Short description:

New from award winning editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers the best of the popular SAGE journal, Qualitative Inquiry. These collected works aim to introduce the necessary critical framework that will allow scholars and students scholars to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry. By providing this framework, readers will then be able to use this work as it applies to critical political and moral discourses.

• The book includes examples from across the behavioral and social sciences


• Reader is divided into five sections: Reflexive Ethnography, Autoethnography, Poetics, Performance Narratives, Assessing the Text


• These sections reflect the ways in which contemporary researchers have implemented the narrative turn in their writing


• Contains cutting-edge work by top scholars in the field


• Introduces students and scholars to what's new in the field of qualitative inquiry

Long description:

New from award winning editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln, The Qualitative Inquiry Reader offers the best of the popular SAGE journal, Qualitative Inquiry. These collected works aim to introduce the necessary critical framework that will allow scholars and students scholars to interpret cutting edge work in the field of qualitative inquiry. By providing this framework, readers will then be able to use this work as it applies to critical political and moral discourses.

• The book includes examples from across the behavioral and social sciences
• Reader is divided into five sections: Reflexive Ethnography, Autoethnography, Poetics, Performance Narratives, Assessing the Text
• These sections reflect the ways in which contemporary researchers have implemented the narrative turn in their writing
• Contains cutting-edge work by top scholars in the field
• Introduces students and scholars to what's new in the field of qualitative inquiry

Table of Contents:

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 &&&x0D;
Research - Y. Lincoln
20. Confronting Anthropology's Silencing Praxis: Speaking Of / From a Chicana Consciousness - M. Rodriguez