In this critical reader, the best writing of two dozen key figures in qualitative research is gathered together to help students to identify emerging themes in the field and the latest thinking of the leaders in qualitative inquiry. These groundbreaking articles are pulled from a decade of social justice-focused plenary volumes emanating from the annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. These are the ideas that have helped shape the landscape of the field over the past decade. This work-brings together the latest work of 25 leading figures in qualitative research from 4 continents;-addresses the central themes of the field over the past decade in theory, methodology, politics, and interventions;-includes contextualizing essays by the volume editors, who direct the Congress.

1: Introduction; I: Philosophy of Inquiry; 2: Chronotopes of Human Science Inquiry; 3: Neutral Science and the Ethics of Resistance; 4: Evidence; 5: Refusing Human Being in Humanist Qualitative Inquiry; II: Politics of Evidence/Politics of Research; 6: The Politics of Evidence; 7: Building Confidence in Qualitative Research; 8: In the Name of Human Rights; 9: Education Research in the Public Interest 1; 10: I Read the News Today, Oh Boy ...; 11: Public Intellectuals Against the Neoliberal University; III: Methodological Imperatives; 12: Interviewing and the Production of the Conversational Self; 13: Remix Cultures, Remix Methods; 14: Dangerous Ethnography; 15: Performative Writing; 16: Learning to Remember the Things We've Learned to Forget; 17: The Exquisite Corpse of Art-Based Research; 18: The Death of a Cow; IV: Indigenous & Decolonizing Interventions; 19: Choosing the Margins; 20: Thinking Through Theory; 21: Indigenous Researchers and Epistemic Violence; 22: Freeing Ourselves; Coda; 23: Are You Serious?; Epilogue; 24: A Conversation about the Past, Present, and Future of Qualitative Inquiry