Once again, editors Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln have put together a volume that represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the foundation of the landmark first and second editions, the third edition is both the bridge and the roadmap to the territory that lies ahead for researchers across the disciplines. The Fourth Edition is a virtually new work. It features new chapter topics, including, among others, auto-ethnography, critical race theory, applied ethnography, queer theory, and testimonies. Several additional chapters are written by new contributors. And, every chapter in the book has been thoroughly revised and updated. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, it is necessary to re-engage the promise of qualitative research as a generative form of inquiry. The Fourth Edition of the Handbook reveals how the discourses of qualitative research can be used to imagine and create a free and democratic society. Ground-breaking, thought-provoking, comprehensive, and featuring the contributions of a virtual "Who's Who" in the human sciences, the Handbook of Qualitative Research, Third Edition is an absolutely essential text for the library of any scholar interested in the art and science of research.

Table of Contents

PREFACE - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln Chapter 1. Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln PART I. LOCATING THE FIELD Chapter 2. Revitalizing Universities by Reinventing the Social Sciences: Bildung and Action Research - Morten Levin and Davydd Greenwood Chapter 3. A History of Qualitative Inquiry in Social and Educational Research - Frederick Erickson Chapter 4. Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research - Clifford Christians Chapter 5. Ethics, Research Regulations, and Critical Social Science - Gaile Cannella and Yvonna S. Lincoln PART II. PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN CONTENTION Chapter 6. Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences, Revisited - Yvonna S. Lincoln, Susan A. Lynham, and Egon G. Guba Chapter 7. Feminist Qualitative Research in the Millenium?s First Decade: Developments, Challenges, Prospects - Virgina Olesen Chapter 8. The Sacred and Spiritual Nature of Endarkened Transnational Feminist Praxis in Qualitative Research - Cynthia B. Dillard and Chinwe Okpalaoka Chapter 9. Critical Pedagogy, and Qualitative Research: Moving to the Bricolage - Joe L. Kincheloe, Peter McLaren and Shirley Steinberg Chapter 10. Cultural Studies: Performative Imperatives and Bodily Articulations - Michael D. Giardina and Josh L. Newman Chapter 11. Critical Humanism and Queer Theory: Postscript 2011: Living With the Tensions - Ken Plummer Chapter 12. Asian Epistemologies and Contemporary Social Psychological Research - James Liu Chapter 13. Disability Communities: Transformative Research for Social Justice - Donna Mertens, Martin Sullivan and Hilary Stacei Part III. STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY Chapter 14. The Politics and Practices of Funding Qualitative Inquiry: Messages about messages about messages - Julianne Cheek Chapter 15. Controversies in Mixed Methods Research - John W. Creswell Chapter 16. Mixed Methods Research: Contemporary Issues in an Emerging Field - Charles Teddlie and Abbas Tashakkori Chapter 17. Case Study - Bent Flyvbjerg Chapter 18. Performance Ethnography - Judith Hamera Chapter 19. Braiding Narrative Ethnography with Memoir and Creative Nonfiction - Barbara Tedlock Chapter 20. The Constructionist Analytics of Interpretive Practice - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium Chapter 21. Grounded Theory Methods in Social Justice Research - Kathy Charmaz Chapter 22. In the Name of Human Rights: I say (how) you (should) speak (before I listen) - Antjie Krog Chapter 23. Jazz and the Banyan Tree: Roots and Riffs on Participatory Action Research - Mary Brydon-Miller, Michael Kral, Patricia Maguire, Susan Noffke and Anu Sabhlok Chapter 24. What Is Qualitative Health Research? - Janice M. Morse Chapter 25. Narrative Inquiry: Still a Field in the Making - Susan E. Chase Chapter 26. Critical Arts-based Inquiry The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic - Susan Finley PART IV. METHODS OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING EMPIRICAL MATERIALS Chapter 27. Oral History - Linda Shopes Chapter 28. Observations on Observation: Continuities and Challenges - Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg Chapter 29. Visual Methodology: towards a more seeing research - Jon D. Prosser Chapter 30. Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry Chapter 31. The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography - Sarah Gaston Chapter 32. Analyzing Talk and Text - Anssi Perakyla and Johanna Ruusuvuori Chapter 33. Focus Groups: Contingent Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry - George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis PART V: THE ART AND PRACTICES OF INTERPRETATION, EVALUATION, AND PRESENTATION Chapter 34. Qualitative Research, Science and Government: Evidence, Criteria, Policy and Politics - Harry Torrance Chapter 35. Reflections on Interpretive Adequacy in Qualitative Research - David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson Chapter 36. Analysis and Representation across the Continuum - Laura L. Ellingson Chapter 37. Post Qualitative Research: The Critique and the Coming After - Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre Chapter 38. Qualitative Research and Technology: In the Midst of a Revolution - Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio Chapter 39. The Elephant in the Living Room, or Extending the Conversation About the Politics of Evidence - Norman K. Denzin Chapter 40. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation - Ronald J. Pelias Chapter 41. Evaluation as a Relationally Responsible Practice - Tineke Abma and Guy A. M. Widdershoven PART VI. THE FUTURE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH Chapter 42. Qualitative Futures: Where We Might Go From Where We've Been - Judith Preissle Chapter 43. Teaching qualitative research - Margaret Eisenhart and S. Jurow

About the Author

Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including The Qualitative Manifesto, Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire, and Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, editor of International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and founding Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of Higher Education and Educational Administration at Texas A & M University. She is author, coauthor, or editor of such books as Naturalistic Inquiry and Fourth Generation Evaluation (both with Egon G. Guba), and Organizational Theory and Inquiry. Vice President of Division J (Postsecondary Education) of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Lincoln formerly served as president of the American Evaluation Association and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. Dr. Lincoln coedited, with Dr. Denzin, the Handbook of Qualitative Research.

Reviews

"Like previous editions, this offers the most comprehensive analysis in a single volume of the theories, techniques, and foundational thought underpinning qualitative inquiry... Highly recommended." -- CHOICE