Employing Critical Qualitative Inquiry to Mount Non-Violent Resistance

Gaile S. Cannella is an independent scholar who has served as a tenured Full Professor at Texas A&M University, College Station and at Arizona State University, Tempe, as well as the Velma Schmidt Endowed Chair of Education at the University of North Texas. Her work has appeared in a range of journals and volumes, including Qualitative Inquiry, Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies, and International Review of Qualitative Research. Her most recent books are: Critical Qualitative Research Reader (2012) with Shirley Steinberg; Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Care and Education (2014, 2nd edition to appear in 2018) with Marianne Bloch and Beth Swadener; Critical Qualitative Inquiry: Foundations and Futures (2015) with Michelle Pérez and Penny Pasque; and Critical Examinations of Quality in Childhood Education and Care (2016) with Michelle Pérez and I-Fang Lee. She is currently working on research projects that include: early years critical perspectives in education, and critical qualitative inquiry as public activisms and unthought imaginary. Dr. Cannella received the 2017 Reconceptualizing Early Childhood Education and Care Bloch Career Award.

• 1.  Research andStruggles in the Contemporary Political World—Gaile S. Cannella and Yvonna S.Lincoln2.  Difficult Love: Preparations of a Warrior—M. Francyne Huckaby3.  "Unbought and Unbossed": On BeingBlack, Woman, and Transgressive in the Fight for Justice—Valerie Kinloch4.  Sanity on the Chopping Block, or Howto Save Yourself in an Insane World—Yvonna S. Lincoln5.  Shufflingthe Deck: The "Woman Card," Misogyny, and Material-Discursive Complexitiesof "Identities" —Janet L. Miller6.  ResistingPatriarchy: Explorations Using a Collaborative Protest Play—GaileS. Cannella7.  Resources for Becomingswith Activism,Research, and Contemporary Politics—Gaile S. Cannella and Yvonna S. Lincoln