scholarly journals Aesthetic Intervention: Lines of Flight

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472096820
Author(s):  
Susan Mackay ◽  
Gabriel Soler ◽  
Tessa Wyatt
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
European Congress ◽  
Aesthetic Intervention

During the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, Edinburgh, 2019, we offered an esthetic intervention: two spaces open to delegates in which they could explore and express their interactions with the conference through the assemblage of paper, paint, crayons, scissors, glue, glitter, bodies, breath, memories, thoughts—ineffable and effable. Delegates were invited to produce either individual journals, individual pieces, or contribute to large collective pieces of art. In this article, we follow the lines of flight to create the event and reflect on the process that led up to and continued after the esthetic intervention.

Bodyography as Activism in Qualitative Inquiry: The Bodies Collective at ECQI19

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472097014
Author(s):  
The Bodies Collective
Keyword(s):  
Hierarchical Structure ◽  
Academic Discourse ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
European Congress ◽  
The Future ◽  
Mind And Body

If activism is an act of challenging marginalization and hierarchy, The Bodies Collective works to challenge the hierarchy between “mind” and “body” inherent in much academic discourse, and can be witnessed in the conference space. We do this, not through forming another hierarchical structure, but from within—through invitation and inviting those who may be labeled as “participant” to become a leader within each workshop presented. This is the act of activism that The 2019 European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI19) invited. In this article, we discuss how The Bodies Collective’s contributions to ECQI can be seen as activism. We describe our contribution, a workshop, and provide examples of feedback from those involved. Finally, we show some of the challenges we have encountered and conclude with looking toward the future.

Where Does Power Go When No One Wants It: Two New Academics Grapple With the Hierarchies Implicit Within Conference Spaces

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472096819
Author(s):  
Jess Anne-Louise Erb ◽  
Ryan Paul Bittinger
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Active Engagement ◽  
Power Structures ◽  
European Congress ◽  
Conference Presentations ◽  
Resistance To Power ◽  
The Right ◽  
Power Hierarchy

In this article, we provide a dialogical piece of writing inspired by our performative conversation, presented at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry 2019. Emboldened by our activist stance that conference presentations and writings can resist arborescent models that dictate the “right” sort of academic, we seek an active engagement with such hierarchical power structures. By engaging in experiential accounts provided through transcript excerpts from conversations, we show how grappling with concepts like power, hierarchy, and insider/outsider groups within a conference space is alive and complicated. Coming to realize that we are already becoming part of an in-group within this prestigious space, we push against the walls of comfort to show our own resistance to power—while also realizing that denying power is exactly the opposite from what we want academics to do.

scholarly journals Reflections on “Qualitative Research as Activism†3rd European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 111-118
Author(s):  
Marilena Karamatsouki ◽  
Mark Huhnen ◽  
Leah K Salter ◽  
Sarah Helps
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
European Congress

Verslag van het 1st European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

KWALON ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio van den Heuvel
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Kwalitatief Onderzoek ◽  
European Congress ◽  
Zijn Voor

Na twaalf succesvolle internationale edities van het Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) georganiseerd door de universiteit van Illinois viel de eer voor de eerste Europese editie te beurt aan de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (van 7 tot 10 februari 2017). De oudste universiteit van de Lage Landen (1425) en de nog oudere stad Leuven met zijn tot twee maal toe in ere herstelde universiteitsbibliotheek, pas gerenoveerde stadhuis, het Groot Begijnhof en de Oude Markt vormden het prachtige decor voor drie dagen presentaties, posters, symposia, workshops en paneldiscussies over kwalitatief onderzoek. Het straatbeeld van Leuven, dat doorgaans door studenten wordt gedomineerd, was opvallend leeg. Na enige navraag bleek de ‘tentamenweek’ de oorzaak te zijn voor het massaal op kot jagen van een derde van de stadspopulatie.

scholarly journals Collective Temporal Activism as a Game changer for the Academy: Reframing Conference Hospitalities Among Colleagues Under Pressure

2020 ◽  
pp. 194084472096820
Author(s):  
Christian H. Hanser
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Personal Agency ◽  
Major Event ◽  
European Congress ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
Abstract Submission ◽  
Game Changer

In this article, I combine an experiential account of creative conference disruptions with conceptual ideas for inclusive formats in researcher–activist gatherings. Decelerated storytelling sessions to “miss out” on conventional conference flows were facilitated around the wood burner of a shepherd’s hut at the European Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ECQI) 2019 in Edinburgh. Installed as a conference fringe with a counter-temporality, the Welcome Hut entered the program as a “game changer”: a novel pathway for abstract submission offered by ECQI. New ideas to structure events of qualitative research are expressed in order to respond to the challenges for organizers, delegates, and overall conference coherence arising when a major event for nonmainstreamed inquiry grows in scale, popularity, and ambition. As a result of their success, conferences that promise qualitative nonstandardization face the ambiguities that come with growing delegate numbers. I reflect on conference formats that enable rather than disable activist spaces and temporalities. Researcher–activists are invited to explore their personal agency in order to make space for utopian imagination, to allow time for rhythmic contestation, and to experiment with alternative ways to gather, within temporal conference commons. Inclusive pluritemporalities in academia then do not have to remain a privilege for the lucky few.

Vocational Aspirations and Expectations of Court-Mandated Juveniles: A Qualitative Inquiry

2006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy L. Juntunen ◽  
Patti Mahar ◽  
Emilia Boeschen ◽  
Judy Kienas ◽  
Aften Miller ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Court Mandated ◽  
Vocational Aspirations
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