In the present political climate, qualitative researchers can bring rigorous research findings to public communities outside of the academy, directly affect public policies, social justice, education and diversity issues. The contributors of this book form a call to arms for the increasing relevance of qualitative research in the public sphere.

Introduction Norman K. Denzin and Michael D. GiardinaSection I: Private Lives, Public MattersChapter 1. Fracking the faculty: The privatization of public knowledge, the erosion of faculty worklife quality, the diminution of the liberal arts Yvonna S. LincolnChapter 2. Academic de-institutionalization and radical imagination vs. audit culture Marc SpoonerChapter 3. Into the woods: Scholarly publishing for a post-tenure world Mitch AllenChapter 4. The BMJ debate and what it tells us about who says what, when and where, about our qualitative inquiry Julianne CheekChapter 5. Indigenous qualitative research in the neoliberal public sphere Patrick LewisChapter 6. Cultivating critical reflexivity in the public sphere Ping-Chun HsiungChapter 7. Individual needs, cultural barriers, public discourses: Taking qualitative inquiry into the public sphere Silke Migala and Uwe FlickInterludeChapter 8. On Being Awake after the 2016 U.S. Presidential election Ronald J. PeliasSection II: The Critical Imagination and Pedagogies of ChangeChapter 9. Research for revolutionaries by #JimScheurich James Joseph ScheurichChapter 10. Method ol o gie s …that encounter (slowness and) irregular rhythm Mirka Koro-Ljungberg and Timothy WellsChapter 11. Collaborative autoethnography: An ethical approach to inquiry that makes a difference Judith C. LapadatChapter 12. Writing to it: Creating engagement with writing practice in and with the not yet known in today’s academy Jonathan Wyatt and Ken GaleChapter 13. The future of critical arts-based research: Creating political spaces for resistance politics Susan FinleyChapter 14. Musical chairs: Method, style, tradition James SalvoCoda Pedagogy, civil rights, and the project of insurrectional democracy Henry Giroux

The quality of scholarship introduced at the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry is consistently innovative, provocative, and scholarly. This collection of papers represents some of the finest work of international scholars who attended the 13th annual Congress and proposed how to use qualitative inquiry and the different systems of thought that differently shape it to resist the alarming politics of the global right. At once affirmative and urgent, this book serves as inspiration and a call to political action.Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre, Professor of Critical Studies, Educational Theory & Practice Department, University of GeorgiaThe International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) continues to be a major intervention into the ethics and politics of social research. Responding to a felt need for a high quality forum to debate issues of theory, method and social justice, this latest volume of papers from the Congress reflects on the development of the ‘research-enterprise nexus’ in universities and our own complicity in the development of a research market place. It calls for a focus on the competition of ideas rather than products, and for wider engagement with communities and constituencies which should benefit from the processes and findings of qualitative research.Harry Torrance, Professor of Education, Education and Social Research Institute, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK