Norman K Denzin - Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy

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 volumes 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 willingness to experiment with new and traditional forms of presentation. Linked to the annual Congress for Qualitative Inquiry, much of the journals 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

Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Advocacy

Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
Editors

First published 2012 by Left Coast Press, Inc.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

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 978-1-61132163-0 (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

H62.Q347 2012

001.42dc23

2012007027

ISBN 978-1-61132-163-0 paperback

ISBN 978-1-61132-162-3 hardback

Contents

Norman K. Denzin & Michael D. Giardina

Robert Stake & Luisa Maria-Rosu, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Ian Stronach & John Clarke, Liverpool John Moores University, UK

Mirka Koro-Ljungberg & Tim Barko, University of Florida

John H. Stanfield II, Indiana University-Bloomington

Kathy Charmaz, Sonoma State University

Nigel Fielding, University of Surrey, UK

Uwe Flick, Alice Salomon University of Applied Sciences, Germany

Michal Krumer-Nevo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Susan Finley, Washington State University-Vancouver

Jean Halley, Wagner College

H. L. (Bud) Goodall, Jr., Arizona State University

Henry A. Giroux, McMaster University, Canada

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 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 Vlez, 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 congresses, please visit http://www.icqi.org.

Norman K. Denzin
Michael D. Giardina
December 2011

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 interestswar against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitismand it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts