Ten Years of Critical Qualitative Research at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-139
Author(s):  
A. Gomez ◽  
P. Zapata-Sepulveda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research

Critical Qualitative Methodologies

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 482-498 ◽  
Author(s):  
Norman K. Denzin ◽  
Yvonna S. Lincoln ◽  
Maggie MacLure ◽  
Ann Merete Otterstad ◽  
Harry Torrance ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Ethical Practices ◽  
Panel Session ◽  
Global Engagement ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Interactive Paper ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

Critical qualitative scholarship offers humble grounds and many unforeseen possibilities to seek and promote justice, critical global engagement, and diverse epistemologies. This dialogical and interactive paper is based on a panel session at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry that highlighted diverse areas of critical qualitative inquiry, namely justice, difference, ethics, and equity. Authors in this paper share their critical qualitative research practices and provide examples of how justice can be addressed through research foci, methods, theories, and ethical practices.

scholarly journals “Intertwangerlings”: A Multiple (Auto)Ethnography of Journeys, Gentle Collisions-Hard Boundaries, Statues, and Tilt and Turn Gate/Bridges at the 13th International Congress of Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780042091161 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan Hodkinson ◽  
Ella Houston ◽  
Norman Denzin ◽  
Heather Adams ◽  
Davina Kirkpatrick ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
University Of Illinois ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
Way Of Thinking ◽  
New Beginnings ◽  
The University

The article introduces the concept of the “intertwangle,” a concept grounded within the gentle collisions of delegates at the 13th International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of Illinois and the simultaneous retelling of multiple autoethnographies of such encounters. Through such encounters and “retellings,” perhaps a different way of thinking about autoethnography is developed. The article presents a story of a journey to and through the 13th Congress. A journey of no answers and no certainty—this journey is not a collaborative sharing of data but more of the gentle collisions and the recounting of different stories located within shared experiences. It is a simple journey bounded by way-markers of uncertainty, at times self-deprecation, loss, and death. It is a journey of new beginnings, of no ends—of uncertainty rather than certainty, revealing rather than obscuring and expanding rather than reducing.

Work/Think/Play/Birth/Death/Terror/Qualitative/Research

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (9) ◽  
pp. 712-719
Author(s):  
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth ◽  
Pauliina Rautio ◽  
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg ◽  
Travis M. Marn ◽  
Susan Nordstrom ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Educational Research ◽  
Annual Meeting ◽  
American Educational Research Association ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Research Association ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Birth Death

Inspired by work/think/play in qualitative research, we centered the idea of “play” in a qualitative research project to explore what proceeding from the idea of work/think/play might look like and accomplish. We pursued play in an experimental qualitative inquiry over dinner one night at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the American Educational Research Association. Our article centers on one work/think/play inquiry three of us conducted. Through a playful account of how play unfolded in our work/think/play inquiry that evening, we explore research play as generative, deadly, and censored in the context of neoliberalism and other terrors. We reflect on what (good) play does in qualitative research, what our work/think/play/birth/death/terror/qualitative/research accomplished, if anything. Maybe research play is vital, what keeps us fit to do critical qualitative research. Yet research play moves (well) beyond normative rules of much qualitative research. Is it worth the risk? Can we know? Even after?

The Idea of Equality and Qualitative Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-33 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rainer Winter
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Political ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Central Importance ◽  
Late Capitalism ◽  
Core Element ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
The Ideal

With his path-breaking The Qualitative Manifesto. A Call to Arms (2010), Norman Denzin calls for qualitative inquiry to be carried out with the aim of contributing to the empowerment of subjects involved in the research. He pleads passionately and vehemently in favor of a research process that is led by the ideal of social justice. My contribution wants to plead for making radical equality between researchers and research subjects a core element of qualitative inquiries as well. For this purpose, I will turn to the work of the French philosopher Jacques Rancière, who has been largely ignored in qualitative inquiry. His work, though, is of central importance for critical qualitative research. The idea of equality opens up a new and more profound understanding of politics that would allow us to specify the political meaning of qualitative studies in late capitalism more accurately.

scholarly journals Bringing Together a Community of Voices to Debate a Growing Challenge: A Review of Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan Wulff
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Scholarly Journals ◽  
The Third ◽  
The World ◽  
Critical Issues

Editors Norman Denzin and Michael Giardina bring together a collection of leading voices from the Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry to explore political, social, and methodological contexts of what constitutes evidence in qualitative research and suggest a diversification of evidential criteria. The book also demonstrates the community-building abilities scholarly journals can have in networking together peers and colleagues from around the world to contemplate, discuss, and debate critical issues such as those raised in this text.

Bad-Alys and the Bad-Folx: Edge-Dwelling, Hope and How to Get Your Voice Heard

2021 ◽  
pp. 194084472096819
Author(s):  
Alys Mendus
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Collaborative Inquiry ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Early Career ◽  
International Congress ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
Early Career Researcher

I attended a symposium on “Bad Girls” at the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) 2018, looking for inspiration on how to make sense of myself and academia. When I asked, “How can I be a Bad Girl now?” I was told to go and get a job and get published. This autoethnographic piece shares stories of Bad-Alys, an Early Career Researcher trying to get published and finding her place as an academic. This paper was written to inspire the potentiality of change by exploring the concept of multiple selves from Etherington and Speedy, moving away from a binary to position Bad-Folx alongside Barad’s concept of entanglement; as activists and edge-dwellers within qualitative research. This is a paper of hope, offering ways to move-with the current-accepted paradigm of the academy by taking control of your doings as Ahmed would argue, through vignettes of collaborative inquiry, re-envisioning the use of conference spaces and self-publishing.

“Reclaiming” Disability in Critical Qualitative Research: Introduction to the Special Issue

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Nina Lester ◽  
Emily A. Nusbaum
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Disability Studies ◽  
Research Community ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Disabled People ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Critical Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Methodologies

This article introduces the special issue, “Reclaiming” Disability in Critical Qualitative Research, which aims to center disability and disabled people in critical qualitative research. More particularly, we highlight here how the articles included in this special issue collectively consider new possibilities for the place and practice of critical qualitative methodologies and methods in research involving disabled people. We begin this introduction by discussing the meaning of reclaiming disability and foreground the importance of critical qualitative inquiry. Then, we offer a brief discussion of the interdisciplinary field of disability studies and the fruitful possibilities for its generative intra-action with critical qualitative research. In doing so, we also point to the often taken-for-granted ableist practices that have historically been used in qualitative research. Finally, we offer a brief overview of the articles included in the special issue and conclude with a call for consideration of next steps for the qualitative research community.

Interpretation In Qualitative Research: What, Why, How

2020 ◽  
pp. 955-982
Author(s):  
Allen Trent ◽  
Jeasik Cho
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Self ◽  
Validity Evidence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Interpretive Strategies

This chapter addresses a wide range of concepts related to interpretation in qualitative research, examines the meaning and importance of interpretation in qualitative inquiry, and explores the ways methodology, data, and the self/researcher as instrument interact and impact interpretive processes. Additionally, the chapter presents a series of strategies for qualitative researchers engaged in the process of interpretation and closes by presenting a framework for qualitative researchers designed to inform their interpretations. The framework includes attention to the key qualitative research concepts transparency, reflexivity, analysis, validity, evidence, and literature. Four questions frame the chapter: What is interpretation, and why are interpretive strategies important in qualitative research? How do methodology, data, and the researcher/self impact interpretation in qualitative research? How do qualitative researchers engage in the process of interpretation? And, in what ways can a framework for interpretation strategies support qualitative researchers across multiple methodologies and paradigms?

scholarly journals Do It for the Culture: The Case for Memes in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 ◽  
pp. 160940692110258
Author(s):  
Constance Iloh
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Cultural Relevance ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Rapport Building ◽  
Everyday Communication ◽  
Remote Data

Memes are a prominent feature of global life in the 21st century. The author asserts that memes are significant to current and future qualitative research. In particular, the text establishes memes as: (a) part of everyday communication, expression, and explanation, thus useful in qualitative research; (b) valuable cultural units and symbols; (c) forms of rapport building and cultivating relational research; (d) approaches that bolster and sustain remote data collection; (e) methods that infuse agency, humor, and creativity into the research process. The author then showcases distinctive ways memes can be effectively incorporated in qualitative research pursuits and publications. The article concludes with the necessity of data collection and representation approaches that advance the meaningfulness and cultural-relevance of qualitative inquiry.

The Power of Constructivist Grounded Theory for Critical Inquiry

2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 34-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathy Charmaz
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Grounded Theory ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Methodological Individualism ◽  
Constructivist Grounded Theory ◽  
Critical Inquiry ◽  
Critical Questions

The pragmatist roots of constructivist grounded theory make it a useful method for pursuing critical qualitative inquiry. Pragmatism offers ways to think about critical qualitative inquiry; constructivist grounded theory offers strategies for doing it. Constructivist grounded theory fosters asking emergent critical questions throughout inquiry. This method also encourages (a) interrogating the taken-for-granted methodological individualism pervading much of qualitative research and (b) taking a deeply reflexive stance called methodological self-consciousness, which leads researchers to scrutinize their data, actions, and nascent analyses. The article outlines how to put constructivist grounded theory into practice and ends with where this practice could take us.

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