Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research

by Youngblood Jackson; Alecia

• ISBN13: 9780415442213
• ISBN10: 0415442214
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-10-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, "What does it mean to work the limits of voice?" from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice. The thought-provoking book will shift qualitative inquiry away from uproblematically engaging in practices and interpretations that limit what "counts" as voice and therefore data. The loss and betrayal of comfort and authority when qualitative researchers work the limits of voice will lead to new disruptions and irruptions in making meaning from data and, in turn, will add inventive and critical dialogue to the conversation about voice in qualitative inquiry. Toward this end, the book will specifically address the following objectives: To promote an examination of how voice functions to communicate in qualitative research To expose the excesses and instabilities of voice in qualitative research To present theoretical, methodological, and interpretative implications that result in a problematizing of voice To provide working examples of how qualitative methodologists are engaging the multiple layers of voice and meaning To deconstruct the epistemological limits of voice that circumscribe our view of the world and the ways in which we make meaning as researchers This compelling collection will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of contributors	p. ix
Introduction: The limit of voice	p. 1
Straining notions of voice	p. 15
Against empathy, voice and authenticity	p. 17
Indigenous voice, community, and epistemic violence: the ethnographer's 'interests' and what 'interests' the ethnographer	p. 27
An impossibly full voice	p. 45
Voicing objections	p. 63
'Soft ears' and hard topics: race, disciplinarity, and voice in higher education	p. 77
Broken voices, dirty words: on the productive insufficiency of voice	p. 97
Transgressive voices: Productive practices	p. 115
The problem of speaking for others	p. 117
Forays into the mist: violences, voices, vignettes	p. 137
'What am I doing when I speak of this present?': voice, power, and desire in truth-telling	p. 165
Researching and representing teacher voice(s): a reader response approach	p. 175
Life in Kings Cross: a play of voices	p. 197
Afterword: Decentering voice in qualitative inquiry	p. 221
Author index	p. 237
Subject index	p. 243
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