of narrative analysis that incorporates a specific Native American character that arises often in stories on how to behave when it comes to dealing with challenges, “Iktomi” becomes the vessel through which educators can question current policy and practices to think differently about supporting Indigenous students in postsecondary education.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-15T11:26:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099563
       
  • An Empiricist Manifesto

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      Authors: Martyn Hammersley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      A call to empiricists to rise up and reclaim reality.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T09:17:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221101602
       
  • Decolonizing the Literature Review: A Relational Approach

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      Authors: Lauren Tynan, Michelle Bishop
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      As two (ab)Original women, we consider how a relational approach to the literature review can reflect our broader Indigenous and decolonizing research methodologies. In our research training, we have been exposed to dominant literature review models that advocate for researchers to “identify the gaps” and “occupy a territory,” a process (and vernacular) that feels at odds with Indigenous, relational, and decolonizing principles. We intend to apply the teachings we have learned from Indigenous scholars to the literature review process by proposing a reframing of the literature review, to one that is relational.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T09:05:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221101594
       
  • “Don’t I Have a Say'”: A Critical Autoethnography on Choice and
           Essentiality-of-Being

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      Authors: Christopher B. Williams
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this autoethnography, I reflect on the last 72-hours of telephonic experiences with my godmother’s decision to live or die before entering a nursing facility. “Don’t I have a say” is a broader critical reflection about older adults’ lack of personal choices with regard to their health care without advance directives and the caregiver’s best interest decision-making approach. The central ideas in this autoethnography illuminate choice theory and the essentiality of being. From my godmother’s point of view, choice theory and essentiality of being highlight the need for her “owning” her health care decision. From my perspective, choice theory offers new perspectives and solutions to best interest decision-making as a potential caregiver. While in the final hours of my godmother’s life, she “owned” the decision; however, years later, I am still processing what happens when a person wills death to have the final say.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-06T11:23:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099974
       
  • The Seven Ages of an Academic Man' (First)

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I use headings from Shakespeare’s Seven Ages of Man speech to structure a narrative about an academic’s progress through his own seven ages.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-06T11:17:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099562
       
  • Perhaps I am Still Waiting for Godot'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this narrative, I use notions from Beckett’s Waiting for Godot to help me reflect on concerns about uncertainty, identity, the advantages and disadvantages of waiting, as well as the strange invention of Godot himself (or her-self).
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-04-22T11:07:31Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221090647
       
  • Performing Orwell in Progress

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      Authors: Norman Conti
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This piece was written, memorized, ripped-up, forgotten, improvised, and rewritten in collaboration with returning citizens, police officers, actors, faculty, students, and other chosen family in the Spring semester of 2021. The work was undertaken within an iteration of Roger Guenveur Smith’s Phi Beta Kappa course Performing History/Biography in Progress, co-facilitated by Susan Stein, that had been blended with a version of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program originally designed for police recruits and incarcerated citizens. Running in a pandemic, during the trial of the former police officer who murdered George Floyd and in the wake of the January 6th insurrection the course became a dialogic exchange in autoethnography where people separated by severe social boundaries could meet in the Zoom platform’s electronic box and overcome social distance.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-03-26T03:43:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221087782
       
  • Common—Reading—Placing—Writing

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I create here another sort-of-life text, a narrative in which I suggest ways in which we could or should practice human approaches to reading and writing. I patch together scraps recovered from the rubbish heap of my own personal and professional history.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-03-09T09:16:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221077711
       
  • Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Why Stories Matter

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      Authors: Susan Cox, Marilys Guillemin, Jennica Nichols, Monica Prendergast
      First page: 247
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.

      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-01T12:43:29Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097641
       
  • Road Trips and Guideposts: Identifying and Navigating Ethical Tensions in
           Research-Based Theater

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      Authors: Jennica Nichols, Susan M Cox, Marilys Guillemin
      First page: 257
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Research-based Theater (RbT) combines research and theater to create novel opportunities for inquiry and knowledge translation. Ethical tensions are part of this process. We explore some tensions that can emerge through three types of ethics: professional ethics, institutional research ethics, and everyday ethics. We then propose a series of ethical guideposts developed by engaging RbT practitioners in reflecting on their practice. Like signs on a highway, ethical guideposts do not mandate a destination but rather flag that an approaching decision needs consideration. These guideposts seek to encourage greater attention to ethical aspects of RbT projects and to support ethical decision-making.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-15T11:36:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099972
       
  • Through a Glass Brightly: Generative Ethical Tensions in Research-Based
           Theatre

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      Authors: Amir Michalovich, Yael Mayer, Laen Avraham Dov Hershler, Laura Yvonne Bulk, Christina Cook, Hila Graf, Michael Lee, George Belliveau, Tal Jarus
      First page: 267
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This qualitative case study methodically explores ethical tensions that arose in the Research-based Theatre (RbT) project, Alone in the Ring (AitR), as a case. We borrowed Elliot Eisner’s set of tensions in Arts-Based Research (ABR), exploring the extent to which they manifested as ethical tensions in AitR. Following analysis of in-depth interviews with key project members, we identified five areas of ethical tension in AitR, adapting Eisner’s framework to account for the ethical dimensions of the tensions, their generative quality, and their temporal and social dimensions, as they manifested in AitR. Complicating Eisner’s general tensions for ABR, this article advances an adapted, RbT-specific framework with meta-language to reflect on the ethical terrain of RbT using the richness and specificity afforded by a case study. The framework is particularly useful for RbT practitioners seeking to maximize the benefits of RbT for knowledge translation, arts-based inquiry, and community engagement.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-01T12:46:46Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097677
       
  • Research-Based Theater in Schools: Ethical Challenges, Conundrums, and
           Choices

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      Authors: Richard Johnson Sallis
      First page: 277
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the ethical challenges which may arise when a research-based theater (RbT) project is undertaken with students in a school or in another educational setting. It focuses on three case studies where I worked as an RbT practitioner with students in a single-sex boys’ school and Pre-Service Teachers (PSTs) in a Master of Teaching program. For over 15 years, I have worked as an RbT practitioner, and I have developed a set of ethical principles pertaining to the writing and the performance of the RbT piece. I discuss in this article that even with such ethical principles in place, unforeseen critical incidents of an ethical nature may arise in an RbT project that may lead the RbT practitioner to reappraise the effectiveness of these principles in their work.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-05-24T05:22:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221098201
       
  • No Bull Here, Please: Ethical Demands and Expectations of Audiences

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      Authors: Christine Sinclair, John O’Toole
      First page: 285
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article is based on a 2007 conference presentation that used Research-Based Theater (RbT) to identify and articulate the ethical questions facing playmakers and audiences, not to provide answers, but to challenge the participants to address them. The authors pose issues of purpose, power, ownership, permission, and audience participation, addressing ethical problems of RbT for performers, audiences, and informants. In the second part of the article, the authors refer readers to the literature to further explore how these issues have been addressed in a range of contexts worldwide . . . and the further questions they raise.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T08:53:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099559
       
  • Romance, Relationships, and Rights: Ethical Considerations and Dilemmas in
           a Research-Based Theater Project With Self-Advocate Co-Creators and Actors
           

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      Authors: Leyton Schnellert, Leah Tidey, Rachelle Hole
      First page: 295
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) are often excluded from conversations about sexual health; when included, well-meaning researchers and support workers often speak for individuals instead of creating opportunities for their voices to be heard. To support the sexual agency of people with intellectual disabilities, who refer to themselves as self-advocates (SAs), we embarked on a Research-based Theater (RbT) project, Romance, Relationships, and Rights, with the goal to address misconceptions of individuals with IDD and sexuality. Throughout the project, ethical tensions percolated from ableist assumptions about “legal capacity,” consent both on and off stage, and conflicting perspectives on aesthetics. Throughout this article, we discuss these ethical dilemmas and offer recommendations for future work with SAs in co-creating RbT through the lens of disability justice and critical disability studies.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T09:03:35Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221101586
       
  • Research-Based Theater in the Pediatric Oncology Setting: Balancing
           Ethical Tensions

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      Authors: Paul Robert D’Alessandro
      First page: 305
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Research-based theater (RbT) in health care and medical education settings generates unique ethical discourses, particularly when involving pediatric patients. Ed’s Story: The Dragon Chronicles (Ed’s Story) is a verbatim play based on the journal of a teenaged oncology patient, and 25 interviews conducted after his death with his family and multidisciplinary health professional team. The development, dissemination, and evaluation of Ed’s Story will be retrospectively analyzed in order to highlight and discuss ethical tensions, with specific focus on tensions related to participants, including Ed and the interviewees; RbT practitioners and researchers; and audiences, namely, medical trainees who participated in mandatory curriculum viewing. Where applicable, similar projects described in the literature will be reviewed in order to highlight strategies to mitigate these tensions.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-05-31T08:38:05Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097637
       
  • Relational and Aesthetic Accountability: Considerations of a
           Research-Based Playwright

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      Authors: Julia Gray
      First page: 314
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Research-based Theater (RbT) is shaped by both the form of theater, as an embodied, gestural, spatial, imaginative multi-dimensional art form, and traditions of research surrounding knowledge production, specifically qualitative research. When ethical tensions and questions arise in RbT they are often framed as a dichotomy, such as the ways aesthetic or artistic interests of creating a compelling piece of theater for audiences contrast with responsibilities to research. By drawing on the frame of an aesthetic of relationality, and an example from my work as an RbT playwright from the project Cracked: new light on dementia, I consider the ways both theater and research might be more clearly aligned. This includes how relational and aesthetic accountabilities can offer an important foundation for considering how RbT might be rooted in caring practices and might influence theater-making and the traditions of scientific research more broadly.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-01T12:51:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221098203
       
  • Out at School: Imagining a Slow Ethic of Care in Research-Based Theater

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      Authors: Bishop Owis, Pamela Baer, Jenny Salisbury, Tara Goldstein
      First page: 323
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article invites us to reconsider how we engage in ethical tensions and decision-making with the stories we are gifted as artist-researchers. Using a verbatim theater piece titled Out at School, we explore three moments of discomfort and growth that moved our collective approach toward a slow ethic of care. Within three ethical moments of dissonance, we investigate how to navigate a slow ethic of care in a project that is iterative and constantly shifting within and against our social and political world. By moving away from the desire for resolution, we argue for a process that understands the need to sit within ethical tensions as a way to commit to an ongoing slow ethic of care. We discuss our process, production, and performance as an invitation to critically reflect on ethical practices in research-based theater and reimagine ways to call in and move forward.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-05-26T06:14:01Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097633
       
  • The Return: Research-Based Theater With and for Ex-Military Personnel
           Experiencing Posttraumatic Stress

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      Authors: Michael Balfour, Linda Hassall
      First page: 332
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article discusses The Return, a research-based theater project about posttraumatic stress, performed by actors and ex-military personnel. The objective of the project was to address the stigma of mental health in the military and encourage psychological help-seeking in the veteran and military population. The play combined verbatim text and dramaturgical re-authoring of material to explore the lived realities of mental health experiences of posttraumatic stress (PTS) in the military. Part of the ethical entanglements encountered lay in calibrating the risk–safety nexus, specifically in relation to questions of authenticity, narrative structure, decisions relating to casting actors and ex-military personnel, and how to negotiate the performance of a personal story of trauma. The article argues that performance is innately a process governed by “edgework” as much as safety, and therefore part of the ethical entanglement lies in the negotiations between risky aesthetics, “safe” spaces, and frameworks that enable critical vulnerability.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-07-21T11:45:20Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221101587
       
  • A Landscape of Ethics in Research-Based Theater: Staging Lives of Family
           Members Who Have Passed

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      Authors: Graham W. Lea, George Belliveau
      First page: 343
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Blending academic and theatrical worlds in research-based theater (RbT) requires balancing academic demands of institutionalized research and aesthetic demands of theater. This duality becomes particularly significant regarding ethics. With so much possibility, it becomes imperative for practitioners to share, and learn from, vulnerable and challenging ethical experiences. This creates landscapes of ethical possibilities for RbT and guideposts for navigating them, established by the field, highlighting well-worn paths, pointing out pitfalls, and noting where few have yet to trod. Contributing to this cartography, we consider ethical questions encountered during development and production of three RbT projects involving family members who have passed: Homa Bay Memories, Brothers, and Unload. In doing so, we question which stories might be best left untold and the evolution of relationships throughout the research. Exploring these together helps to develop a landscape of ethical possibilities and establish guideposts to help illuminate challenges for future RbT projects.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-22T10:18:18Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221098991
       
  • Ethical Implications of Using Research-Based Theater to Challenge
           Hegemonic Narratives About Mental Health

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      Authors: Lauren Spring
      First page: 354
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Many health researchers have started to see the benefits of partnering with playwrights to use theater as a tool to analyze and present complex findings. Such projects about mental health, however, remain few and far between and are especially fraught. This article argues that research-based theater can be an ideal tool for exploring and sharing counter-hegemonic “mad stories”—especially if the plays created can help interrupt, among other things, problematic biomedical narratives about individualized approaches to supporting those who are suffering. This article also incorporates excerpts from the script the author wrote as part of her doctoral thesis project about military trauma to highlight how, guided by mad theory and mad aesthetics, she has creatively woven some of the weightiest ethical conundrums encountered during the research and development process into the play itself, so that, their nuance and magnitude become a critical component of the story being presented.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-06T11:01:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097638
       
  • Engagement, Authenticity, and Advocacy in “Youth Uncensored”: Ethics
           in Applied Theater Research With Street-Involved Youth

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      Authors: Diane Conrad
      First page: 365
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      “Youth Uncensored” was an applied theater project with youth affiliated with an arts-based, nonprofit organization serving street-involved youth. The organization identified the need to educate service providers about the youth’s experiences to better meet youth’s needs. The youth were involved in all aspects of the process of creating workshops for service providers, from generating content for our scenes to devising, rehearsing, and performing scenes for service provider audiences, and participating in forum theater activations, in talk-back sessions, and in evaluating the project. For an evaluation of outcomes for youth, the youth created a 30-min video exploring the projects’ benefits and challenges. Through a close reading of the video, this article addresses the ethical issues that arose in relation to engagement, authenticity, and advocacy. Our ongoing efforts at negotiating this ethical terrain were crucial for the endurance and efficacy of the project.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T09:00:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099567
       
  • The Pull of Opposing Forces: An Inquiry Into the Ethical Dimensions of an
           Emergent Research-Based Theatre Project

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      Authors: Dorothy Morrissey
      First page: 374
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, the author conducts a retrospective interrogation of the ethical issues embedded in the development (over a 5-year period) of a one-woman play, Goldilocks’s Testimony, about the accumulation over time of the organizational processes and practices that marginalize women in workplaces. She describes the play’s developmental trajectory, from conception through to the final performance to date as a serendipitous one. In the article, she explores many of the ethical issues that emerged over the course of this trajectory, some of which became apparent only in hindsight. In her exploration, she attends explicitly to the many opposing forces she negotiated over the lifetime of the project.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-05-24T05:14:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221097059
       
  • Wading the Quagmire: Aesthetics and Ethics in Verbatim Theater Act 1

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      Authors: Wolfgang Vachon, Joe Salvatore
      First page: 383
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The authors draw on their collective decades of theater creating and viewing to expose how they navigate the innumerable ethical and aesthetic enmeshments of verbatim theater. Mirroring the realms in which each writer works, Wading the Quagmire is an edited and manipulated refraction of conversations between the two authors presented through a script-based structure. Each author discusses, describes, and defends their approach, drawing on salient moments from their theater practice, sharing entanglements, and reflecting on the learnings of practice. In the end, the authors resist ethical prescriptions, while identifying the tight rules they work within and the consequences of breaking them.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-06T11:03:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221098988
       
  • Yarning Up Relations: Enacting a Relational Ethics in Cross-Cultural
           Research-Based Theater

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      Authors: Sarah Woodland, Kamarra Bell-Wykes, Carissa Lee Godwin
      First page: 393
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This is a reflection on The Score, a Research-Based Theater (RbT) project that has just begun, and some emerging ethical entanglements surrounding the work. The Score is a collaboration between First Nations and non-Indigenous artists and researchers, produced by ILBIJERRI Theatre Company—a leading First Nations theater company based in Melbourne, Australia. The goal is to create a community-engaged, participatory model for theater in health education that addresses sexual health for First Nations young people, to be delivered in schools, prisons, community centers and community health settings. Drawing on Indigenous and applied theater research methods, our article situates the discussion of ethics in RbT within the concept of relationality. Through a process of yarning (discussion), we explore the complexity of relations within the project and how relationality infuses all aspects of the project design. We argue that this approach is essential in ensuring respectful, accountable, and decolonial theater-research praxis.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2022-06-08T08:57:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221099561
       
 
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