Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge

This volume is a call to qualitative researchers to respond to the political and methodological conservativism of the new millennium. Based upon the plenary papers at the first International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, 22 scholars from five countries and many academic disciplines address how qualitative inquiry can maintain its forward-looking agenda, its emphasis on ethical practice, and its stance in favor of social justice in a world where conservatives aggressively control the political system, the university, and grant agency purse strings. Contributions by such noted scholars as Patti Lather, Janice Morse, Linda Tuhiwai Smith, Ernest House, Yvonna Lincoln, and H.L. Goodall, Jr. make this an important benchmark work for all involved in qualitative inquiry. Part One The Politics of Evidence; Chapter 1 Chronotopes of Human Science Inquiry, George Kamberelis, Greg Dimitriadis; Chapter 2 This IS Your Father’s Pardigm, Patti Lather; Chapter 3 Guarding the Castle and Opening the Gates, Katherine E. Ryan, Lisa K. Hood; Chapter 4 The Politics of Evidence, Janice M. Morse; Chapter 5 Methodological Fundamentalism and the Quest for Control(s), Ernest R. House; Chapter 6 The Challenge of Tailor-Made Research Quality, Julianne Cheek; Chapter 7 Research Quality and Research Governance in the United Kingdom, Harry Torrance; Part Two Decolonizing Methodologies; Chapter 8 Choosing the Margins, Linda Tuhiwai Smith; Chapter 9 A Postcolonial Critique of the Ethnographic Interview, Radhika Viruru, Gaile S. Cannella; Chapter 10 Decolonizing Qualitative Research, Elsa M. González y González, Yvonna S. Lincoln; Chapter 11 Humble and Humbling Research, Carolyne J. White; Part Three Contesting Regulation; Chapter 12 Affirming the Will and the Way of the Ancestors, Cynthia B. Dillard, Adrienne D. Dixson; Chapter 13 Writing Race into the Twenty-First Century, Cameron McCarthy; Chapter 14 Qualitative Inquiry and the War on Terror, H. L.GoodallJr.;