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Qualitative Inquiry
Journal Prestige (SJR): 0.691
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Number of Followers: 33  
 
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ISSN (Print) 1077-8004 - ISSN (Online) 1552-7565
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  • Inviting Me In

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      Authors: Johnny Saldaña
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Saldaña outlines the influence Norman K. Denzin had on my academic and artistic career.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-09-13T08:36:17Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231197842
       
  • “Norman as Academic Shane”

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      Authors: Bryant Keith Alexander
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      On hearing the news of Norman Denzin’s death, the author engages a performative reflection, as film analysis, comparing the character of Shane from the 1953 Western movie to Norman Denzin. A social justice theme is played out in the text, keying in on Norman’s commitment to analyzing the Western motif.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-09-13T08:34:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231199402
       
  • Post-Academia: Life, Liberty, and Happiness'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this narrative autoethnography, I reflect on living in Post-Academia. First, I discuss how universities have become more managerial and less collegial. Then, I consider my own move from being an academic to becoming a post-academic (even verging on the post-humous). Finally, I look at the possibilities of living a sort of flourishing life in post-academia, enjoying a new sense of liberty, and accepting, despite increasing decrepitude, enough happiness to see me through.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-09-13T08:32:37Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231198017
       
  • The AcademicAssessmentMachine: Posthuman Possibilities of/for Doing
           Assignments and Assessments Differently

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      Authors: Carol A. Taylor, Jacob Huckle
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article brings a posthuman approach to assignments and assessments as they are configured in and by normative practices in educational institutions, including schools and universities. Composed as a collaborative posthuman autoethnography, we use the figuration of the AcademicAssessmentMachine to illuminate how educational assessment-as-usual positions, hierarchizes, grades, and disposes human bodies—both teachers and students—in ways that are affectively damaging and socially unjust. In rethinking educational assignments and assessment as a more-than-human affair, we swerve its purpose and doings toward more affirmative possibilities. We ask how might we disrupt the AcademicAssessmentMachine while being caught within it ourselves'
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-09-13T08:30:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231196186
       
  • Transcorporeal Witnessing: Re-Figuring Toxic Entanglements Through the
           Arts

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      Authors: Claudia Eppert, Diane Conrad
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article seeks to extend discourses of embodiment by deploying Alaimo’s concept of transcorporeality in the context of our grappling with complexities of bearing witness to deforestation and ecological destruction in Alberta’s Tar Sands. Transcorporeality captures senses of porosity among human, nonhuman, and more-than-human bodies and constitutes a productive perspective from which to ethically engage with ecological destruction. Through our artwork and dialogic exchange with each other, and our embodied thinking with the works of other artists and scholars concerned with ecological atrocity, we attend to challenges, nuances, and possibilities of witnessing in ways that both attune to our embodiment and seek to decenter the human. We contend that arts-based practices of being, knowing, and doing offer openings for re-figuring the toxic entanglements that pervade current ecological relations and illustrating pathways toward more regenerative futures.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-09-02T06:12:52Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176764
       
  • Academic Writing Otherwise: A Rumination

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this rumination on academic writing otherwise, after Taylor and Benozzo, I address a number of important issues they raise. These include notions such as the academic-writing-machine, authorship, writership, and postauthorship. Throughout the article, I compare and contrast their views with examples from a variety of sources including some of my own articles. I especially comment on the fitness of autoethnography, bricolage, postacademic, and quasi-posthumous writing as well as academic ranting as examples of writing otherwise.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-31T08:30:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183947
       
  • Writing About Dance: Representations of Strength in the Struggle for
           Social Justice

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      Authors: Kendra Lowery
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how I grappled with questions about the meaning, purpose, and process of playful writing to represent a dance performance based on the oral history narrative of Sybil Jordan Hampton, the sole African American enrolled in her class at Little Rock Central High in Arkansas from 1959 to 1962. Through the presentation of six moments from the dance that I captured through photographs, I explore the possibilities of writing about dance using graphic art to invoke critical reflection and social justice-oriented action, rather than solely as a representation of the dance performance. I examine the complexities surrounding playful writing, layered representations in writing about dance that represents lived experience, and consider whether nontraditional text presented as graphic art enhances the potential for meaning making about social justice action.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-28T08:41:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231193761
       
  • “Positioning” Analysis With Autoethnography—Epistemic Explorations
           of Self-Reflexivity: Introduction to the Special Issue

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      Authors: Heike Greschke
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      (Auto)ethnographic positioning analysis is a new approach that mobilizes the demarcation between evocative and analytic autoethnography and combines the strengths of both with positioning theory. It is considered a suitable methodology for addressing the ongoing crisis of ethnography, understood as a continuing expression of the moral explosiveness of ethnographic relations in a socially divided and connected world. This introduction outlines the special issue’s line of argument and justifies its goal and contribution to the persisting crisis of ethnography. The individual contributions are presented, focusing on how each study “positions” analysis autoethnographically and what this indicates about the respective research fields.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-23T08:50:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231193762
       
  • Putting “Us” in Place: A Contrapuntal “Position” on Research
           Access in Over-Researched Contexts

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      Authors: Patricia Ward
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article centers the labor aid workers perform to manage researchers in the humanitarian aid sector in Jordan. It examines how workers move and manage researchers’ bodies (including the author’s) as part of their daily job routines. Drawing from sociological and postcolonial scholarship on labor and the body to document the latter highlights multiple “knowledge producers” that shape and contest data collection in this context. The goal in describing this process is twofold. First, this article seeks to elaborate understandings of power relations in data collection processes, particularly in postcolonial settings considered over-researched. Second, it aims to broaden the scope and utility of analytic reflexivity through contrapuntal thinking about researchers’ positions in the research process.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-23T08:48:10Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231193767
       
  • A Self-reflexive Positionality to Navigate the Invective Latency of
           Ethnographic Relations: Insights From Lebanon and Germany

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      Authors: Irene Tuzi
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Positionality has become increasingly important in ethnographic and autoethnographic research. The recent “reflexive turn” in migration studies has encouraged scholars to discuss the concept from different perspectives (e.g., gender, ethnicity, and class). Yet, positionality is relational: It is the result of ongoing interactions between how researchers present themselves in the field and how research participants perceive these presentations. Because self-positioning and positioning of others are mutually bound to each other, positionality reflects a continuous negotiation between actors who may be motivated by different interests. For this reason, it is necessary for researchers to analytically reflect upon the implications of these mutual positionings to more fully understand how to navigate research fields. This is especially important for sensitive research fields—like migration and forced migration—characterized by inequalities, hierarchical structures, and unequal power relations. The present article uses insights from fieldwork conducted among Syrian refugees in Lebanon and Germany between 2017 and 2019 to show how configurations of “humanitarian paternalism” and researchers’ false expectations to save the world can frame positionality as a meta-invective action. Positionality informed by self-reflexivity can help to explore the invective latency of field relations and let contradictions, discomfort, and disharmonic elements emerge. This does not mean that field relations will become more equal and that power structures and inequalities will be reduced as a result. However, being aware of these invective elements offers the opportunity to explore a level of analysis that is often overlooked and make steps toward decolonizing research methodologies and knowledge production.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-23T08:45:07Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231193764
       
  • Slow News From Nowhere and Other Utopias'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this extension to Scribbling Towards Utopia, I concentrate on two authors who make their own utopian strivings key features of their work: William Morris, the English socialist, and John Dewey, the American philosopher and liberal educator. I also borrow ideas from Jasmine Ulmer’s Writing Slow Ontology to suggest that our utopian hopes will, if ever, only be attained slowly and not quickly.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-14T09:38:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231188059
       
  • Heirs of the Enlightenment'

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I select a number of Enlightenment figures and suggest that, despite inevitable contradictions, they should still serve as exemplars for a modern age of a series of values such as freedom, tolerance, and social justice. I believe, however, that The Enlightenment is, nevertheless, a work in progress.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-08-03T08:07:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186583
       
  • The Hustle: How Struggling to Access Elites for Qualitative Interviews
           Alters Research and the Researcher

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      Authors: Clementine Collett
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      When conducting qualitative research on elites, researchers often face issues regarding time-constraints, power asymmetries, and rapport building. In this article, I outline the methodological concept of “the hustle” so that we might better understand how these issues intersect and how the difficulty to access elites for interviews alters research and researcher. The hustle is defined as the pushing or jostling of the qualitative researcher in the face of resistance to access research settings or participants. Inspired by my own hustle when researching elites who design AI recruitment technology (AI-rec-tech), I argue that the hustle has four major effects: first, it requires the researcher to act as networker; second, it influences how much data can be collected; third, it dictates research design; and fourth, it alters interview dynamics. The hustle is an important conceptual umbrella which draws together themes which have arisen in qualitative research on elites for decades.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-27T08:32:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231188054
       
  • Blurry Lines: Reflections on “Insider” Research

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      Authors: Laura Yvonne Bulk, Bethan Collins
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Insider research poses a range of benefits and challenges for researchers and the communities being researched. It is commonly advocated for disability research but there is limited work exploring disabled researchers’ experiences. Influenced by autoethnography and through a process of asynchronous structured conversations, we reflected on our experiences as two blind researchers. Through our collective reflective process and analysis, we created three main themes: insider research is complex and subjective, there is judgment about the “right” thing to do, and insider research requires “different” work. We argue that insiderness is more than sharing characteristics: it is a situated, fluctuating, and “felt” experience. The complexities, judgments, and emotional labor associated with insider research can challenge researchers in potentially very personal and unexpected ways. We propose that further investigation is required about how researchers can best prepare for, engage ethically throughout, and be supported through the insider research process.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-22T09:25:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231188048
       
  • Global Trains of Thought: Coupling Derailment, Environment, Racism,
           Movement, Progress

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      Authors: Kurt Borchard
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article is an assemblage of thematically inter-relatable quotations promoting critically oriented, non-linear complexity of thought. The quotes concern: recent derailments and safety protocols; what trains carry; ideas about linearity, sequence, and simultaneity; environmental issues; trains used in genocide, race-based segregation and exploitation, and immigration; trains communicating art, symbols, and meaning; and quotes from literary figures, artists, and social theory. A central question emerges: Do the contents and arrangements of our (ever longer) cause-and-effect chains together constitute globally indeterminate, unanticipated consequences and both random and systemic interconnectivity, bridging industrial and post industrial eras, networks, and concerns'
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-21T07:18:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186570
       
  • Methodological Considerations for Endarkened Narrative Inquiry

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      Authors: Keondria McClish-Boyd, Kakali Bhattacharya
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article extends the previous conversation around endarkened narrative inquiry, a culturally situated approach informed by Black feminist thought, womanism, endarkened feminist epistemology, and narrative inquiry. In this article, we reclaim narrative in the context of a methodological process that centers Black women-centric ontoepistemologies, informed by theoretical perspectives and existing literature, to focus on Black women’s ways of storying their lives. We also discuss the creation of wisdom whisper as a methodological consideration for data collection. Finally, we reflect on the methodological mentoring and negotiations that took place to culturally situate this methodology and offer a method of inquiry aligned with a Blackness-centered framework of analysis.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-19T08:21:49Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186565
       
  • Polyvocal Poetry: Learning to Teach Amid Crises

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      Authors: J. Scott Baker
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article examines the perspectives of 18 preservice teachers in a Midwest, USA university teacher preparation program through poetic inquiry. The polyvocal poetry, created from the transcripts of two focus groups, explores the emotional health and well-being of preservice teachers in their field placements amid crisis, such as the COVID pandemic, systemic racism, and the resulting mental health and financial strains facing students in the aftermath. This article further contemplates a researcher’s need to maintain authenticity while working closely with evocative data to construct polyvocal poetry.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-18T08:25:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186569
       
  • Justice Can Never Arrive: The Opening of the Call to Social Justice in
           Qualitative Inquiry

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      Authors: Serge F. Hein
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Most qualitative social justice research is guided by a critical theory–based understanding of justice, which conceives of justice as something that can be achieved, made present. For Derrida, however, justice can never arrive, be present; it is in fact impossible. Justice always exceeds our specific expectations of the future. Derrida’s second definition of deconstruction, which deals with the unstable relationship between justice and law, is examined, followed by a discussion of the deconstructibility of the law and the undeconstructibility of justice. Derrida’s concept of justice is ontological, whereas critical theory’s concept of justice is epistemological. For Derrida, and continental philosophy in general, however, epistemology has its ultimate basis in ontology. An important implication of Derrida’s concept of justice for critically informed qualitative social justice research is that justice cannot function as a guiding principle or ideal. Thus, the call to justice is an infinite one that researchers can never satisfy.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-18T08:23:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186564
       
  • Multi-Method Qualitative Text and Discourse Analysis: A Methodological
           Framework

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      Authors: Audrey Alejandro, Longxuan Zhao
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The growing interest in combining different approaches to qualitative text and discourse analysis has so far not been met with adapted methodological resources. This article aims to address this gap by developing a methodological framework for combining qualitative text and discourse analysis. First, we introduce four traditions that we identify as four families of methods of text/discourse analysis with different logics: Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Qualitative Content Analysis. Second, we review the literature to show how these methods have been combined across disciplines and case studies. Third, we build upon existing literature to unpack the benefits and challenges of multi-method text/discourse analysis, and offer strategies to help navigate the problems that may arise. Overall, this article introduces multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis (MMQTDA) as a methodological framework to provide guidance and offer solid foundations for an emerging methodological conversation in qualitative text research.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-14T11:47:44Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231184421
       
  • “Connecting the Dots”: Developing a Doctoral Qualitative
           Community of Practice

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      Authors: Ioannis Costas Batlle, Kia Banks, Josie Rodohan, Bryan C Clift, Sheree Bekker
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article focuses on the development of a community of practice (CoP) for qualitative doctoral researchers at the University of Bath (UK). Although the sources of support that qualitative doctoral researchers can access have grown substantially across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and South Africa (e.g., supervisor meetings, discrete courses, and standalone workshops), they generally remain “disjointed,” forcing qualitative doctoral researchers to individually navigate these “siloed” sources. In this article, we describe our solution to the problem—creating a doctoral CoP capable of “connecting the dots”—by drawing on 3 years of experience leading the CoP. We focus and reflect on our facilitation approach, session design, and challenges faced with the goal of sharing “best practice.”
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-12T06:34:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183943
       
  • Saturation: An Overworked and Misunderstood Concept'

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      Authors: Malcolm Tight
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      All qualitative researchers are familiar with the idea of saturation: that researchers should continue to collect and/or analyze data until nothing new is being added to their arguments or conclusions. Saturation is, however, used and understood in a variety of ways, often appearing as an unevidenced and dogmatic statement seeking to justify that a piece of research is complete. This article explores the application of the idea of saturation in qualitative research, noting its association with grounded theory and the particular interest taken in it by health researchers. It concludes that it is both a misunderstood and an overworked concept.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-11T10:13:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183948
       
  • Red Thread Dancing Feather Dreaming

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      Authors: Darlene St. Georges, Alexandra Fidyk
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      We offer a dream dance in visual, metaphoric, and haptic image by engaging creation-centered poetic inquiring as a unique rendering of embodied reflexivity through the arts. Our lyric text, a songscape, framed by the interplay of chorus and storying verse, enacts the movement and mood of a dance. Red threads and feathers, as partners, symbolize the voice and agency of entities becoming within the complex relational-ecologies with whom we live. This songscape advances creation-centered research by demonstrating Whitehead’s ontology of becoming—process prioritized over substance—where bodily feelings provide the earthen richness through which images, emotions, hopes, and thoughts emerge. Working from modes of reflexivity within animate paradigms advances relational consciousness by foregrounding agential landscapes, ancestors, psychscapes, and our dependent co-arising. Here, relational consciousness reveals Nature—in all its forms—as a co-creative.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-04T08:52:03Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176102
       
  • Arts–Research Collaboration: Reflections on Collaboration as
           Creative Method

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      Authors: Jennie Morgan, Shelley Castle
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      What is arts–research collaboration and how does it work' What does arts–research collaboration as method for qualitative inquiry do' What is the effect of collaboration on creative practice and academic research' Drawing on a collaboration between an anthropologist and an artist, this article addresses a surprising lack of qualitative inquiry into collaboration between creative practitioners and academic researchers. By recounting how the authors developed and used collaboration as method, the article identifies and analyzes underpinning qualities of how they worked together through arts–research activities. It advances existing debate by agitating for more theoretically grounded accounts of collaboration, including those that take a processual view on making and creativity to argue for considering collaboration, itself, to be materials from which creative practice and outputs emerge.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-04T08:41:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176280
       
  • Reducing Methodological Footprints in Qualitative Research

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      Authors: Mirka Koro, Jennifer Wolgemuth, Ethan Trinh
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This conceptual paper proposes that all methodologies create a footprint like the carbon footprint. Design and implementation of new methodologies require limited resources and funding, and these resources are not equitably distributed on a global scale. Thus, we argue for more ecological uses of methodologies, especially in the context of data collection and interdependent relations of knowledge/information creation. Like the excessive use of energy sources, potentially unnecessary productions of new data, information, and evidence should not be regarded as unproblematic, let alone virtuous. Rather, qualitative researchers, funding agencies, and other bodies that evaluate research, should question whether new data, information, evidence are needed and at what cost. We also propose more data recycling, data sharing, open access data, and other ecological ways of supporting shared knowledge and monitoring excessive data production.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-07-03T06:03:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183944
       
  • Beautiful Mis/takes

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      Authors: Jee Yeon Ryu
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In the following three fragments, I illustrate how I am learning to practice reflexivity through the arts—with a story, piano improvisation, and poem—to evoke possibilities for more empathetic and humanistic ways of teaching and learning that embody what truly matters at the heart of children’s lived and living experiences of exploring music and piano playing. I integrate text, digitally edited photographs, and music video as artistic expressions of my praxis toward more heartful, healing, and joyful ways of teaching and learning.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-21T05:29:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176089
       
  • Composting Storytelling: An Approach for Critical (Multispecies)
           Ethnography

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      Authors: Riikka Hohti, Tuure Tammi
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Stories produce bodies that produce stories in an endless intra-active metabolic continuum. Stories do not only represent material worlds but also shape and make new worlds. Starting from these premises, this article develops “composting storytelling,” a methodological approach to heterogeneous, open-ended, small stories interwoven with everyday interaction. Drawing on years-long ethnographic work in a school greenhouse, and multispecies and critical animal studies literature as well as feminist storytelling, the authors develop a twofold argument. First, composting storytelling can be mobilized as a critical research approach in which critique emerges along with horizontal movement from closer, warm assemblages to more distant or erased, cool assemblages. Furthermore, multispecies storytelling can inform the broader field of qualitative research by positioning the ethnographer and the field in a relationship characterized by a hesitant ethics of knowing. The study draws attention to the polyphony of voices and temporalities, foregrounds intra-active transformation, and suggests a more modest position for the human protagonist.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-12T06:43:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176759
       
  • Water Stories

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      Authors: Celeste Nazeli Snowber
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This poetic article explores the relationship between water and ecology and how an embodied awareness and insights surface out of the practice of swimming. The connections between the inner and outer landscapes of waterways and the land are written into being as they nourish embodied resonances. Moving and writing are inextricably linked and open a syntax of poetry and prose founded in the rhythm of a swimming practice. Themes of yearning, longing, timelessness, existence, and creativity emerge out of these visceral explorations. The article integrates poetry and photographic images of the author’s swimming practice. Water stories is situated within the methodologies of embodied inquiry and poetic inquiry and supports the intersection and layers between what it means to think, move, and write in performative ways.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-09T06:24:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176277
       
  • Multiverse, Feminist Materialist Relational Time, and Multiple Future(s):
           (Re)configuring Possibilities for Qualitative Inquiry

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      Authors: Nikki Fairchild
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Critical feminist materialist theorizing opens up possibilities for enacting different ways of knowledge making. In this article, I connect feminist materialist inquiry with time and temporality to develop a line of inquiry to reimagine the nature of multiple future(s). Employing theorizing developed by Francesca Ferrando, Karen Barad, and Donna Haraway, and thinking with the concepts of Multiverse, spacetimemattering, and agential cuts, I develop the concept of feminist materialist relational time as a methodological possibility for inquiry. Using examples from my own and others’ scholarship, I propose that feminist materialist relational time articulates ways in which affirmative and transversal ethico-onto-epistemologies can reconsider power, mattering, enactment, and exclusions, creating multiple future(s) for qualitative inquiry. I argue that the entanglement of past/present/future as events and forces in flux highlights the multiplicity of temporality where past/present/future are now, then, immanent, processual, always already in the making, and formed of intra-acting bodies.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-09T06:22:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176753
       
  • Different Together: A Poetic Reading of Arts-Inspired Creations as
           Embodied Explorations of Social Cohesion

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      Authors: Daisy Pillay, Kathleen Pithouse-Morgan, Inbanathan Naicker
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      We, a diverse group of South African academics, study embodied reflexivity through poetry, and this article is an account of poetic inquiry inspired by assemblages created by the participants in a symposium, Object Inquiry for Social Cohesion in Public Higher Education. As the symposium’s cofacilitators, we wondered how and what we might learn from reading the assemblages poetically as embodied explorations of social cohesion. We describe the symposium before demonstrating how we used poetry to represent, analyze, and synthesize our responses to the assemblages. Through the presentation of dialog pieces derived from our discussions, we articulate the collective growth and development of our understanding. Then, we share a final poem, which encapsulates our learning. Finally, we consider how this poetic study could help us and others in higher education seeking to understand and strengthen social cohesion and social justice.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-05T08:02:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176099
       
  • Accessing Embodied Knowledges: Poetry as Culturally Relevant Pedagogy

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      Authors: Sepideh Mahani
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Poetry is an act of embodied reflexivity because it interweaves our perceptions and emotions with acts of cognition, to make sense of the world we live in. It allows us to uncover the lived experiences of our body in a direct and an unapologetic way from the inside out. In this article, I reflect on times that writing poetry and engaging in poetic inquiry empowered me to share stories and depict moments that shaped me. It allowed me to make sense of my bodily experiences as an educator, a researcher, and an Iranian–Canadian woman hoping to promote awareness of social injustices in my motherland. It guided me as I encouraged minoritized students to consider poetic inquiry as a way to access and understand their embodied experiences. In this way, I will discuss how poetic inquiry is a culturally responsive approach to creating new knowledges as it fosters reflexivity, amplifies student voices, and encourages students to share their lived experiences while seeking social justice.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-05T07:19:45Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176104
       
  • Writing Through Pain: Ars Spirituality, the Black Atlantic, and the
           Paradox of Diasporic Belongingness

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      Authors: A. Lamont Williams
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      By way of autoethnographic poetry, I reflect on my personal struggles related to racial consciousness as I embarked on a journey—from America, across the Atlantic, and eventually, to the Indian Ocean off the East Coast of (mother) Africa. The story of my apparent racial crisis is viewed through multiple lenses, as I infuse the pivotal readings of The Black Atlantic, Lose Your Mother, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, and personal experiences both in autoethnographic and in poetic form.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-05T07:14:28Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176096
       
  • Entangling Reciprocity With the Relational in Narrative Inquiry

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      Authors: Bodil H. Blix, Jean Clandinin, Pamela Steeves, Vera Caine
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we develop, through drawing forward fragments of our experiences, a concept of reciprocity as always situated within the relational ontology of narrative inquiry. Reciprocity is most commonly understood within a transactional sense, an exchange of goods. We show important aspects of reciprocity in narrative inquiry, including the importance of intentionally creating and responding to spaces where reciprocity occurs and can be sustained over time and place, and the potential reciprocity holds to change who we, and those with whom we work, are. As we reconsider the ways in which reciprocity is not understood as a transaction in a relational methodology, new questions about the entanglement of reciprocity and recognition emerge. We understand that recognition does not necessarily have to be reciprocal, but recognition is necessary to compose a space where reciprocity can live in our ordinary interactions with others.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-05T07:05:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231172227
       
  • Nine Women: Collages of Spirit-Collages of Self

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      Authors: Indrani Margolin, Abbey Jones
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Collaging invites the twists and turns of meaning-making and insight. This Reflexive Inquiry illuminates the collages of nine artist women and celebrates the potency of harnessing Creative Consciousness through meditation, collaging, and dialogue. We aim for balance between juxtaposing evocative imagery, poetic rendering, responding with creative critical social justice understanding, and humility in this undertaking to evoke feeling and insight. The metaphor of the canoe crossing the river illustrates this journey. The fiercely powerful women in this inquiry were provided a pathway to heal from internalized injustices, empower themselves to take positive action, and discover a harmonized state from within.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-03T08:13:36Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176103
       
  • Salsa Rhythms and Soul Connections

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      Authors: Rebecca J. Lloyd, Stephen J. Smith
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The rhythmic interplay of accent, tempo, and musical mood is expressed in the bodily postures, gestures, and expressions of attuned responsiveness in Salsa Dura, a genre of salsa music from the 1970s featuring improvisational dance solos. These dancers embrace the feelings and flows of soloing musicians going off and breaking free from any predictable form and structure. We inquire into how world-class salsa dancers and educators feel themselves moved by such intricate rhythms to experience soul connections. Video recordings and interviews yield insight into the call and response dynamics of this essentially tactful practice of alterity.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-03T07:14:55Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176094
       
  • Impossible Perfection: A Storytelling Reflection

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      Authors: Thomas W. Gretton, Anna Farello, Thomas O. Minkler, Jasmine Caya, David W. Eccles
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This storytelling reflection article presents the psychological preparation of elite Rugby Union referees in the buildup to competition through a creative nonfiction story. Based on data from 15 individual referee interviews, we present referee experiences of psychological preparation through a co-created, creative nonfiction story titled Impossible Perfection. The primary aim of this article is to contribute to understanding about the lived experiences of refereeing at the elite level and in particular the role of psychological preparation in elite referee performance, by showcasing Impossible Perfection in full. Second, we present research team reflections on the key themes woven throughout Impossible Perfection and elaborate on what these themes may communicate about the experiences of elite referees. Finally, we comment on the utility of creative nonfiction as a method and reflect on its efficacy for investigating elite referees.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-02T11:26:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176763
       
  • Fleshing Out the Embodied Potentialities of Positionality

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      Authors: Sandeep Kaur Glover
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Through this pulsating textual exploration, I viscerally uncover the potentialities of positionality and reflexivity in the context of research and pedagogical practice by tending to the emergent tensions of my own lived/living body. I weave in and out of the interstitial intimacies of embodied, performative, and living inquiries in situating myself amid my multi-identities and social locations to unearth how embodied arts-based approaches cultivate sensorial, cultural, and critical consciousness and invite multidimensional representations of human experience that transgress fixed dichotomies of insider/outsider status in qualitative research. This sensorial inquiry dwells in the in-between sites of breath and bone, ambiguity, and paradox, to reveal how embodied arts-integrated inquiries offer transformative possibilities for (re)humanization, healing, and social justice in arts-based and qualitative research and educational practice.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-02T11:21:38Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176100
       
  • The Art of Data Analysis: Disturbing Knowledge and Performing Critical
           Inquiry

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      Authors: Mirna Carranza
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Using theater and performance, the building of “We are not the Others” brought into discussion—How does the researcher ethically “code” data to re-present the stories of Women Immigrants who are understood as the Other to achieve the social justice goals' This article explores these questions and asks, “What is the purpose and politics of an embodied performance of/by the Other for White audiences'” These questions framed the processes of creating the re-telling of stories and were integral to the ethical engagement of audiences in a way that drew them in, to understand their own implications.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-06-02T11:16:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176282
       
  • Research With Marginalized Communities: Reflections on Engaging Roma Women
           in Northern England

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      Authors: Lydia Hubbard, Michael Hardman, Olivia Race, Maria Palmai, Gyula Vamosi
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article critically explores research with marginalized communities. We provide an insight into our work with the Roma community, reflecting on innovation, opportunities, and barriers, alongside the need for more work in this area. A particular focus here surrounds novel methodologies for exploring the health and well-being of such groups and ways of co-producing research. This article also raises awareness around arts-based social prescribing with marginalized communities and the need to upscale work in this regard. Through doing so, we hope to influence practice, raise awareness around work with the Roma community and enable more creativity within the broader field.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-30T08:28:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176770
       
  • Reintegration as Border Pedagogy: A Female Text

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      Authors: Lorie C. Wright
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Adult literacy learners often survive on the periphery while holding burdens of invisible barriers. In this article, I explore the border between those in the mainstream and those seeking reintegration and community. Finding resonance with artography, I resist methodological enclosure just as the individuals I work with resist the boundaries that attempt to define them. Emboldened by critical arts-based research, I employ artography to examine my experiences as an adult literacy facilitator supporting formerly incarcerated women. Through metaphorical, poetic, and artful inquiry, I explore a border pedagogy, reaching for a shift in consciousness. Understanding borders as the barrier that separates formerly incarcerated learners from mainstream community, I have attempted a pulling of threads to unravel and then re-stitch an understanding (of) the lines that (no longer) blindly hem us in.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-27T08:05:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176087
       
  • Online Interviews as New Methodological Normalcy and a Space of Ethics: An
           Autoethnographic Investigation into Covid-19 Educational Research

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      Authors: Hongming Fan, Bingqing Li, Truly Pasaribu, Raqib Chowdhury
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Worldwide travel restrictions during the Covid-19 pandemic abruptly changed the norms of conducting qualitative research. Online interviews, long regarded as a second choice to their offline counterparts, are no longer seen as supplementary since they emerged as the dominant mode of data collection during the pandemic. This study employs an autoethnographic approach to investigate the authors’ experiences of adjusting to alternative methodological approaches. The investigation critically reflects on how the author’s agencies in allocating and gathering instructional, social, and economic resources led to a researcher identity reconfigured by choices in making ethical commitment in data collection. This article also sheds light on how the authors, constrained by limited resources, gained better understanding of ethics in practice through negotiation with participants and obtained rich data by exercising their agencies. The article argues that researchers need to place both online and offline methods on equal footing to facilitate a more ethically sensitive approach to data collection.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-26T11:06:15Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176283
       
  • Emergence: (Un)Common Intervention

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      Authors: Malvika Agarwal, Sandra Poczobut
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Emergence: (Un)common Intervention is a video that introduces a multimodal, interdisciplinary, and sensory art installation created by the artists, educators, and PhD students Malvika Agarwal and Sandra Poczobut. The composite of moving images and photos portray various iterations of the installation. The video captures a sensory aspect of the art, which reflects on the role of emergence and intra-action in engendering embodied reflexivity as a way to advance socially just pedagogies. It serves as an invitation for educators, students, and artists to consider collective processes of embodied reflexivity in their work through artistic undertakings in education.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-26T06:49:54Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176273
       
  • Teddy’s Loquats

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      Authors: Janette Graetz Simmonds
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this narrative poem, the author reflects on the passing of a personal childhood era in seeking food for lunch on school days.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T12:54:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176761
       
  • Competition and Collaboration in Higher Education: An (Auto)Ethnographic
           Poetic Inquiry

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      Authors: Áine McAllister, Nicole Brown
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Higher education is in flux with more precarity, a stronger focus on effectiveness, and productivity having resulted in a competitive and hostile culture. For this article, we take a proactive approach to counteract the narrative of silencing by exploring the opportunities collaboration may afford. Drawing on our personal experiences, professional knowledge, and research, we engaged in a collaborative form of poetic inquiry. Our contribution in this article lies with the links we make between collaboration, creativity through autoethnographic poetic inquiry, and translanguaging. This approach constitutes a model for collaboration which counteracts the silencing impact of the contemporary competitive academic culture.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T12:52:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176278
       
  • An Upwell Near Father’s Day and Some Thoughts on Embodied
           Reflexivity

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      Authors: David W. Jardine
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article interweaves recent personal, embodied, often deeply emotional events regarding kin and rivers and memory with reflections on how inquiry into such things summons up mixed and contested ancestors and the joyous, sometimes-painful, difficult task of working through such things in the art of writing.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T12:50:53Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176090
       
  • Every Seashell Is a Story

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      Authors: Ellyn Lyle
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Living and being with/in education is messy work because we are necessarily products of the worlds we inhabit. Photopoetic inquiry helps us navigate the messiness by drawing us into images where we might contemplate the accompanying text while writing our way into new understandings. This intertextuality explicitly encourages the integration of self and subject and reveals what is hidden while concurrently encouraging us to let go of rigid constructs that limit us. Thinking here of Bill Pinar’s self-shattering and emancipatory reaggregation, I wonder in the attached video how consciousness of lived and living curriculum can help us engage with empathy and understanding when we encounter realities not our own. In opening up these spaces for critical consciousness, photopoetic inquiry cultivates social conscience and becomes central to our pursuit of rehumanizing praxis.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T11:10:19Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176093
       
  • Merging Eco-Literacy, Visual Poetry, and Arts-Informed Practices: A
           Curriculum of Eco-Justice Education

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      Authors: Andrejs Kulnieks
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Writing poetry over finger-paintings that are created with natural dyes is an embodied reflexive practice that can help students connect with ideas about eco-justice as they develop a deeper relationship with the Earth. As Kimmerer (2013) explains, “The exchange between plants and people has shaped the evolutionary history of both” (p. 124). Writing practices also shape who we are becoming. Through the creation of visual poetry, I investigate the importance of engaging with language and landscapes to develop relationships with one another.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-24T11:07:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176105
       
  • The Gift of Loss: A Rhizomatic Connection Journey

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      Authors: Christine L. Cho
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this piece, I explore how embodied reflexivity stop moments, juxtaposed with the photographic f-stop, inform the various stages of my creative process. Through deconstruction, fragmentation, and reconstruction of my images, I work to navigate and embrace loss to reconnect with myself as artist/daughter. Through the lens of my father’s camera, I engage in a form of relational consciousness: hearing his voice guide my composition and technical approach to my images and then freeing my consciousness to create on a more visceral level using the interdisciplinary approaches that are the foundation of my art making. I detail how my process became a form of conversation through the lens as well as a rhizomatic healing journey. Throughout, I question how dominant society regulates and controls how and what we grieve, who is grieved, and I advance the idea that grief and loss should be embraced as a gift.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-20T11:29:42Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176097
       
  • Ethics Beyond the Checklist: Fruitful Dilemmas Before, During, and After
           Data Collection

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      Authors: Maja Nordtug, Marit Haldar
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we aim to contribute to current discussions about ethical conduct in qualitative research practice. We provide examples of how ethics is a recurring issue throughout a research process and not just an issue to safeguard procedurally. The examples on which we build our argument are based on three research projects from two countries, namely, Norway and Denmark, focusing on three different groups, namely, the elderly, parents, and children. Through our analyses of these ethical dilemmas, we aim to provide reflections on dilemmas encountered in three different qualitative research projects at three different stages, specifically before, during, and after data collection. We thus provide a way for researchers to frame their work with ethical dilemmas as a continuous process beyond the checklist. Furthermore, we frame complex ethical dilemmas as something not to avoid but as a continuous part of a fruitful analytical process.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:52:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176088
       
  • Scribbling Toward Utopia

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      Authors: Graham Francis Badley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I first invoke Joan Didion’s essay “Slouching Towards Jerusalem.” Her concern was to move away from the dystopia that parts of the United States had become through drug use and other temptations toward a more utopian state. My attempt uses a number of examples where utopias have been imagined and some where the main lesson is cautionary rather than optimistic. Even Sir Thomas More’s Utopia had its faults while the East German vision of a socialist utopia collapsed into tyranny and farce. My scribbles are modest attempts to promote a just society, a kind of utopia—maybe.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-19T05:44:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165465
       
  • Con Artist: Non-Cosplay Participation at Popular Culture Conventions as an
           Arts-Based Method of Inquiring Into Resistance and the Undoing of Rules

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      Authors: M’Balia Thomas
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I conduct an inquiry into my participation as an African American woman at two popular culture conventions, the 2017 Dragon Con (Atlanta) and the 2018 annual general meeting of the Jane Austen Society of North America (Kansas City). Through a methodological approach to Con-ing—attending a popular culture convention—as arts-based inquiry and utilizing techniques of autoethnography, I inquire into my participation in spaces that, while intended to be havens of adult play, reproduce and reinforce discourses and material practices that can limit the play and participation of marginalized Others.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-18T12:04:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176095
       
  • In Motion: An Adaptation of Enriched and Inclusive Audio Description
           Practices

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      Authors: Carolina Bergonzoni
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In Motion is an audio-described video piece that applies techniques from audio-described museum tours. The piece, sound recording, and audio description were done by the author, allowing for an enriched audio description, which combines the practice of verbally describing images with sound recordings and personal insights from the author/describer. I propose that audio description (AD) can advance social justice since it can only exist if it includes disability justice and provides an opportunity for embodied reflexivity through art-based practices. In Motion is representative of how accessibility can be part of the creative process and not an afterthought. It also shows how audio description can advance social and disability justice.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-18T11:55:11Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176092
       
  • Relational Ethics Through the Flesh: Considerations for an Anti-Colonial
           Future in Art Education

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      Authors: Nicole Rallis, Shannon Leddy, Rita L. Irwin
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we reflect on our teaching practices that include the development of an artist-in-residency program in one teacher education course and one graduate course in the Fall of 2022 at The University of British Columbia. During these residencies, Carrier Wit’at artist and printmaker Whess Harman and Indigenous scholar and a/r/tographer Jocelyne Robinson of the Algonquin Timiskaming First Nation demonstrate through their art practices how love and land are central tenets to relational ethics. We engage with Cherrie Moraga and Gloria Anzaldua’s theory in the flesh alongside the artists-in-residencies as we consider an anti-colonial future in art education. We propose the concept of relational ethics through the flesh as a reflexive, embodied, social justice–oriented way of being in the world.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-18T11:53:12Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231176091
       
  • Haecceity Altercation: Thisness as Pedagogy

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      Authors: David A. G. Clarke
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I write into the haecceity of recent events in and around my teaching in environmental education to explore the concept of thisness as pedagogy.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-04T06:23:22Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231172224
       
  • The Logic of Posthuman Inquiry: Affirmative Politics, Validity, and
           Futurities

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      Authors: Scott L. Pratt, Jerry Lee Rosiek
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Empirical research informed by posthumanist philosophy is proliferating in the social sciences. This research takes many forms and is willfully pluralistic and creative in the analytic approaches it takes. The innovation, however, is not entirely free form. Posthumanist scholarship both employs familiar forms of inference and is also forwarding a distinctive array of inferential practices that until now have not been commonly present in mainstream/whitestream social sciences. Attending to the logic of emerging posthumanist empiricism can help clarify the affirmative ethics and politics of posthumanist inquiry. This essay offers that a modal, dialethic, paraconsistent logic of action is more suited to posthumanist inquiry than a classical logic of representation. This logic of action locates validity not with the accuracy of representations, but in the specific character of the futurities enabled and disabled by the ontologically generative action of inquiry. Implications for an axiology of posthumanist empiricism are explored.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-05-03T12:55:34Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231162075
       
  • The And Article: Collage as Research Method

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      Authors: Victoria de Rijke
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In 1994, Denzin and Lincoln suggested an immediate future for qualitative research, very akin to collage. This article begins by examining a seminal early collage work by Kurt Schwitters and ends with an example of the author’s own meta-collage as a means of exploring the model as both a “borderlands epistemology,” an art form, and a research practice. Claims for collage’s potential for rich data collection plus iterative, inclusive, critical practice are made, as with that of bringing the “unthought known” using synecdoche and serendipity to the surface, championing arts-based, “And” methods.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-28T11:53:58Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165983
       
  • Methodology in Motion: Reflections on Using Appnography for the Study of
           Dating Apps

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      Authors: Corey W. Johnson, Luc S. Cousineau, Eric Filice, Diana C. Parry
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article reflects upon and provides updates to appnography as a methodology for the study of dating digital app culture. Based on empirical fieldwork and in-depth nterviews with members of the research team, we re-assess and re-map appnography’s original five methodological considerations—digital versus “real,” profiles, space, place, and community, contextualization, and temporality—along two axes: design considerations and user considerations. We also add a third methodological axis, researcher considerations, to the methodological features of appnography and expound on its related concerns of participant recruitment and technological familiarity. With this reformulation, we believe appnography offers an even more robust means of bridging the ethnographic and the technological in qualitative research on apps and their use.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-28T11:52:59Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163166
       
  • Rewriting Social Science: The Literary Turn in Qualitative Research

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      Authors: Martyn Hammersley
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In the past few decades, there have been efforts to transform qualitative inquiry, drawing on resources from both imaginative literature and art. There have long been tensions within social science that have encouraged the use of these resources, but the recent “literary turn” is more radical. The assumptions underpinning it are examined, and it is argued that what is most important is the purpose for which modes of expression are employed and how well they serve this. The problem with the literary turn is that it frequently involves substitution of the purposes of art or politics for those of social science.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-24T12:31:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165981
       
  • Image Technologies and Visual Methodologies: Reflections,
           Experimentations, and Future Redirections

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      Authors: Vivek Vellanki
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      More images have been made and circulated in the last decade than in all of the 20th century. This is a startling yet obvious fact that illustrates the central role that images have come to play in contemporary life. However, technological changes in image-based practices have outpaced methodological responses to these transformations. In this article, I reflect on some of the drastic transformations that have occurred over the last two decades within the realm of image-making, image-circulation, and image-engagement. I ask: How are emerging tools and practices of image-making and image-circulation shifting how we understand and use visual methodologies' How might an engagement with the works of contemporary artists offer insight into methodological concerns and offer possible methodological responses' To answer these questions, I place artistic works in conversation with scholars who address methodological concerns. I focus on two key aspects of image-based practices: the nature and structure of cameras, and the form of the image alongside the modalities of engaging, circulating, and analyzing images. In each area, I identify a focal artist and a scholar whose work(s) can respond to emergent concerns. Through this dialogue, this article brings to light emergent concerns for scholars interested in engaging with visual methodologies.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-22T11:47:32Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165467
       
  • The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews With
           Children Online: Methodological Explorations Based on a Critical
           Ethnography

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      Authors: Pengfei Zhao, Peiwei Li
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we engage with the concept and theories of “affordance” in the adoption of digital tools to perform qualitative inquiry. We first raise the question of what is afforded when we use online digital tools such as Zoom to interview young children (5–10 years old) and then draw on empirical examples from our multi-sited critical ethnography with transnational Chinese children to illustrate our key methodological points. We lay out three dimensions along which the concept of affordance can be conceptualized: the relational, the embodied situational, and the social-cultural. We discuss the potential to map out a critical approach to enable qualitative researchers to practice reflexivity in technology-mediated qualitative research.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-13T12:22:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165464
       
  • Beyond Good Intentions in Special Education Policy: Engaging With Critical
           Disability Intersectional Research

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      Authors: Adai A. Tefera, Gustavo E. Fischman
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article describes critical disability intersectional qualitative approaches aimed to not just analyze but also contribute and transform special education policy research. We specifically examine the shortfalls of education policies that construct race and disability as essentially separate and distinct characteristics, failing to consider students’ intersectional identities. By utilizing findings from a case study of a suburban school district that struggled with multiple forms of racial disparities in special education, we demonstrate how a critical disability intersectional qualitative approach can generate new understandings of policy processes by shedding important light on the dual nature of disability.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-12T08:12:33Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231165461
       
  • Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative
           Inquiry

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      Authors: Pengfei Zhao, Jessica Nina Lester, Trena Paulus
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we think with the ongoing conversations on “embracing digital worlds” through juxtaposing the methodological practices enabled by “digital worlds” with the writings of science fiction. Specifically, we leverage the criticality of a Chinese sci-fi text, Folding Beijing, to shed light on issues of equity and justice in qualitative inquiry. This approach allows us to interrogate, problematize, and trespass the boundaries of the digital worlds as well as the underlying digital infrastructure. We discuss three types of boundaries that shape our use of digital tools/spaces: broadband internet accessibility, the borders of language, and universal design and digital inclusion.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-12T08:10:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163157
       
  • Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in
           Qualitative Inquiry

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      Authors: Susan Naomi Nordstrom
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article is a tangle of threads made possible by theoretical and practical snags in my work with qualitative inquiry technology. One snag pulls at the term “technology” and its etymology to think about technology as a creative system used in the production of knowledge. That snag leads to a study of early anthropological work and technology to better understand the history that feeds into qualitative inquiry. And another snag considers who and what is involved in the making of technological tools used in research. These unraveling snags entangle together to consider technology as an open-ended system consisting of a variety of tools used to create political, cultural, and social realities. Such thinking offers a space to contemplate how technological advances have shaped qualitative inquiry’s past, present, and future. The forceful snags studied in this article begin to ask the question, “Can we think of qualitative inquiry without technology'”
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-05T05:49:50Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163501
       
  • Enabling Crip Time With Digital Tools in Qualitative Inquiry

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      Authors: Darcy E. Furlong
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Grounded in the intersectional principles of disability justice, this article attends to the integration of digital tools in qualitative inquiry. With a focus on the unique temporal landscapes of Disabled people, I suggest ways that digital tools can foster a more equitable, accessible, and just inquiry experience. Using personal accounts from two digital tools, I highlight the relationship between crip time and digital tools at the sites of (a) video conferencing platforms, and (b) qualitative data analysis software. This is balanced alongside scholarly debates about access friction (i.e., accommodations are not universal or stagnant) and the digital divide.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-04T09:39:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163534
       
  • Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities,
           Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart

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      Authors: Allison Jeffrey, Holly Thorpe
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, we draw upon the ethico-onto-epistemology of feminist new materialisms to reflect on our experiences as feminists doing research on women’s embodied experiences of sport, fitness, and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic. For qualitative researchers around the world, COVID-19 presented a radically changed research environment. For many, the shift to doing digital interviews required the navigation of unfamiliar technologies and experimenting with different strategies for establishing connections through computer screens. As feminist scholars, working together and with the participants during times of increased stress and uncertainty prompted us to reimagine our ethical research practices. In this article, we engage and extend Rosi Braidotti’s writing on affirmative ethics and offer our personal experiences of grappling with the affective intensities of pandemic while doing ethical feminist research. Through this creative inquiry, we describe supporting one another through research and illustrate how the unique intersections of work, family, health, isolation, and exhaustion were influencing our own and participants’ lives differently. Engaging with Braidotti’s writings on affirmative ethics in the posthuman convergence, we illuminate the ways that our digital-material experiences and the human/nonhuman aspects of the research processes were re-turning our ethical considerations. Researching together, with a focus on creating space for the voices of women who have been disproportionately affected by COVID-19, we found moments of hope and joy as we creatively imagined expansive potentials for feminist research, fostered through caring collaborations.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-04-04T09:34:48Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163497
       
  • Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research

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      Authors: Sarah Panofsky, Lisa Hartwick, Marla J. Buchanan
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores the potential and pitfalls of approaching Indigenous research as settler scholars in an attempt to redress the intergenerational damage of colonization on Indigenous culture and to contribute to a process of healing. We consider Indigenous historical trauma and survivance, and their intersections with Western psychological models and Western research paradigms. We then work with the principles of Indigenous Storywork (Archibald, 2008) to consider our own complex engagement in Indigenous research to bring to light how a profound commitment to relational ways of knowing and being are required elements of culturally appropriate and culturally safe psychological research.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-29T04:54:06Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163537
       
  • Ode to Museum Indians: In Honor of Ishi, James Luna, and the Dakota
           Pipeline Resistance

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      Authors: Norman K. Denzin
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      A two-act play/performance text inspired by James Luna’s performance of “Ishi: The Archive Performance”: Boston, July 2014, text courtesy of Elena Creef; see also Johns (2014).3 Contrary to Theodora Kroeber, Ishi’s story did not end with the publication of her book Ishi in Two Worlds (1961; also Kroeber and Kroeber, 2003). In fact, Ishi has had multiple lives since he died. Here are some of them. In fact, he became an indigenist rights activist participating in the Dakota Access Pipeline Protest (2022).
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T12:49:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004221149983
       
  • Making the Just: Critical Inquiry for Different Publics

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      Authors: Aaron M. Kuntz
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      I argue that inquiry, ethics, and justice extend a critical and dynamic relation, the force of which might charge an affirmative process of making a difference; productive challenges to normative convention that resonate on ontological levels. When considered within the material processes of crisis and grieving, the productive entanglement of inquiry, ethics, and justice is granted important direction, lending a critical entry point for confecting a difference through challenging the status quo such that it loses repetitious traction.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-27T01:14:08Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163160
       
  • Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue
           of School Readiness

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      Authors: Christopher P. Brown
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Globally, policymakers, researchers, and educational advocates continue to promote normative neoliberal policies that frame the issue of school readiness through financial terms. Such an interpretation appears to require quantitative research to participate in policy and research conversations around this issue. In this article, I seek to disrupt this policy logic by examining how critical qualitative policy research can study the issue of school readiness and generate policy knowledge to address this complex issue. I also discuss how critical qualitative policy researchers can continue to produce useful knowledge and tangible policies through their work to change the current neoliberal policy world.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T08:37:24Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163167
       
  • Conducting Case Study Research to Address the Continued Crises: A Process
           of Learning to Employ Decolonial Perspectives to Produce a Flourishing
           Academic Lifeworld

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      Authors: Christopher P. Brown
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      In this article, I rethink the process of training emerging scholars to engage in the act(s) of conducting case study methodology using decolonial orientations within the critical paradigm. Doing so creates the opportunity for me to make obvious the challenges of conducting research in this era of never-ending educational, environmental, and health crises. It also provides me with the opportunity to consider actions that researchers and instructors can take to generate and support critical qualitative practices throughout the research process to produce work that addresses these issues as well as fosters an academic lifeworld that allows such work to flourish.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T08:34:23Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163165
       
  • Embodying Affective Intra-Actions Online: Enacting Posthuman Methods in
           Virtual Spaces

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      Authors: Shannon A. B. Perry
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article explores how the posthuman concepts of affect, intra-action, and diffraction helped me reimagine collaborative inquiry, a traditionally place-based action research method that emphasizes human affect as the root of all personal becoming, for an online context and posthuman world. I begin with a brief introduction to posthuman philosophies and the ways a 21st-century world increasingly mediated by digital technologies may be considered a shared posthuman present reality. Next, I look to the literature to show how scholars in digital contexts have used and created posthuman concepts, exploring some of the methodological implications of emerging posthuman perspectives for qualitative research, particularly in online spaces. Considering the insights various posthuman studies offer my attempts to design a virtual collaborative inquiry, I suggest an artful and embodied heuristic for starting from human experience to better understand and to create digital posthuman worlds.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T08:27:13Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163164
       
  • Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a
           Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do'

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      Authors: Robert Donmoyer
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Policymakers tend to be suspicious of qualitative research. Distrust of qualitative work is especially acute when a researcher openly embraces critical perspectives and is oriented toward critiquing privilege and providing the sort of knowledge that helps set the stage for challenging the status quo and creating more just and equitable social contexts. The first part of this article uses an adaptation of autoethnographic methodology and the personal essay genre to suggest how all types of qualitative researchers, including those whose research is informed by critical perspectives, can influence state policy. In the second part of the article, the focus shifts to the local level. This part of the article describes a process designed to promote dialogue across differences and generate at least a modicum of consensus about policies that should be adopted and implemented within an organization.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T08:25:43Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163155
       
  • The Ethics of Naming in Forced Displacement Research: Critical Work and
           Policy Labels

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      Authors: Karamjeet K. Dhillon, Jasmine B. Ulmer
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      With a pedagogical aim, we offer an overview of some, though certainly not all, of the potential initial framing considerations in forced displacement research. We then engage with several of the key terms currently in use by international agencies before discussing how those terms can be (re)interpreted as they are taken up in transnational contexts. In attending to the ethics of naming throughout, we suggest that terms developed by international policy bodies should be approached situationally in disasters as part of humanitarian aid. Just as document-specific definitions need not go beyond the document, situation-specific terms should not become oppressive labels that have the potential to stigmatize people for the rest of their lives. Thus, we caution against assigning such terms as fixed identity categories, as they have the potential to reduce a person to a situation in which they may have once found themselves.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-25T08:24:14Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231162070
       
  • Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s:
           Exploring Methodological Consequences of Digital Research Workflows

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      Authors: Jessica Nina Lester, Trena Paulus
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article offers an overview of a special issue that focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the digital tools and spaces that we use and the methodologies and methods that we take up in designing and carrying out a qualitative research study. In this editorial, we situate the special issue in the methodological literature around technologies and qualitative inquiry. We also provide an overview of the seven included articles, noting how each article offers new perspectives on the consequences of adopting digital research workflows.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T11:21:57Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163163
       
  • Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy
           Knowledge and Change

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      Authors: Gaile S. Cannella, Christopher P. Brown, Yvonna S. Lincoln
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      The broad goal of this special issue of Qualitative Inquiry is to demonstrate how critical qualitative inquiry (CQI) can facilitate the performance of justice-oriented public policy by conceptualizing movement beyond the logic of policy as prescription. The articles demonstrate the multiple possibilities generated through CQI for rethinking ethical perspectives, discourse practices, and forms of inclusion and policymaking processes, as well as research methods. Furthermore, authors in this special issue illustrate ways that CQI can lead to reconceptualizations of conventional research practices, knowledge and perspectives that dominate fields of study, and forms of communication and activism with policymakers. Finally, some of the authors literally use recent pandemic and environmental disaster circumstances to call for rethinking the ethics and actions that ground CQI.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T11:15:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163162
       
  • Lifting the Veil: Utilizing Critical Qualitative Inquiry to Demystify the
           Public Policymaking Process

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      Authors: Sosanya M. Jones
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Public policymaking processes in the United States have often been characterized as veiled and lacking transparency. This article explores how critical qualitative inquiry can be used to examine the public policymaking process in ways that help demystify the process and open it up for interrogation and critique for greater democratic engagement. Critical questions are raised about which parts of the public policymaking process are hidden and underexplored and how researchers interested in advancing knowledge, justice, and empowerment for communities of color can use critical qualitative inquiry to “unveil” components of the process for greater advocacy and civic engagement.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T11:10:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163161
       
  • Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy

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      Authors: César A. Cisneros-Puebla
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Nowadays, multivocality has been discussed as if it were a criterion for evaluating the quality of qualitative research, as well as if it were the practice, style, or format of narrative research itself. Grounded in Bakhtin’s legacy, the need to incorporate multivocality as a key element of critical qualitative inquiry as a whole is raised. Thus, multivocal critical qualitative inquiry (MCQI) is proposed as an opportunity to build democratic possibilities for a practice that operates on the threshold of new realities that emerge through the conjunction of alternative interpretive methodologies and emerging social movements of protest. MCQI is then outlined as an avenue for the gestation of public policies despite the fact that the real links between citizen actions of protest and government responsiveness have hardly been rigorously explored. Sympoiesis and pluriversal politics are the theoretical and epistemological perspectives of such conjunction nourished by inquiry practices such as creative subversion, creative activism, and militant research. To exemplify the ways in which MCQI practices can be thought, seven projects were selected from a worldwide production: two projects on ecological issues and environmental care, three in the area of urban planning and democratization, and two around the sensitive problems of refugees, exiles, and migrants. MCQI may constitute a crossroad for the best and most committed inquiry practices nurtured by the interpretive traditions of the social sciences in its ties to struggles for the destruction of all kinds of epistemic, social, political, racial, economic, ecological, cognitive, and legal injustice.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T10:52:16Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163159
       
  • Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Influence of Changing Voices
           and Bodies on Legislative Spaces

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      Authors: Magdalena Martínez
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      Gender, race, and ethnic demographics have shifted and emergent policymakers are entering state legislatures. My work seeks to extend the role of critical qualitative research by examining emergent policymaking spaces and the new actors. I illustrate how praxis is witnessed in action in policymaking spaces to create change. I propose critical methodologies can be used as analytic anchors to offer an understanding on how progressive policymakers resist and succeed in policymaking spaces. Critical qualitative methodologies offer ways to explore spaces of praxis, insider/outsider in policymaking spaces, critical consciousness, and actors’ policy ways of knowing.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T10:42:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231163154
       
  • Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios

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      Authors: Diego Palacios-Díaz, Herman Moreno-Londoño
      Abstract: Qualitative Inquiry, Ahead of Print.
      This article aims to describe a new coding and data analysis method for qualitative researchers, especially in education and health inquiry. We label this method Heroic Coding, a proposal for understanding the role of education and health personnel in apocalyptic scenarios. We propose this method as a subtype within Literature and Language Coding methods described in Saldaña’s The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers. Heroic Coding employs, in the first cycle coding, an eclectic strategy and, in the second cycle, an elaborative strategy to refine conceptual dimensions about heroes and heroic subjectivities. This article uses a data set from empirical research in education policy enactments to illustrate Heroic Coding in action. Furthermore, we reflect on future possibilities and limitations of this coding method for qualitative research in apocalyptic conditions.
      Citation: Qualitative Inquiry
      PubDate: 2023-03-21T10:33:56Z
      DOI: 10.1177/10778004231162071
       
  • 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
       
 
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