Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire

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