The Qualitative Inquiry Reader

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he is the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire; Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Alcoholic Self; and a trilogy on the American West. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies?Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry, coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.

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