In the present political climate, qualitative researchers can bring rigorous research findings to public communities outside of the academy, directly affect public policies, social justice, education and diversity issues. The contributors of this book form a call to arms for the increasing relevance of qualitative research in the public sphere.
The quality of scholarship introduced at the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is consistently innovative, provocative, and scholarly. This collection of papers represents some of the finest work of international scholars who attended the 13th annual Congress and proposed how to use qualitative inquiry and the different systems of thought that differently shape it to resist the alarming politics of the global right. At once affirmative and urgent, this book serves as inspiration and a call to political action.
Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre, ProfessorofCritical Studies, Educational Theory & Practice Department,University of Georgia
The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) continues to be a major intervention into the ethics and politics of social research. Responding to a felt need for a high quality forum to debate issues of theory, method and social justice, this latest volume of papers from the Congress reflects on the development of the 'research-enterprise nexus' in universities and our own complicity in the development of a research market place. It calls for a focus on the competition of ideas rather than products, and for wider engagement with communities and constituencies which should benefit from the processes and findings of qualitative research.
Harry Torrance, Professor of Education, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
