1st Edition

Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue

By Norman K Denzin Copyright 2009
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    This collection of recent works by Norman K. Denzin provides a history of the field of qualitative inquiry over the past two decades. As perhaps the leading proponent of this style of research, Denzin has led the way toward more performative writing, toward conceptualizing research in terms of social justice, toward inclusion of indigenous voices, and toward new models of interpretation and representation. In these 13 essays—which originally appeared in a wide variety of sources and are edited and updated here—the author traces how these changes have transformed qualitative practice in recent years. In an era when qualitative inquiry is under fire from conservative governmental and academic bodies, he points the way toward the future, including a renewed dialogue on paradigmatic pluralism.

    Acknowledgments PART ONE: POLITICS 1 Introduction: Qualitative Inquiry as Social Justice 2 Interpretive Research After 9/11/01 3 The Secret Downing Street Memo, the One Percent Doctrine, and the Politics of Truth: A Performance Text—Shelter from the Storm 4 The Elephant in the Living Room or Extending the Conversation about the Politics of Evidence PART TWO: INTERPRETATION 5 The Art of Interpretation: The Stories We Tell One Another 6 The Practices of Interpretation 7 Reading and Writing Interpretation 8 Emancipatory Discourses, and the Ethics and Politics of Interpretation PART THREE: PERFORMANCE AND PEDAGOGY 9 Analytic Autoethnography, or Déjà Vu All Over Again 10 The Reflexive Interview and a Performative Social Science 11 Memory: Lewis and Clark in Yellowstone, circa 2004 PART FOUR: ETHICAL FUTURES 12 IRBs and the Turn to Indigenous Ethics 13 The New Paradigm Dialogues and Qualitative Inquiry

    Biography

    Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communicaitions, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur’s Gaze; The Alcoholic Self, and Performance Ethnography. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Linda Tuhiwai Smith) of Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of three plenary volumes from prior Congresses of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, and founding editor of International Review of Qualitative Research, and editor of three book series.