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`If students and scholars interested in qualitative inquiry have felt that the field of qualitative research has come to a peaceful and dignified academic standstill, then this book will awaken them to a different reality. It brings the message that there is a storm rising on the qualitative horizon, but we do not know when it will hit us, from which direction or what its nature will be' - Nyhedsbrev



The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers a selection of landmark articles from the popular SAGE journal Qualitative Inquiry. These collected works introduce the necessary critical framework that will allow scholars and students to interpret cutting-edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry.





The Reader includes: examples from across the behavioural and social sciences; is divided into five accessible sections: reflexive ethnography, autoethnography, poetics, performance narratives and assessing the text; reflects the ways in which contemporary researchers have implemented the narrative turn in their writing; and contains cutting-edge work by top scholars in the field.

The Qualitative Inquiry Reader

Introduction

PART I. REFLEXIVE ETHNOGRAPHY

1. Research as Relationship - D. Ceglowski

2. Three Short Stories - C. Dunbar

3. Skirting a Pleated Text: De-Disciplining an Academic Life - L. Richardson

4. Circling the Text: Nomadic Writing Practices - E. St. Pierre

PART II. AUTOETHNOGRAPHY

5. Discovering My Mother as the Other in the 'Saturday Evening Post' - E. Creef

6. This I Know: An Exploration of Remembering Childhood and Knowing Now - J. Haley

7. The Next Night Sous Rature: Wrestling with Derrida's Mimesis - C. Ronai

8. On Becoming Italian American: An Autobiography of an Ethnic Identity - R. Travisano

PART III. POETICS

9. A Gift of the Journey - I. Brady

10. Two Microethnographies - M. Nowak

11. The Anthro in Cali - M. Richardson

12. Windows - M. Weems

PART IV. PERFORMANCE NARRATIVES

13. Torch - S. Jones

14. Always Dying: Living Between Da and Fort - R. Pelias

PART V. ASSESSING THE TEXT

15. Negotiated Validity in Collaborative Ethnography - L. Belgrave & K. Smith

16. Criteria Against Ourselves - A. Bochner

17. Writing the 'Wrongs' of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research / Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies - M. Fine & L. Weis

18. The Social Construction of Validity - S. Kvale

19. Emerging Criteria for Quality in Qualitative and Interpretive

Research - Y. Lincoln

20. Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis: Speaking Of / From a Chicana Consciousness - M. Rodriguez