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Title

Qualitative inquiry and social justice : toward a politics of hope / Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina, editors.

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, c2009

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Additional Authors

• Denzin, Norman K.
• Giardina, Michael D., 1976-

Description

319 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

In increasing numbers, qualitative researchers are leaving their ivory tower perches and entering the fray, focusing their research and actions on the promotion of social justice. In this tightly edited volume of original articles stemming from the 2008 International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, leading figures in qualitative research demonstrate the potential for the research tradition to make contributions to the betterment of humankind.

Subject

• Social justice
• Social sciences > Methodology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

In Memoriam -- Introduction. Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice: Toward a Politics of Hope / Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina -- Sect. I. Ethics, Evidence, and Social Justice -- 1. Deploying Qualitative Methods for Critical Social Purposes / Gaile S. Cannella and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- 2. Four Points Concerning Policy-Oriented Qualitative Research / Frederick Erickson -- 3. Institutional Review Boards and the Ethics of Emotion / Michele J. McIntosh and Janice M. Morse -- 4. Evidence: A Critical Realist Perspective for Qualitative Research / Joseph A. Maxwell -- Sect. II. Qualitative Inquiry in Post-Disaster America -- 5. Education Research in the Public Interest / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- 6. Performing Pedagogies of Hope in Post-Katrina America / Michael D. Giardina and Laura H. Vaughn -- 7. Power-Shifting at the Speed of Light: Critical Qualitative Research Post-Disaster / Gaile S. Cannella and Michelle S. Perez -- Sect. III. Human Rights and Radical Performance -- 8. Dangerous Ethnography / D. Soyini Madison -- 9. Risky Research: Investigating the "Perils" of Ethnography / Karen A. Stewart, Aaron Hess, Sarah J. Tracy and H.L. Goodall, Jr. -- 10. Racializing Ethics and Bearing Witness to Memory in Research / Cynthia Dillard -- 11. Death of a Cow / Jean Halley -- 12. Rethinking Words, Concepts, Stories, and Theories: Sensing a New World? / Ian Stronach -- Coda: Mentoring Relationships: Creating a Future for Qualitative Inquiry / Carolyn Ellis, Tony E. Adams, Laura L. Ellingson, Arthur P. Bochner, Norman K. Denzin, Aisha S. Durham, D. Soyini Madison, Renee Alexander Craft, Ronald J. Pelias, Nicole Defenbaugh and Laurel Richardson.

ISBN

• 9781598744231 (pbk.)
• 1598744232 (pbk.)
• 9781598744224 (hardcover)
• 1598744224 (hardcover)

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Harvard Library