Table Of ContentQUALITATIVE INQUIRY
AND GLOBAL CRISES
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 volumes are edited
by Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina and are available from Left Coast
Press, Inc.
Qualitative Inquiry and Global Crises
2011, based on the 2010 Congress
ISBN 978-1-61132-021-3 hardcover 978-1-61132-022-0
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 International
Institute of Qualitative Inquiry. The 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 aca-
demically sound and partisan, 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 criti-
cal qualitative research methodologies and practices for understanding and advocacy
in policy arenas as well as clarity of writing and willingness 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
ISSN 1940-8447
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QUALITATIVE INQUIRY
AND GLOBAL CRISES
Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
Editors
Walnut Creek, California
LEFT COAST PRESS, INC.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Qualitative inquiry and global crises / Norman K. Denzin, Michael D.
Giardina, editors.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-61132-021-3 (hardback)—ISBN 978-1-61132-022-0 (paperback)
1. Social sciences—Research—Methodology. 2. Qualitative research—
Methodology. I. Denzin, Norman K. II. Giardina, Michael D., 1976-
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CONTENTS
Introduction 9
Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina
Part I: Theory 29
1. Teaching Qualitative Research Responsively 31
Judith Preissle and Kathleen deMarrais
2. Refusing Human Being in Humanist Qualitative Research 40
Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre
3. Interviewing and the Production of the Conversational Self 56
Svend Brinkmann
Part II: Method 77
4. Qualitative Research, Technology, and Global Change 79
Judith Davidson and Silvana di Gregorio
5. Using Situational Analysis for Critical Qualitative 97
Research Purposes
Michelle Salazar Perez and Gaile S. Cannella
6. Mixed Methods, Mixed Causes? 118
Kenneth R. Howe
7. Mixing Methods, Triangulation, and Integrated Research: 132
Challenges for Qualitative Research in a World of Crisis
Uwe Flick
Part III: Performance 153
8. The Exquisite Corpse of Arts-Based Research 155
Charles R. Garoian
9. Cinderella Story: An Arts-Based and Narrative 178
Research Project
James Haywood Rolling, Jr.
10. Intimacy, Empathy, Activism: A Performative 199
Engagement with Children’s Wartime Art
Elyse Pineau
11. Fathers, Sons, and Protest at the School of the Americas: 218
Countering Hegemonic Narratives of Masculine Might
and Militarism
Tami Spry
12. Learning to Remember the Things We’ve Learned to 226
Forget: Endarkened Feminisms and the
Sacred Nature of Research
Cynthia Dillard
13. Globalizing the Rural: The Use of Qualitative Research 244
for New Rural Problems in the Age of Globalism
Isamu Ito
Index 259
About the Authors 265
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 assistance
in gathering the index.
Many of the chapters contained in this book were pre-
sented as plenary or keynote addresses at the Sixth International
Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, held at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign, in May 2010. We thank the Institute of
Communications Research, the College of Media, and the
International Institute for Qualitative Inquiry for continued sup-
port 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, Dong
Hong, Melba Vélez, Koeli Goel, Li Xiong, Yiye Liu, Robin
Price, and James Salvo (the glue who continues to hold the whole
thing together). For information on future congresses, please visit
http://www.icqi.org.
Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
December 2010
Introduction
Qualitative Inquiry and
Global Crises1
Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. Giardina
[W]e seemingly tolerate a rising level of violence that ignores our
common humanity and our claims to civilization alike. We calmly
accept newspaper reports of civilian slaughter in far off lands. We glorify
killing on movie and television screens and call it entertainment. We
make it easy for men of all shades of sanity to acquire weapons and
ammunition they desire. Too often we honor swagger and bluster and
the wielder of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build
their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
— Robert F. Kennedy, 1968
Democracy, as well as social justice, is not a spectator sport. We cannot
allow ourselves to simply sit on our couches and give passionate color
commentary about what is happening in the world and how we
must change it. When we do this we are playing a painful part in the
continuance of the challenges we complain of. If we want the world to
change it must start with us as individuals and our own actions. We
can’t do the same thing we did last year and expect anything in the
world around us to get better this year. We have to be a part of any
transformation we seek in the world.
— Cory Booker, 2011
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