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Posthuman Creativity: Unveiling Cyborg Subjectivity Through ChatGPT Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Dave Yan
This narrative experiment expands upon Wyatt and Gale’s practice of “writing to it” that involves interactions between humans and an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot named ChatGPT. Building on Haraway’s concept of the cyborg, posthuman creativity opens up a larger space for material-discursive practices, taking account of human and other-than-human forms of agency in the apparatuses of bodily production
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Becoming Ecological: The Contribution of Collaborative a/r/tography to Generalist Primary Teachers’ Agency in Arts Education Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Sarah Brooke, Abbey MacDonald, Mary Ann Hunter
Internationally, it is widely acknowledged that many generalist primary teachers (GPTs) enter the teaching profession with a paucity of arts practice and pedagogic skills. Many perceive a lack of confidence, competence, and community to change this, particularly in regional and isolated teaching contexts. As a means to address this, this article considers the value of engaging in collaborative a/r/tography
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Creative Ecologies in Borderline Personality Disorder Research: Just What the Doctor Ordered Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-03-08 Daniel X. Harris, Stacy Holman Jones, Tamara Borovica
This article draws on the power of creative methods to call for a more collaborative, ecological approach to awareness, education, and research analysis of Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD). Drawing on affect theory and empirical research using a co-creation methodology, we advocate for the power of peer-directed support provision for those experiencing BPD. Through recognition and advocacy for
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“You Think You’re Going to Get Better”: A Creative-Relational Inquiry Into Long Covid and Physical Activity Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 David Carless, Jane Ormerod, Kitrina Douglas, Denise Kan, Rachel Meach, Lawrence D. Hayes, Natalie Hilliard, Joanne Ingram, Jacqueline L. Mair, Marie Mclaughlin, Nilihan E. M. Sanal-Hayes, Nicholas F. Sculthorpe
This creative-relational inquiry explores the lived experience of people suffering from Long Covid. Responding to calls for a publicly oriented qualitative inquiry, we collaborate across an extended project team to develop and share an accessible and engaging performance text which advocates for and supports those who live precariously as a result of contracting Long Covid. We offer our performance
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Both Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Laurel Richardson
A poem for Norman Denzin.
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The Front Edge of an Advancing Wave-Crest: Creative Ecologies and Designing Sustainable Futures Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-29 Daniel X. Harris
This editorial introduces the 15 articles in this special issue entitled “Creative Ecologies: Designing Sustainable Futures” and contextualizes them against a rapidly expanding field of climate and ecological studies, creative and affect theoretics, and a burgeoning array of creative relational methods and methodologies extending 21st century qualitative inquiry. The collection calls for a deepening
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Toward New Understandings: An Overview of Field Development Through Critical Poetic Inquiry Research Methods Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Jericho Hockett, Muffy Walter
This literature review demonstrates that conducting and writing critical poetic inquiry research helps develop research representation, writing, and communication toward new understandings of phenomena—especially in research areas examining issues related to identity. Toward these ends, we first briefly describe philosophies and theories underlying poetic inquiry, beginning with a contrast between
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Patchwork Vectors for the Anthropocene: The Role of Creative Ecologies Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 David R. Cole
Qualitative social inquiry into action on climate change involves understanding the intersections between contemporary social life and the technological development for environmental matters that work in this context. Thus, this article presents a solution in two parts about how to do qualitative research into the climate change action of human populations. Part 1 unravels the complex political and
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A Sentient Planet as a School; a School as a Community Garden: Toward Eco-Creative Think-Practicing Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Mónica G. Rocha-Bravo, Polina Golovátina-Mora
The article revisits the notion of theory as differential becoming with a diffractive reading of two practices through/with each other: the curricular project of environmental education in Colombian schools and walking through Colombian volcanic selva. The article discusses both experiences as a practice of being-of living knowledge. Such knowledge is not just practical, functional, or instrumental;
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Sexuality-Assemblages, Hyphens, and the In-Between Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Toni Ingram
Sexuality-assemblages emphasize a relational more-than-human approach to conceptualizing the becoming of sexuality. This article brings together Fine’s notion of “working the hyphen” with a new materialist ontology of sexuality, to explore the space and form of the hyphen within the sexuality-assemblage. In “working” the sexuality-assemblage hyphen, I explore the onto-epistemological space it inhabits
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Ways That Qualitative Researchers Engage in “Technological Reflexivity”: A Meta-Synthesis Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Trena M. Paulus, Elizabeth M. Pope, Kyle L. Bower
While the use of digital qualitative methods has increased, we do not yet know to what extent researchers are engaging in intentional reflexivity around the consequences of this shift. In this systematic thematic synthesis, we analyzed journal articles that reported use of digital methods for data collection. We found four circumstances in which authors reported engaging in “technological reflexivity”
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A Transcultural Teacher’s Creative Ecologies: Poetry-ing the Entanglements of Institutional Privilege and Love’s Care in a Melbourne College Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Jack Tan
This article is a transcultural teacher’s critical autoethnography of entangled privilege and care in a university residential college. Using prose poetry as poetic inquiry, I write the entanglements of institutional privilege and love’s care in a college. I write my pedagogical subjectivity evocatively, where I am interdependent with my creative ecologies of humans and environment. In this article
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Creative-Relational Inquiry: Institutional Threat, Fortitude, and Flying Like a Brick Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Fiona Murray, Jonathan Wyatt
Creative-relational inquiry has what is called a “center,” the Center for Creative-Relational Inquiry (CCRI, Sea~cry), at the University of Edinburgh. We are two of the center’s co-directors. Sea~cry is an institution within an institution. It had its 5-year university review in 2022. The experience and (successful) outcome of that review process has left us troubled. Our concern prompts us to write
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Collaborative Creative Engagements as Drivers for Re-imagining Classrooms and Pedagogies Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Natalie Tacuri, Mindy R. Carter, Layal Shuman, Daniel X. Harris, Christopher Blomkwist
This paper presents a study examining how pre-service teachers understand and experience the limit(s) of classroom creativity in a Canadian higher education class. Participants first completed a modified version of the Harris Creativity Audit to assess their preliminary understandings of creativity policies and practices, as well as perceptions of the value and feasibility of incorporating creativity
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Developing Methodologies for Co-Production of Knowledge: Data Production and Analysis in Community-Based Research Partnerships Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Molly Victoria Shea
This article reports on the development of a local methodological innovation that supports the co-production of knowledge side-by-side with community-based research partners. In addition to conducting critical ethnography, Shea reports on how educators within an after-school community science program and a researcher developed practices to surface community educators’ values, demystify the data analysis
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“I Wish I had the Confidence of a Mediocre White Man” Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-12 Graham Francis Badley
In this narrative, I trace several elements encased in a recent article entitled ¿Quien Soy Yo? These include issues connected with personal and collective identity, feelings of alienation, feminism, confidence, and assertion. There is also a deep implication that some higher education academies do not try hard enough to welcome new colleagues, especially from minorities, into their institutions.
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Quality (and Qualities) in Qualitative Inquiry? Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 Graham Francis Badley
I address some of the issues connected with the elusive concept of quality, especially in the process of qualitative inquiry. I do so by contrasting the relatively simple term “qualities” (or characteristics) with the more contentious idea of quality. I begin by considering aspects of psychogeography (assuming it to be one form of qualitative inquiry) and then by concentrating on the concept of quality
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Sand in Sculpture: Creatively Rewilding Ecologies of Health Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-09 David Carless, Kitrina Douglas, Jamie Barnes, Elyse Pineau
Through this creative-relational inquiry, we pursue a radically new way of conceptualizing, researching, communicating, and practicing health and health care in contemporary times. We write to reimagine what an alternative paradigm that is at once humane, democratic, accessible, inclusive, generative, and resolutely open to diversity in its many forms might look and feel like. We begin by presenting
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Capacious Methodologies for an Unravelling World: Three Research Ecologies Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-08 Susan Germein, Prue Adams, Jen Dollin
In this article, we take Dan Harris’ conceptualization of creative ecologies as a provocation to think individually and collectively across three very different research ecologies and the methodologies we use to navigate them. The three research ecologies originate with slippery eels and multispecies ethnography around the Hawkesbury River (New South Wales); affective filmmaking and experience of gender
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The Crealectic Method: From Creativity to Compossibility Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Luis de Miranda
Can we fruitfully apply creative ecology practices in the world of industrial production? Enter the crealectic method for innovation and self-innovation, aiming at fostering creative long-term thinking and acting. The crealectic method proposes five steps: Step 1—Resetting (doing tabula rasa); Step 2—Crealing (reconnecting with the “Creal”); Step 3—Profusing (letting ideas pour out without censorship);
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Hard Rain Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Norman K. Denzin, Tami Spry
Patti Smith’ performance of Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Day Rain’s a-Gonna Fall” at the 2016 Nobel Prize ceremony illustrates the complex relationship between bodies, selves, emotion, biographies, voices, performances, and written texts.1
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The Historical Methodological Foundation of Phenomenography Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Lennart Svensson
Phenomenography is a research tradition originating from research on students’ studying and learning. The research methods of phenomenography have been discussed and criticized by many authors. There is a need for a presentation of the historical methodological foundation of phenomenography. The phenomenographic research methods are best understood as placed within the general research methodology
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A Novel Methodology for Engaging Complex Therapeutic Landscapes and Health Care Performances: “Theatricality” Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Sarah Croke, Dawn Freshwater
Complex health care interventions often consist of specific and non-specific effects and can present a methodological and intellectual challenge to researchers. This is especially the case in Complementary and Integrative Medicines (CIM), where research may inadequately capture the holistic nature of therapies, affecting the quality of outcomes and evidence reported. This article introduces a novel
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Embodied Reflexivity Through the Arts: An Introduction Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Ellyn Lyle, Jee Yeon Ryu, Celeste Nazeli Snowber
Emerging from a global health crisis that shone the light on the effects of alienation, isolation, and physical and spiritual vulnerability, we wondered what we might offer to re/center humanness and remind us of individual and collective possibilities to create positive change. With this call in our hearts and bodies, our special issue began to take shape. We are three scholars at different stages
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Norman Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Patrick Lewis
A contemplation on the passing of Norman Denzin.
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Haecceity Altercation: Thisness as Pedagogy Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 David A. G. Clarke
I write into the haecceity of recent events in and around my teaching in environmental education to explore the concept of thisness as pedagogy.
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The Logic of Posthuman Inquiry: Affirmative Politics, Validity, and Futurities Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-05-03 Scott L. Pratt, Jerry Lee Rosiek
Empirical research informed by posthumanist philosophy is proliferating in the social sciences. This research takes many forms and is willfully pluralistic and creative in the analytic approaches i...
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The And Article: Collage as Research Method Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Victoria de Rijke
In 1994, Denzin and Lincoln suggested an immediate future for qualitative research, very akin to collage. This article begins by examining a seminal early collage work by Kurt Schwitters and ends w...
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Methodology in Motion: Reflections on Using Appnography for the Study of Dating Apps Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Corey W. Johnson, Luc S. Cousineau, Eric Filice, Diana C. Parry
This article reflects upon and provides updates to appnography as a methodology for the study of dating digital app culture. Based on empirical fieldwork and in-depth nterviews with members of the ...
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Rewriting Social Science: The Literary Turn in Qualitative Research Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-24 Martyn Hammersley
In the past few decades, there have been efforts to transform qualitative inquiry, drawing on resources from both imaginative literature and art. There have long been tensions within social science...
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Image Technologies and Visual Methodologies: Reflections, Experimentations, and Future Redirections Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-22 Vivek Vellanki
More images have been made and circulated in the last decade than in all of the 20th century. This is a startling yet obvious fact that illustrates the central role that images have come to play in...
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The Affordances of Videoconferencing Technology for Doing Interviews With Children Online: Methodological Explorations Based on a Critical Ethnography Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-13 Pengfei Zhao, Peiwei Li
In this article, we engage with the concept and theories of “affordance” in the adoption of digital tools to perform qualitative inquiry. We first raise the question of what is afforded when we use...
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Beyond Good Intentions in Special Education Policy: Engaging With Critical Disability Intersectional Research Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Adai A. Tefera, Gustavo E. Fischman
This article describes critical disability intersectional qualitative approaches aimed to not just analyze but also contribute and transform special education policy research. We specifically exami...
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Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities: Implications for Qualitative Inquiry Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Pengfei Zhao, Jessica Nina Lester, Trena Paulus
In this article, we think with the ongoing conversations on “embracing digital worlds” through juxtaposing the methodological practices enabled by “digital worlds” with the writings of science fict...
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Good, Bad, and Hopefully Not the God Trick: Technological Systems in Qualitative Inquiry Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Susan Naomi Nordstrom
This article is a tangle of threads made possible by theoretical and practical snags in my work with qualitative inquiry technology. One snag pulls at the term “technology” and its etymology to thi...
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Enabling Crip Time With Digital Tools in Qualitative Inquiry Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Darcy E. Furlong
Grounded in the intersectional principles of disability justice, this article attends to the integration of digital tools in qualitative inquiry. With a focus on the unique temporal landscapes of D...
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Relational Ethics of Care in Pandemic Research: Vulnerabilities, Intimacies, and Becoming Together-Apart Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-04-04 Allison Jeffrey, Holly Thorpe
In this article, we draw upon the ethico-onto-epistemology of feminist new materialisms to reflect on our experiences as feminists doing research on women’s embodied experiences of sport, fitness, ...
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Potential and Pitfalls: Settler Scholar Engagement in Indigenous Research Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Sarah Panofsky, Lisa Hartwick, Marla J. Buchanan
This article explores the potential and pitfalls of approaching Indigenous research as settler scholars in an attempt to redress the intergenerational damage of colonization on Indigenous culture a...
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An Empiricist Manifesto Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Martyn Hammersley
A call to empiricists to rise up and reclaim reality.
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Making the Just: Critical Inquiry for Different Publics Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Aaron M. Kuntz
I argue that inquiry, ethics, and justice extend a critical and dynamic relation, the force of which might charge an affirmative process of making a difference; productive challenges to normative c...
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Ode to Museum Indians: In Honor of Ishi,1 James Luna,2 and the Dakota Pipeline Resistance Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Norman K. Denzin
A two-act play/performance text inspired by James Luna’s performance of “Ishi: The Archive Performance”: Boston, July 2014, text courtesy of Elena Creef; see also Johns (2014).3 Contrary to Theodor...
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Policy Justice Through Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Issue of School Readiness Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Christopher P. Brown
Globally, policymakers, researchers, and educational advocates continue to promote normative neoliberal policies that frame the issue of school readiness through financial terms. Such an interpreta...
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Conducting Case Study Research to Address the Continued Crises: A Process of Learning to Employ Decolonial Perspectives to Produce a Flourishing Academic Lifeworld Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Christopher P. Brown
In this article, I rethink the process of training emerging scholars to engage in the act(s) of conducting case study methodology using decolonial orientations within the critical paradigm. Doing s...
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Embodying Affective Intra-Actions Online: Enacting Posthuman Methods in Virtual Spaces Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Shannon A. B. Perry
This article explores how the posthuman concepts of affect, intra-action, and diffraction helped me reimagine collaborative inquiry, a traditionally place-based action research method that emphasiz...
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Policymaking Pragmatics: What’s a Qualitative Researcher—Especially a Critical Qualitative Researcher—to Do? Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Robert Donmoyer
Policymakers tend to be suspicious of qualitative research. Distrust of qualitative work is especially acute when a researcher openly embraces critical perspectives and is oriented toward critiquin...
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The Ethics of Naming in Forced Displacement Research: Critical Work and Policy Labels Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-25 Karamjeet K. Dhillon, Jasmine B. Ulmer
With a pedagogical aim, we offer an overview of some, though certainly not all, of the potential initial framing considerations in forced displacement research. We then engage with several of the k...
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Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 César A. Cisneros-Puebla
Nowadays, multivocality has been discussed as if it were a criterion for evaluating the quality of qualitative research, as well as if it were the practice, style, or format of narrative research i...
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Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Critical Public Policy Knowledge and Change Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Gaile S. Cannella, Christopher P. Brown, Yvonna S. Lincoln
The broad goal of this special issue of Qualitative Inquiry is to demonstrate how critical qualitative inquiry (CQI) can facilitate the performance of justice-oriented public policy by conceptualiz...
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Lifting the Veil: Utilizing Critical Qualitative Inquiry to Demystify the Public Policymaking Process Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Sosanya M. Jones
Public policymaking processes in the United States have often been characterized as veiled and lacking transparency. This article explores how critical qualitative inquiry can be used to examine th...
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Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Examining the Influence of Changing Voices and Bodies on Legislative Spaces Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Magdalena Martínez
Gender, race, and ethnic demographics have shifted and emergent policymakers are entering state legislatures. My work seeks to extend the role of critical qualitative research by examining emergent...
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Heroic Coding: A New Method for Apocalyptic Scenarios Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Diego Palacios-Díaz, Herman Moreno-Londoño
This article aims to describe a new coding and data analysis method for qualitative researchers, especially in education and health inquiry. We label this method Heroic Coding, a proposal for under...
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Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s: Exploring Methodological Consequences of Digital Research Workflows Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-21 Jessica Nina Lester, Trena Paulus
This article offers an overview of a special issue that focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the digital tools and spaces that we use and the methodologies and methods that we take up in ...
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Autoethnographers as Freedom-Writers? Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Graham Francis Badley
In this reaction to the attack on Sir Salman Rushdie in August 2022 I suggest that he and several other writers represent powerful role-models for autoethnographers who also aspire to be freedom-wr...
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An Introduction to Responding Autoethnography Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-03-11 Oskar Szwabowski
In this article, I introduce the concept of responding autoethnography. The immediate inspiration for this concept was Ellis’s text on the amassing of many autoethnographic stories to generate coll...
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Breach: A Trans*textual Essay Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-02-15 jt Richardson
The author engages the essay form and body in this creative nonfiction essay as trans*textual. A trans*textual essay, as methodological and literary, attends to textual movement and a textual body ...
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Interrogating (Proximity to) Whiteness: Asian(American) Women in Autoethnographic Sister Circles Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-02-11 Tairan Qiu, Jayna Resman, Jia Zheng
Against the backdrop of historical and present-day anti-Asian racism, we remember, retell, and reflect on the formative experiences in the development of our critical perspectives on our racializat...
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Im/Probabilities of Post/Authorship and Academic Writing Otherwise in Postfoundational Inquiry Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Carol A. Taylor, Angelo Benozzo
This article explores questions of im/probability of/as post/authorship in postfoundational inquiry. Inspired by Deleuzian philosophy, the article instantiates post/authorship and academic writing ...
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Longing for Home or Promising of One: A Found Poem Exploration of Young Female Migrant’s Experiences of Displacement—Voices From Sweden Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Mostafa Hosseini
Poetry can fulfill different purposes—it can be therapeutic, a testimony, or a rebellious expression of injustice. This article presents a thematic found poem exploration, of six Afghan female migr...
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The Day After: An Ethnodrama About Teachers’ Decision-Making Amid Silencing School Policies Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-02-02 Alyssa Hadley Dunn
This ethnodrama, based on hundreds of interviews with educators around the United States, takes readers into a school on the day after a national tragedy. Grounded in the theory of Days After Pedag...
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On How I Got Through COVID-19 Lockdown: An Autoethnographic Approach to Resilience in Disability Qualitative Inquiry (IF 1.789) Pub Date : 2023-01-13 Karen A. E. Hall, Marija Djurdjevic, Blanca Deusdad
I explore how I—a person born with a physical disability living alone in a foreign country—was able to cope with COVID-19 lockdown. I used the autoethnographic method (Chang, 2016) to scrutinize so...