Collaborative Futures in Qualitative Inquiry

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, Sociology, and the Humanities at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the Founder of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University. He is the Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

• Introduction; Section I: Political Futures 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic is Exposing the Plague of Neoliberalism 2. Becoming Weary/Wary: Confecting Anew in a Fascist World; Section II: Performative Futures 3. Betweeners: Our Common Humanity in Repressive Times 4. The Emotional Geographies of Academic Writing: Writing as a Method of Survival 5. It is a Lonely Voice Between the Social Rebellion and the Pandemic 6. Whimsy, Ethnographic Writing, and the Everyday: Possibilities, Politics, Poetics; Section III: Global Futures 7. Still Stumbling toward Indigenization, Reconciliation, and Decolonization: We Acknowledge the land, Now What? 8. Slow-Motion Activism: Performing Impossible Futures 9. Big Data, Thick Data, Digital Transformation, and the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Why Qualitative Inquiry is More Relevant than Ever Coda. Sublime Resistance: Imagining Peace, Freedom, Health, Happiness, Community