Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy

266 Pages·2012·1.94 MB·English

by  Norman K Denzin

Qualitative Inquiry
and the Politics
of Advocacy
INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry has been hosted each May
since 2005 by the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry at the University of
Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This volume, as well as five preceding volumes, are
products of plenary sessions from these international congresses. All of these vol-
umes are edited by Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina and are available
from Left Coast Press, Inc.
Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy
2012, based on the 2011 Congress
ISBN 978-1-61132-162-3 hardcover 978-1-61132-163-0 paperback
Qualitative Inquiry and Global Crises
2011, based on the 2010 Congress
ISBN 978-1-61132-021-3 hardcover 978-1-61132-022-0 paperback
Qualitative Inquiry and Human Rights
2010, based on the 2009 Congress
ISBN 978-1-59874-537-5 hardcover, 978-1-59874-538-2 paperback
Qualitative Inquiry and Social Justice
2009, based on the 2008 Congress
ISBN 978-1-59874-422-4 hardcover, 978-1-59874-423-1 paperback
Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence
2008, based on the 2007 Congress
ISBN 978-1-59874-321-0 hardcover, 978-1-59874-322-7 paperback
Ethical Futures in Qualitative Research
2007, based on the 2006 Congress
ISBN 978-1-59874-140-7 hardcover, 978-1-59874-141-4 paperback
Qualitative Inquiry and the Conservative Challenge
2006, based on the 2005 Congress
ISBN 978-1-59874-045-5 hardcover, 978-1-59874-046-2 paperback
Another product of the Congress is the quarterly refereed journal of the Institute.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH is a peer-
reviewed journal that encourages the use of critical, experimental, and traditional
forms of qualitative inquiry in the interests of social justice. We seek works that are
both academically sound and partisan and works that offer knowledge-based radical
critiques of social settings and institutions while promoting human dignity, human
rights, and just societies around the globe. Submissions to the journal are judged
by the effective use of critical qualitative research methodologies and practices for
understanding and advocacy in policy arenas, as well as clarity of writing and will-
ingness to experiment with new and traditional forms of presentation. Linked to
the annual Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, much of the journal’s content will be
drawn from presentations and themes developed from these international meetings.
The journal is also published by Left Coast Press, Inc.
INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Editor: Norman K. Denzin
Quarterly in May, August, November, February
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Qualitative Inquiry
and the Politics
of Advocacy
Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
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Qualitative inquiry and the politics of advocacy / Norman K. Denzin,
Michael D. Giardina, editors.
p. cm. — (International congress of qualitative inquiry ; v. 7)
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-61132-162-3 (hardback : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61132-
163-0 (pbk. : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-1-61132-164-7 (institutional ebook) —
ISBN 978-1-61132-598-0 (consumer ebook)
1. Qualitative research. 2. Evidence. I. Denzin, Norman K., 1941- II.
Giardina, Michael D., 1976-
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Contents
Introduction 9
Norman K. Denzin & Michael D. Giardina
Section I: Theory 39
1. Energizing and constraining advocacy 41
Robert Stake & Luisa Maria-Rosu,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
2. Back to the educational future, again: 59
A “double dip” into the Long Recession
Ian Stronach & John Clarke, Liverpool John Moores
University, UK
3. “Answers,” assemblages, and qualitative research 79
Mirka Koro-Ljungberg & Tim Barko,
University of Florida
4. Turning the next wide 21st-century corner: 101
Holistic restorative justice as science in qualitative inquiry
John H. Stanfield II, Indiana University-Bloomington
Section II: Method 121
5. Mixing or adding methods? An exploration and critique 123
Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University
6. Pulling together: Postmodernism and multiple 145
method research
Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey, UK
7. Vulnerability and the politics of advocacy: 163
Challenges for qualitative inquiry using multiple methods
Uwe Flick, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences,
Germany
Section III: Politics 183
8. Writing against Othering 185
Michal Krumer-Nevo, Ben-Gurion University
of the Negev
9. Ecoaesthetics: Critical arts-based research and 205
environmental advocacy
Susan Finley, Washington State
University-Vancouver
10. The production of girl life 221
Jean Halley, Wagner College
11. “I read the news today, oh boy …”: The war on 237
public workers
H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr., Arizona State University
Coda: Why faculty should join occupy movement protestors 245
on college campuses
Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada
Index 253
About the authors 259
Acknowledgments
We thank our publisher of all publishers, Mitch Allen, for his
continued support and guidance throughout the years. We also
thank Carole Bernard for expert copyediting, Hannah Jennings
for superb production design, and Katie Flanagan for assis-
tance in gathering the index. Many of the chapters contained in
this book were presented as plenary or keynote addresses at the
Seventh International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, in May 2011. We
thank the Institute of Communications Research, the College of
Media, and the International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry for
continued support of the congress as well as those campus units
that contributed time, funds, and/or volunteers to the effort.
The congress, and by extension this book, would not have
materialized without the tireless efforts of Katia Curbelo, Ted
Faust, Bryce Henson, Melba Vélez, Li Xiong, Yiye Liu, Robin
Price, Mary Blair, and James Salvo (the glue who continues to
hold the whole thing together). For information on future con-
gresses, please visit http://www.icqi.org.
Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
December 2011

Introduction
Qualitative Inquiry and the
Politics of Advocacy
Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina
With the advance of corporate and financial power, violence
now comes in the form of corrupt legislation and a political
ideology that strips government of its universal social
protections; removes government oversight; builds on fear;
decimates the power of unions; defunds public institutions;
and expands the culture of cruelty, fraud and avarice through
policies that perpetuate a crushing inequality.
— Henry A. Giroux (2011, para. 7)
In a world already moving in certain directions, where
wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways,
neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a
world of clashing interests—war against peace, nationalism
against internationalism, equality against greed, and
democracy against elitism—and it seems to me both
impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.
— Howard Zinn (1990, p. 7)
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