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Critical approaches to qualitative research have made a significant impact on research practice over the past decade. This comprehensive volume of contemporary, original articles places this trend in its historical context, describes the current landscape of critical work, and considers the future of this turn. The book-includes contributions from some of the leading qualitative researchers on three continents;-consists of big-picture articles that describe the dimensions of this research tradition;-situates critical qualitative inquiry in the overall development and landscape of qualitative research.
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Critical Qualitative Inquiry
Critical Qualitative Inquiry Foundations and Futures Gaile S. Cannella Michelle Salazar Pérez Penny A. Pasque Editors
Walnut Creek, California
LEF T COA ST PRE SS, INC. 1630 North Main Street, #400 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 http://www.LCoastPress.com Copyright © 2015 by Left Coast Press, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. ISBN 978-1-62958-011-1 hardcover ISBN 978-1-62958-012-8 paperback ISBN 978-1-62958-013-5 institutional eBook ISBN 978-1-62958-014-2 consumer eBook Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Critical qualitative inquiry : foundations and futures / Gaile S. Cannella, Michelle Salazar Pérez, Penny A. Pasque, editors. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-1-62958-011-1 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-62958-012-8 (paperback)— ISBN 978-1-62958-013-5 (institutional eBook)—ISBN 978-1-62958-014-2 (consumer eBook) 1. Qualitative research. 2. Critical theory. 3. Education—Research. I. Cannella, Gaile Sloan, 1951- II. Pérez, Michelle Salazar, 1979- III. Pasque, Penny A. H62.C697426 2015 001.4'2—dc23 2014046746 Printed in the United States of America The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48–1992.
CONTENTS
Introduction: Engaging Critical Qualitative Science Histories and Possibilities 7 Gaile S. Cannella
Section I: Foundations of Critical Qualitative Inquiry 1. What Is Critical Qualitative Inquiry?
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Norman K. Denzin
2. Foundational Commitments, Intergenerational Knowledge Production, and New Trajectories: Feminist Methodologies
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Lucy E. Bailey and Mary Margaret Fonow
3. Counter-colonial Research Methodologies Drawing upon Postcolonial Critique and Indigenous Onto-Epistemologies
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Jenny Ritchie
Section II: Contemporary Critical Qualitative Inquiry 4. The ‘New Materialisms’: A Thorn in the Flesh of Critical Qualitative Inquiry?
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Maggie MacLure
5. Critical and Poststructural Forms of Inquiry: Social Justice Through Productive Critique
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Aaron M. Kuntz
6. Centering Critical Inquiry: Methodologies that Facilitate Critical Qualitative Research
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Penny A. Pasque and Michelle Salazar Pérez
7. Envisioning a Politically Activist Critical Social Science: Reflections on Reciprocal Mentoring Mark Nagasawa and Beth Blue Swadener
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Section III: Imagining Critical Qualitative Research Futures 8. Critical Qualitative Research in the 21st Century: Challenges of New Technologies and the
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Special Problem of Ethics Yvonna S. Lincoln
9. Vital Illusions, Images, and Education
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Mirka Koro-Ljungberg and Jasmine Ulmer
10. Deploying Qual