Voice in Qualitative Inquiry: Challenging Conventional, Interpretive, and Critical Conceptions in Qualitative Research

✍ Scribed by Alecia Y Jackson (editor), Lisa A Mazzei (editor)

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 261
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, "What does it mean to work the limits of voice?" from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice. The thought-provoking book will shift qualitative inquiry away from uproblematically engaging in practices and interpretations that limit what "counts" as voice and therefore data. The loss and betrayal of comfort and authority when qualitative researchers work the limits of voice will lead to new disruptions and irruptions in making meaning from data and, in turn, will add inventive and critical dialogue to the conversation about voice in qualitative inquiry. This compelling collection will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction: The limit of voice • Lisa A. Mazzei and Alecia Youngblood Jackson
Part I: Straining notions of voice
1 Against empathy, voice and authenticity • Patti Lather
2 Indigenous voice, community, and epistemic violence: the ethnographer’s ‘interests’ and what ‘interests’ the ethnographer • Michael Marker
3 An impossibly full voice • Lisa A. Mazzei
4 Voicing objections • Erica McWilliam, Karen Dooley, Felicity McArdle and Jennifer Pei-Ling Tan
5 ‘Soft ears’ and hard topics: race, disciplinarity, and voice in higher education • Roland Mitchell
6 Broken voices, dirty words: on the productive insufficiency of voice • Maggie MacLure
Part II: Transgressive voices: Productive practices
7 The problem of speaking for others • Linda Martín Alcoff
8 Forays into the mist: violences, voices, vignettes • Lubna Nazir Chaudhry
9 ‘What am I doing when I speak of this present?’: voice, power, and desire in truth-telling • Alecia Youngblood Jackson
10 Researching and representing teacher voice(s): a reader response approach • Becky M. Atkinson and Jerry Rosiek
11 Life in Kings Cross: a play of voices • Bronwyn Davies
Afterword: Decentering voice in qualitative inquiry • Elizabeth Adams St.Pierre
Author index
Subject index