Pub Date : 2021-10-12DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049529
D. Carless
How might we personally and collectively contain the burnout and emotional depletion that has arisen as a consequence of COVID-19? For some, the pandemic has been a further stressor on top of pre-existing trauma. Under these circumstances, how can we continue our work of intervening into the challenges and demands that face our communities? Here, I turn to a song – called It’s Alright – written and sung not only as a response, but also as a survival strategy. I try to let its sentiments and sensations wash over me to calm my nervous system. I sing it as a way to self-soothe, to stabilise. I sing it with and for you, on the chance it might be of service.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-10DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049523
K. Borchard
In 2017 the author published a poem about a mass shooting in Orlando where forty-nine people died. Two shootings in March 2021 in Atlanta and Boulder, where eighteen people total were killed, have since garnered national news media attention. But mass shootings are more common than nationally reported. A Wikipedia page, titled “List of Mass Shootings in the United States 2021,” states that there were over one-hundred shootings involving four or more victims in the first three months of this year. The author here uses a compare and contrast list, recent headlines and quotes from news sources, and speculative scenarios to consider again this highly familiar and durable trope in American news.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-09DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049526
K. Douglas
This reflections explores some of the highs and lows of songs sung on the terraces at British football clubs. In particular I draw on some of my childhood experience to explore how songs can breathe hope and inclusion.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-08DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049508
Vonzell Agosto, Lasonja Roberts, María Migueliz Valcarlos, Tara Nkrumah, Tanetha Grosland, Andrew Bratspis, Nathalie Q. Warren, Edwin W. Reynolds
This article brings forth the difficulties and possibilities of enacting the role of “Joker” from Boal’s (1979) Joker System—formerly called the poetics of the oppressed. The authors acknowledge jokering as an apprehensive performance of brokering, of bodies that matter and are matter, that can provoke anti-oppressive actions and reinscribe oppressions. As such, four backdrops are engaged to further the methodological, theoretical, and curricular/pedagogical force of jokering as a performance that unsettles the status quo: Latina/Chicana feminist theories used in mentoring, performance-based action research with middle-school students, professional leadership development for schools, and socio-technological analysis with theatre in online/distance education. Each example from our praxis illustrates how the roles of emerging researcher, mentor-researcher, and researcher-practitioner are performed and troubled (jokered) from different disciplinary and theoretical perspectives to foster social justice praxis and outcomes.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-06DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049515
Gabriel Huddleston
This paper posits the concept of cultivating whiteness as not only a characteristic of neoliberal society, but also as a potential problem in qualitative research. Building off of the neoliberal conception of the hyper-realized individual, cultivating whiteness is an example of how white supremacy persists in clandestine and pernicious ways by existing as more aesthetically pleasing in comparison to the more egregious forms of racism. It contends that by placing the onus on the individual to fight white supremacy as opposed to collective action, the result is a cultivation of whiteness, allowing it to flourish as opposed to die on the vine. The paper then moves to examine, broadly, the qualitative researcher’s susceptibility to whiteness cultivation and, more specifically, how using popular culture as an apparatus of diffraction lends itself to the same.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-05DOI: 10.1177/19408447211042802
Grace O' Grady
One year after beginning a large-scale research inquiry into how young people construct their identities I became ill and subsequently underwent abdominal surgery which triggered an early menopause. The process which was experienced as creatively bruising called to be written as “Artful Autoethnography” using visual images and poetry to tell a “vulnerable, evocative and therapeutic” story of illness, menopause, and their subject positions in intersecting relations of power. The process which was experienced as disempowering called to be performed as an act of resistance and activism. This performance ethnography is in line with the call for qualitative inquirers to move beyond strict methodological boundaries. In particular, the voice of activism in this performance is in the space between data (human voice and visual art pieces) and theory. To this end, and in resisting stratifying institutional/medical discourse, the performance attempts to create a space for a merger of ethnography and activism in public/private life.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-27DOI: 10.1177/19408447211049511
Leah Salter
In this paper I frame systemic, narrative informed, group work practice as an act of solidarity; and narrative inquiry as an act of resistance and activism. I describe research I have been part of as an intervention into (and a resistance against) discourses of individualised psychopathology that exist within the mental health services (where I have worked for the last decade) and colonising practices that can and do exist in academia. Part of the narrative is my own story of movement from research informed practitioner to practice based researcher which includes an exploration of an evolving relationship with power. I also describe how I have devised a five-step process to inquire into my own group work practices – a process I have called a responsive, temporally framed narrative inquiry. Responsive because it has been designed to be adaptive and attuned to the inevitable movement between research ‘material’ and people involved in any such inquiry. Temporally framed, and with an emphasis on narrative, because it pays attention to past stories (of abuse and oppression), present feelings in relation to those stories and narratives that develop through inquiry that are ‘future forming’ and speak to ‘preferred futures’.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-14DOI: 10.1177/19408447211012658
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Travis M. Marn, Tim Barko, Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower
How can (post-)qualitative inquiry do justice in uncertain times? Post-qualitative inquiry, in its embrace of radical uncertainty, held promise for ethical and political responsibility in an entangled, hardly knowable world. Lately, we (authors) are doubtful of that promise. For over a year, through in-person and Zoom conversations, before and during the global pandemic, punctuated by weekly protests of a resurging Black Lives Matter movement, we reckoned with our hopes, doubts, dreams, and disappointments of justice in qualitative and post-qualitative inquiry. We reconstituted our dialogue in this paper around the topics most pressing to us: coming to justice, being wary of idols and ideology, and deciding what matters in post-qualitative inquiry. We came to the uneasy conclusion that, with no one to blame yet everyone responsible, the veneer of justice is peeling away from post-qualitative inquiry; that post-qualitative inquiry has, largely against its will, become a stable, divisive, and totalizing methodology; and that post-qualitative inquiry’s radical uncertainty has created the enabling conditions of indifference, apathy, and triviality. We urge (post-)qualitative inquirers to keep talking about justice and to balance a desire for post-theory with the responsibility for praxis, action, and decision-making.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-12DOI: 10.1177/19408447211012649
Maureen A. Flint, Whitney Toledo
In this article, we conceptualize a methodology of “good trouble.” Making good trouble, as described by Civil Rights Leader and Congressman John Lewis is doing “something out of the ordinary,” making “a way out of no way.” Troubling is about how we relate as we live and become together in the world. We use the concept of troubling as a theoretical framing that simultaneously draws attention to in(un)justice and seeks new modes of relating. Making good trouble became a practice of critical inquiry that stirred us to question cultural and societal norms that are often assumed to be natural and immutable, as well as our co-implication within them.
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Pub Date : 2021-05-12DOI: 10.1177/19408447211002768
Jimmy Donaghey, F. Magowan
The “emotion curve” is a creative methodology that asks research participants to express in graphic form changes in their emotional responses over time, reflecting on a given time period or on a particular activity or event (in our case, music-based activities). This methodology was developed as part of our research with community music-making NGO Musicians Without Borders at their “Music Bridge” participatory music and movement training program in Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland. This article discusses how the “post-conflict” context of our research, and our engagement with the principles of prefiguration and participatory action research, shaped the development of this innovative methodology, paying particular attention to achieving methodological “fit” (or commensurability) with the practices, objectives, and ethos of our research partners. This creative and “fitting” (or commensurate) methodology has been the basis of a “mutually transformative dialog” with our research partners.
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