Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire: Toward a New Paradigm Dialogue - Softcover

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Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communicaitions, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. One of the world’s foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, Denzin is the author or editor of more than two dozen books, including Reading Race; Interpretive Ethnography; The Cinematic Society; The Voyeur’s Gaze; The Alcoholic Self, and Performance Ethnography. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln) of four editions of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Linda Tuhiwai Smith) of Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies, co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of three plenary volumes from prior Congresses of Qualitative Inquiry, co-editor (with Lincoln) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies/Critical Methodologies, and founding editor of International Review of Qualitative Research, and editor of three book series.

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In these 13 essaysawhich originally appeared in a wide variety of sources and are edited and updated hereathe Norman K. Denzin traces how these changes have transformed qualitative practice in recent years. In an era where qualitative inquiry is under fire from conservative governmental and academic bodies, he points the way toward the future, including a renewed dialogue on paradigmatic pluralism.