Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence

by Denzin,Norman K

• ISBN13: 9781598743210
• ISBN10: 159874321X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What is evidence in qualitative inquiry and how is it evaluated? What is true or false in research is strongly influenced by socially defined criteria and by the politics of academia? In providing an alternative to conservative science, qualitative researchers are often victimized by these politics. The use of qualitative evidence within the policy arena is also subject to social and political factors. Within qualitative inquiry itself, evidence is defined differently in different discourses --law, medicine, history, cultural, or performance studies. The interdisciplinary, international group of contributors to this volume address these questions in an attempt to create evidential criteria for qualitative work. Sponsored by the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry

Table of Contents

The Elephant in the Living Room, OR Advancing the Conversation about the Politics of Evidence	p. 9
Policy Intentions	p. 53
Building Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the Demands of Policy	p. 55
On Promoting Rigor in Educational Research: The Example of the UK's Research Assessment Exercise?	p. 80
Isolating Science from the Humanities: The Third Dogma of Educational Research	p. 97
A Fine Line: Positioning Qualitative Inquiry in the Wake of the Politics of Evidence	p. 119
Theoretical and Methodological Interruptions	p. 135
The Evidentiary Narrative: Notes toward a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective about Evidence	p. 137
The Value of a Realist Understanding of Causality for Qualitative Research	p. 163
(Post)Feminist Methodology: Getting Lost, OR a Scientificity We Can Bear to Learn from	p. 182
Qualitative Researchers' Conceptualizations of the Risks Inherent in Qualitative Interviews	p. 195
Performative Interventions	p. 219
Narrative Poetics and Performative Interventions	p. 221
From Politicized Knowledge to Standardized Knowing: The Trickle-Down Effect in Schools	p. 250
Heartbeats: Exploring the Power of Qualitative Research Expressed as Auto/Ethnographic Performance Texts	p. 270
Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Many Voices	p. 288
Coda: Let's Get Personal: First-Generation Autoethnographers Reflect on Writing Personal Narratives	p. 309
Index	p. 335
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