Main description:

Positioned within and against our changing pandemic conditions, Global Shifts in Qualitative Inquiry highlights multidirectional pathways between and across moments, formations, and interpretive communities within qualitative research.

Contributors focus on a range of prevailing and emerging approaches that are held together by a commitment to a critical, performative, social justice inquiry-to method as praxis, method as a tool for social change, method to effect change in the world by creating texts that move persons to action, that move from personal troubles to public institutions. These include art as research, story as research, collage as method, performance, posthumanism, Indigenous methods, and the use of absurdity to counter oppression.

Global Shifts in Qualitative Inquiry will resonate with faculty and students alike who are interested in forging new directions for qualitative inquiry in our ever-evolving pandemic times.

Contents:

Introduction: Global Shifts in Qualitative Inquiry 1. Absurd Homescapes: Flipping the Script through Justice Oriented Qualitative Research 2. Pandora's Box: Revisiting Notions of Hope through Story 3. A Black Quartet II: Collaboratively Performing Transformative Visions 4. Developing Civically Engaged Art Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a (Post?) Pandemic World 5. Collage as Method 6. Almost the Lily: Posthuman Performance, Radical Botany, and Trans-species Embodiment 7. Indigenous Land-based Research Method: A Journey of Relearning Ceremonies in Rethinking Environmental Science Education 8. Intellectual Sharecropping and the Tenure and Promotion Process