Making Research Public in Troubled Times

These are certainly troubled times in which neoliberal capitalist patriarchy and the tyranny of racism and domination are continually reinscribed on the bodies and lives of so many. However, critical researchers understand the necessity for, as well as the difficulty of, using research to facilitate public transformations that lead to increased justice and equity. The authors contributing to Making Research Public in Troubled Times recognize the importance of diverse pedagogies, activism, and ethical choices regarding an environment that supports critical research in such oppressive times. 


Diverse pedagogies that can facilitate the education of critical public researchers across disciplines are illustrated in the first set of chapters addressing questions like: What is important in teaching critical qualitative inquiry? How do students, materials, histories, and the public influence this teaching? What have we learned over years of attempting to teach critical qualitative research methods? The authors in the second section are activist local scholars sharing their projects and explaining what this work means for critical qualitative inquiry. This work includes methods used to incorporate critical qualitative inquiry into community activism. Finally, chapters in the last section focus on future steps and most important actions for the ways critical qualitative inquiry can be conceptualized to address concerns in these troubled times.


Series Editor Foreword

Acknowledgements

Introductory Chapter—M. Francyne Huckaby


Section I: (How To) Educating(E) Critical Public Researchers: Pedagogies Across Disciplines

1) Thinking, Willing and Judging in (Post)Qualitative Research: A Series of Re-Settings—Mirka Koro-Ljungberg

2) Unruly Considerations for a Critical Qualitative Classroom: Teaching Well—Jasmine B. Ulmer

3) Learning Is a Two Way Street: Crossing Socio-Cultural Boundaries through Critical Qualitative Research—Joy Pierce and Luz Zareth Moreno


Section II: Sharing Local Critical Activism: What it Means for How We Conduct Scholarship

4) Research as Solutionless Participation—Franklin Vernon

5) Their Own Ways of Knowing: Art-Based Participatory Action Research with Refugee Women from Burma—Hillary Rubesin and Madison Hayes

6) Cyborg Scholarship: Films for the People—M. Francyne Huckaby


Section III: Strategic Next Steps and Obligations for Critical Qualitative Scholars

7) The Play of Seduction and Desire in the Making of a President—Bronwyn Davies

8) Nurturing Our Critical Relations: Research to Facilitate Justice through Post-Anthropocentric Transformation—Gaile S. Cannella 


Afterword: Pedagogies of Hope for Dark Days: Talking Points—Norman K. Denzin