bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
Dual interference effects in a line-by-line inscribed fiber Bragg grating
Authors: Huang Bo , Xu Zuowei , Shu Xuewen
Published: April 2020

Fiber Bragg grating (FBG) usually can be seen as a stack of Fabry–Perot (FP) cavities, which result in strong Bragg resonance through multi-cavity FP interference. In this Letter, we report surprising and interesting dual interference effects in a line-by-line (LBL) inscribed FBG with a femtosecond laser. Besides the well-known FP effect, the equivalent Mach–Zehnder interference (MZI) effect caused by mode interference can also be observed in the LBL FBG simultaneously. The experimental results of the comparison between the LBL FBGs and the point-by-point inscribed FBGs show that the dual interference effects are merely observed in the LBL FBGs. Meanwhile, the achieved MZI exhibits a strong polarization dependence. Sharing the merits of the FBG and MZI simultaneously, the achieved optical fiber device may find potential applications in optical fiber communication, fiber lasers, and multi-parameter sensor systems.
Development of an ultra-compact optical combiner for augmented reality using geometric phase lenses
Authors: Cui Wei , Chang Chenliang , Gao Liang
Published: April 2020

We present an ultra-compact optical combiner using a waveguide and geometric phase lenses (GPL) for augmented reality displays. By sandwiching the output coupler of a planar waveguide between two flat, thin GPLs, we create two optical sub-systems with different optical powers for displaying the virtual objects and transmitting the ambient light rays, respectively. We implemented our method in a scanning-based Maxwellian display and demonstrated the augmentation of an all-in-focus Maxwellian-view image with real-world objects within a 15° field of view. Our device is light (50 g) and thin (4 mm), making it well suited for wearable applications.
Novel spectral-shaping building block: a narrowband Mach–Zehnder interferometer
Authors: Davis Jordan A. , Li Ang , Alshamrani Naif , Fainman Yeshaiahu
Published: April 2020

We present an experimental demonstration of notch filters with arbitrary center wavelengths capable of tunable analog output power values varying between full extinction of 15 and 0 dB. Each filter is composed of highly modular apodized four-port Bragg add/drop filters to reduce the crosstalk between concatenated devices. The constructed photonic integrated circuit experimentally demonstrates spectra shaping using four independent notch filters. Each notch filter supports a bandwidth of

∼
2
  
nm

and is shown to be suitable for realization of programmable photonic integrated circuits.
Diseño y Evaluación de Programas Educativos en el Ámbito Social (‘Design and evaluation of educational programs in the social field’), Margarita Pino Juste (ed.) (2017)
Authors: Aguiar Fernández Francisco-Xabier
Published: April 2020

Review of: Diseño y Evaluación de Programas Educativos en el Ámbito Social (‘Design and evaluation of educational programs in the social field’), Margarita Pino Juste (ed.) (2017)

Madrid: Alianza Editorial, 299 pp.,

ISBN 978-8-49104-729-2, h/bk, €22.80

ISBN 978-8-49104-730-8 8, e/bk, €15.98
SARCOMA DE SÍTIO DE APLICAÇÃO EM FELINOS
Authors: Silva Amanda Trevizan Rodrigues , Stehling Patricia de Castro , Greco Gisela Mara Zambroti , Coelho Mariana de Resende , Nogueira Rodrigo Bernardes
Published: April 2020

Sarcomas de sítio de aplicação são neoplasias malignas de origem mesenquimal caracterizadas pelo comportamento biológico agressivo. Apesar da extensa pesquisa, a patogênese da doença ainda não está totalmente esclarecida, acredita-se que a administração de vacinas, medicamentos e outros injetáveis no tecido subcutâneo ou intramuscular em gatos predispostos, pode induzir uma reação inflamatória crônica e, posteriormente, a transformação neoplásica. O diagnóstico é realizado por meio da biópsia, porém deve ser feito avaliação da extensão do tumor primário, o estadiamento padrão e a avaliação geral da saúde desses pacientes. A abordagem terapêutica multimodal, associando a excisão cirúrgica radical Ã  radioterapia, quimioterapia ou imunoterapia, tem demonstrado melhores resultados. A escolha do local de injeção, frequência de vacinação e recomendações para reduzir a reação inflamatória são considerações importantes para a prevenção. O objetivo desta revisão é fornecer uma visão geral do atual conhecimento sobre sarcoma de sítio de aplicação em felinos.
Mathematical Model of Cervical Cancer Treatment Using Chemotherapy Drug
Authors: Murtono Murtono , Ndii Meksianis Zadrak , Sugiyanto Sugiyanto
Published: April 2020

Cervical cancer is a malignant disease that causes problems in women's health, especially in developing countries such as Indonesia. Cervical cancer cells will develop quickly, uncontrollably, and will continue to divide and then infiltrate the surrounding tissue and continue to spread to connective tissue, blood, and attack important organs and spinal nerves. The aim of the research is to study the mathematical model of cervical cancer by chemotherapy treatment. The results of this study are that cervical cancer treatment using chemotherapy is effective enough to kill abnormal cells such as infected cells, pre-cancerous cells and cancer cells, although there are side effects, namely the killing of normal cells due to chemotherapy drugs.
El trabajo ambulante: entre derecho a la ciudad y represión
Authors: Molinero-Gerbeau Yoan , Avallone Gennaro
Published: April 2020

Los manteros senegaleses de la ciudad de Salerno han sido objeto, en los últimos años, de políticas represivas fruto del ordenamiento neoliberal del espacio público que se ha impulsado desde las instituciones de esta ciudad. A través de este estudio de caso buscaremos reflejar las principales características del conflicto, así como las respuestas de los actores involucrados. Podrá verse de esta manera que, frente a la represión ejercida contra este colectivo, sus protagonistas han reaccionado desplegando una notoria capacidad de agencia con el objetivo no solo de resistir, sino de construir nuevas lógicas políticas que permitan un gobierno más democrático de la ciudad. Así, la resistencia de los manteros en Salerno se englobará dentro de una lucha más amplia, replicada en numerosas otras ciudades del mundo, contra el “decoro urbano” y por el derecho a la ciudad.
Isto é muito Black Mirror?
Authors: Dellarmelin Mateus Luan
Published: April 2020

Recensão do livro “Isso (não) é muito Black Mirror: passado, presente e futuro das tecnologias de informação e comunicação”, do pesquisador e professor Doutor André Martins Lemos (2018). A obra analisa todos os episódios das quatro temporadas de Black Mirror.
Pathologies and Dysfunctions of Democracy in the Media Context
Authors: Lopera-Mármol Marta
Published: April 2020

From 12 to 14 November 2018, Universidade da Beira Interior hosted the II International Conference titled: “Pathologies and Dysfunctions of Democracy in a Mediated Context: the new dystopian imaginary of the 21st century. From Orwell to Black Mirror. From Big Brother to Big Data”.
Urgent Media and Nontheatrical Ecologies
Authors: Francis Terri
Published: April 2020

This introductory essay and interview trace Esther Figueroa's career in media, particularly the films she has written, directed, edited, and produced as part of specific campaigns to mobilize Jamaica's environmental movement against bauxite mining, tourism, and overfishing. Figueroa discusses her upbringing, her work in television in Hawaii, and the roles that feminism and race have played in her life and work.
Hollywood Regionalism
Authors: Edwards Alexandra
Published: April 2020

In her sixty years on earth, Gene Stratton-Porter was many things: a women's club organizer, nature photographer, naturalist, conservationist, best-selling novelist, and a burgeoning film producer who died just as her film studio began to realize her mission of adapting her novels into movies that could further her education and conservation efforts. By 1960, eight of her books had been turned into twenty-one films—silent and sound, black and white and color, from Poverty Row studios to members of the Big Five. This article examines how Stratton-Porter and others translated her regionalism and conservationism to film across a span of forty-three years that saw major revolutions in Hollywood filmmaking. The Hollywood studio system, I argue, appropriated her successful brand of regionalism and her audience of women's club members, while also augmenting her problematically genteel mode of activism.
A Fine Line
Authors: Cheek Julianne
Published: April 2020

Proponents of qualitative inquiry are both positioned, and in turn position themselves, in the wake of the effects of the politics of evidence. Such positioning is thus a dynamic process. It is not simply imposed or determined by others. Qualitative researchers are both worked on by, and in turn work on, understandings of research and research evidence. One potentially hidden or unexplored outworking of such a dynamic is the possible rise within qualitative inquiry itself of new forms of research fundamentalism in response, but also as reaction, to attempts to normalize and define research related evidence. This creates a fine line for qualitative research to tread in terms of positioning and transforming practice(s) in the wake of the politics of evidence.
Revisiting Mianscum's ‘telling what you know’ in Indigenous Qualitative Research
Authors: Stonebanks Christopher Darius , Wootton Kathleen
Published: April 2020

In his 1972 court appearance, (James Bay Cree vs. James Bay Energy Corporation), François Mianscum was asked to swear on the Bible to “tell the truth”. The Cree hunter had been summoned to account for his “way of life” and speak about the impact of massive development on his traditional hunting ground by the construction of hydroelectric dams. After contemplation and deliberation of a seemingly routine court request his translator responded, “He does not know whether he can tell the truth. He can only tell what he knows.” (Richardson, 1975, P. 46) Cited widely through Clifford's (1986) inclusion of “the story” for its importance, how can his words guide researchers' approach to “honesty” in qualitative inquiry? This paper turns to the significant members of Mianscum's life to ask how they interpret his statement and what messages can be gained from it while carrying out research in both the indigenous and non-indigenous context.
A Whole Sense of Self, a Whole Sense of the World
Authors: Dillard Cynthia B.
Published: April 2020

The paper focuses on defining and consciously re-membering spirituality as fundamental to the practice and praxis of multicultural research and teaching. In what I describe as the blessings of spirituality, I examine the ways that examining spirituality in international/global contexts can help us to theorize “in the flesh” (Hurtado, 2003), engaging research that seeks to address social justice in its practice and outcomes. Thus, the blessings of spirituality are also the basis for political commitments to informed moral action and principled political praxis in our lives and work as researcher-teachers.
Indigenous Discourse and “the Material”
Authors: Jones Alison , Jenkins Kuni
Published: April 2020

Following Judith Butler's idea of “materialization,” the authors consider the effects of three different approaches to historical information about the educational relationship between indigenous and settler peoples. As a part of an argument about how one might legitimately study the establishment of such a relationship and take seriously the viewpoint of the indigenous people, the authors asks what it becomes possible to think when we eschew popular “multiple discourses” in favour of a strategic engagement with a post-interpretivist empiricism. The authors — respectively descendants of white settlers and indigenous Māori — focus on a material reality not present in the archives recording the initial interactions between the indigenous people and the first permanent British settlers in New Zealand.
Gendered Labor
Authors: Alexander Bryant Keith
Published: April 2020

This project is an excerpt from an ongoing ethnographically based exploration of Black women hair care professionals in the Los Angeles area and the domesticity of public service. The work extrapolates and applies the narrated experiences of the Black woman hair care professional (BWHCP) into the interlocking spheres of race, culture, performance, and the social marketing of identity in both the formal and informal economy. The project is an experimental ethnography working at the intersections of critical and interpretive methodologies that foreground the author/ethnographer's critical and poetic reflections on the process of interpreting ethnographic data and the experience of engaging the cultural familiar. The project further argues that in the practices and cultural performances of these women — the local is political and the political is global.
Failed Survey
Authors: Trnavcevic Anita , Logaj Vinko , Sirca Nada Trunk
Published: April 2020

One of the Slovenian faculties approached the “penetration” of the international markets with “optimism and in a systematic way,” meaning that a survey was conducted in the Balkan region in order to establish the “needs” of the region, subsequently to promote one of the programs that the Faculty offers and to attract foreign students to enroll in the program. The survey failed. The question of the failed survey was later raised again, basically with the purpose of putting “pieces” from the “ruins” of the survey together as a bricolage — a research discourse that significantly disrupts and disturbs the disciplinarity in and of sciences. In this paper we raise issues about cultural diversity, policy borrowing, and translation issues.
Becoming Men, Becoming-Men?
Authors: Gale Ken , Wyatt Jonathan
Published: April 2020

In their collaborations over recent years the authors have worked, through their written dialogue, in pursuit of understanding subjectivities and their ‘becomings’. Until now they have not explicitly explored their subjectivities as men. Their starting point in this paper is that they do not take the assignation ‘men’ for granted. Using collective biography, they are interested in how the worlds that they inhabited and that inhabited them in their early lives produced, and continue to produce, ‘boys’ and ‘men’.
Finding “Fields” in the Field
Authors: Patton Cindy
Published: April 2020

The author revisits the work of a research team on which she served in the early 1990s to show why researchers have difficulty recognizing that social identities are not only heterologo U.S. (referring to different objects), but also heteromorphic (formed in different ways). While activists have eventually convinced researchers that sexuality has many different contexts and meanings, most health educators apply this insight by simply increasing the number of contents possible in an identity still thought in ego-psychology terms, that is, as the integration of self-esteem, values, and a realistic assessment of behavior. The team on which the author served recognized “identity” as a combination of identification with and disidentification from various possible labels, and viewed identity as conflicted and as discursively inter-relating the “self” and institutional structures. Nevertheless, this insight could not get analytic purchase in the context of a large, positivistic contract research team. The author identifies three cases in which the dominant research conceptualizations of identity and behavior misread the situations the team was uncovering.
Mapping Territories
Authors: Kaufmann Jodi
Published: April 2020

Space is gendered. Not only is it constructed along a male/female binary (Duncan, 1996), it also emerges within a transgender dimension. Beyond the work of Nameste (2000) on space and who has the right to occupy it and Haberstam (2005) on space and the archive, there is a paucity of literature discussing transsexual space. Yet, learning to read this space is important, for it is within space that transsexual bodies are conscribed to the margins, erased in explosive passion, and allowed to become human (Butler, 2004). Although one can read space in different ways (Agnew, 2005), one does not choose a method to read it because it is true (Rose, 1999), but because it is useful. Therefore, desiring the possibility of deterritorializing lines of flight that disrupt the strata of heterosexual space, it is the purpose of this paper to examine how space, interpreted through the philosophy of Deleuze and Guattari (1987), functions in the lives of male-to-female-transsexuals.
Affect[ing] Bodies
Authors: Markula Pirkko
Published: April 2020

This paper argues for a performative methodology that uses body's affect to create change in the current subjectivation to femininity. It locates this discussion into a context of fitness instruction to explore how a researcher can assume a role of a public intellectual through performative pedagogy. It is divided into four parts. The first part examines how critical pedagogy has been utilized previously within physical cultural studies to find ways to further understand how physical activity can be used for purposes of social change. The second part focuses on how physical education can inform critical body practices. The third part aims to link this discussion with feminist readings of critical pedagogy to further understand how femininity can be linked with practices of fitness instruction. It also introduces Deleuze's concept of affect. The final part discusses the implications of this literature for creating a performative pedagogy of the body through fitness instruction.
Old World Immigrants
Authors: Athens Lonnie
Published: April 2020

During this tale, Father Constantine conducts a funeral service for Herikula Zaharias, a long-time member of his congregation. After delivering his incensed-filled eulogy, Father Constantine recalls the circumstances surrounding her immigration to Virginia from Samos, Greece, and life in America with her husband, Lombros, after their arranged marriage in 1924. Among other things, Father Constantine points out that while Samos is known for its beautiful women, Mrs. Zaharias' culinary skills even surpassed her great beauty. He also notes that by all counts their marriage was a successful one, although as was customary at the time, it was arranged. The funeral service ends at Riverview Cemetery, which is wedged between the city's larger white Protestant and black graveyards, with Lombros saying “goodnight” to his wife of 34 years for the last time.
A Family Jigsaw Story
Authors: Davis Christine S.
Published: April 2020

This autoethnographic narrative shows the complexity of family secrets and disclosure, and suggests that family stories — told and untold — are formed systemically, within a system — within a web of disclosures and reactions, trust and hurt, anger and understanding. This story illustrates the cyclical and holistic nature of family relationships; and discusses how family relationships develop through waves of understanding, reflection, pain, and forgiveness. In this narrative, I propose that in order to understand ourselves and our families, we must look at the big picture, within the context of all of our stories, intertwined and interconnected. Our puzzle has no beginning or end. It is part of a cycle of life, dropped in and looking backwards and forwards, reframing and recreating multiple meanings and identities. This paper also discusses the relational ethics of writing about family secrets in autoethnographic research.
Learning to be An American
Authors: Kaufmann Jodi
Published: April 2020

As a white, American wife of an Iranian, I spent several months in Iran in 1979 and again in 1987. My experiences on these trips to my husband's home were profound and devastating. These experiences deeply troubled my understanding of what it meant to be a citizen of the United States. In this autoethnographic narrative, I work between experience, people's history, published history, theory, and poetry to trouble my position as an American.
An Identity Montage Using Collaborative Autobiography
Authors: Lapadat Judith C. , Bryant Lonni , Burrows Marja , Greenlees Susan , Alexander Jean , Marcil Naseeb , Nelson Lorna Jean , Ormerod Louise , Rendell Deborah , Schmidt Lisa , Viveiros Susan E. , Hansen Niels , Sousa Cindy , Hill Anne Spitzer
Published: April 2020

As counsellors, educators, and helping professionals in small communities, we were curious about the relationship between personal and professional identity. We wondered how people like ourselves negotiate role, view our contributions, and construe our place in history. Working within a narrative inquiry paradigm, our approach was both autoethnographic and collaborative. Each of us contributed a piece of autobiographical writing, and we pooled the texts for thematic analysis. Using polyphonic montage, we compare two of the analyses, and interpret what they reveal about identity and role. Through telling and hearing stories of experience, we have pieced together autoethnographic texts to speak beyond the self about a vision of community and making a difference.
“Poem is What?” Poetic Inquiry in Qualitative Social Science Research
Authors: Prendergast Monica
Published: April 2020

This paper articulates the findings of a two-year Canadian federally-funded postdoctoral study — Poetic inquiry in qualitative research: A critical survey — on the use of poetry in social science qualitative research practices. Based on a 1000+ page annotated bibliography gathered into a critical anthology as the data for this project, the discoveries emerged that are expressed below. The bibliography consists solely of poems included in over 230 studies found for this multidisciplinary project, supported by abstracts and brief contextual notes. Selection criteria for included studies were peer-reviewed journal contributions only, bracketing out anything that had appeared in book form, in ‘Poet's Corners’, and also excluding poems appearing in theses or dissertations. Some of these excluded poems are cited in a separate Appendix. These criteria were made simply to limit the scope of the study to a manageable scale. Most of this poetically-informed scholarship has appeared in the past decade, although some entries date as far back as the 1970's and 80's. Conclusions are that poetic inquiry most often addresses topics with clear affective dimensions, and can be distinguished between participant-based and self-study foci, with occasional examples of theoretical studies. Participant-based studies generally draw on the literary tradition of found poetry to represent participant data. Self-studies may address more philosophical, phenomenological and/or poststucturalist opportunities that present themselves through the use of poetry in social science contexts.
Conversation with Sylvia in Colour
Authors: Reece Jane
Published: April 2020

This paper takes the form of two imaginary meetings with the resurrected figure of the writer Sylvia Plath, in 1967 and 2007, informed by the work of Lieblich (1997) and Speedy (2005; 2007b). It is loosely based on recollections by Al Alvarez (1974:20–53; 2005:29–33), one of the last people to see Plath alive before her death on 13 February 1967, and from Plath's journals (1983). I have drawn from Plath's autobiographical novel, The Bell Jar, the many speculations on Plath's last days that provided material for Wintering (Moses, 2003), and from Birthday Letters (1999) — Ted Hughes' poetry collection concerning his marriage to Sylvia Plath.
Learning to Walk
Authors: Russell Larry
Published: April 2020

The practices of an annual, hundred-mile pilgrimage to a shrine of healing dirt in New Mexico offer a remarkable discourse on social compassion as participants ritually share the suffering of people whose pleas for prayer they carry. For seven years I have been known as the middle-aged, Anglo professor from Brooklyn who joins them. My participation does not provide me a privileged view but a modest opportunity to learn through my aging body, urban sensibility, and recalcitrant agnostic spirit. As I negotiate the distance of this long passage, I am shaped by the physicality of the road, the geographic conditions of New Mexico, and the context of Hispanic Roman Catholicism that challenge the comfort of my niche in academe and offer me a model of compassion to sustain social concern. The harsh conditions of my journey teach me about sacrifice and humility, not as pietistic attitudes but as “sensible” responses to a life where I am not protected by the privileges of my race, class, and gender.
Bodies of/as Evidence in Autoethnography
Authors: Spry Tami
Published: April 2020

Qualitative researchers are aptly positioned to address issues implicated in the politics of evidence in scholarship. Autoethnography in particular carries important methodological implications for how the body is sited in what constitutes knowledge, evidence, and the evidence of knowledge. I argue that if autoethnography is epistemic, then the evidence of how we know what we know must reside in the aesthetic crafting of critical reflexion upon the body-as-evidence. As we develop “post” methodologies we may be in danger of expecting the personal or emotional to stand in for literary acumen. Performative autoethnography resides in the intersections of knowledge construction and art, in the aesthetic articulation of the performative body, in a personally political reflection whose evidence is an epistemic/aesthetic praxis. I utilize autoethnographic writing on loss and hope to operationalize the epistemic/aesthetic praxis as an ethical imperative for performative autoethnography.
Day and Night Hunting
Authors: Gleason Judith
Published: April 2020

Certain episodes of intense fieldwork, though documented on site and working their way into print, may later haunt their erstwhile scribe as though clamoring for more thematic salience. Decades after the events recalled in this essay, a distinguished pianist invited her peripatetic friend to participate in a literary occasion to take place in a spacious living room (accommodating a grand piano) where for years she has been previewing new programs for an intimate audience. Accepting this generous invitation, the writer thought to placate that tenacious clamor by arranging elements of forays into the Malien bush so as to take them up a hermeneutical notch. The resulting text combines seasoned narrative (culled from a book entertaining the notion of a pan-African hunting goddess) with spruced up journal entries—thus reviving sensations inviting reflective embellishment. Figurative codas expand the tenor of each trip as gleaming or murky. However remote the donsonton from their collective ken, the audience in that room excelled in listening.
Between Diagnosis and Death
Authors: Mulcahy Caitlin M. , Parry Diana C. , Glover Troy D.
Published: April 2020

While analyzing the transcripts of interviews with cancer survivors and writing up her findings, the first author found herself suffering from a writer's block of sorts. She was stuck, unable to move forward, encircled by a cloud of voices. Some voices came from the empirical data of the study, others emerged out of her private personal experiences, and one materialized from somewhere altogether more mysterious, urging her to bring the two together. This performance text aims to evoke that struggle to grapple with the many ‘ghosts’ that haunt our research (Doucet, 2008), while also working through the challenge of telling a ‘true’ cancer story (Park-Fuller, 2008). Interviews with 26 members of Gilda's Club of Greater Toronto (a meeting place for people affected by cancer) served as the data that was analyzed utilizing narrative analysis. Excerpts from the interviews were woven together to create the lines spoken by the character of the father. Three additional speaking parts were created—the daughter, the ghost, and the narrator—to help explore themes of isolation, navigation, and reflexivity. Thus, this is a story about feeling lost as a person living with cancer. But it is also a story about feeling lost as a researcher. Ultimately, it is the story of individuals struggling to make the pieces of their lives fit together, struggling to make their way forward, without always knowing how to do either.
Three Ways to Lose Your Epistemology
Authors: Tamas Sophie
Published: April 2020

This piece offers an autoethnographic examination of the unraveling of epistemic certainty. The reader is offered three stories of falling, which explain the author's loss of knowing as a result of education, trauma, or apostacy. The aporias and assumptions in each story are teased out as we explore what they profess, where they fall silent, and how they understand uncertainty. Rather than determining which story is true, the text asks ethical and practical questions about where each story takes us. The irreconcilability of these three narratives raises questions about the limits of pluralism, how we respond to ideological difference, and the viability of our need to know.
Beyond Single Identity & Pathology
Authors: VanOra Jason , Ouellette Suzanne C.
Published: April 2020

This paper uses a conceptual framework based in critical personality psychology and a narrative strategy of inquiry to understand how two transgender women, whose lives and identities are depicted by sociological and clinical literatures as unidimensional and pathological, construct a set of multiple, coherent, and transformative selves. Through their unique approaches to questions posed in McAdams' (1995b) Life Story Interview, these women depict multiple selves, a multiplicity not identified in previous research that focused on a single transgender identity. These women's selves include female selves, activist selves, gay-community based selves, and selves related to race, class, and culture. These women demonstrate authentic commitments to social justice and social transformation through their attempts and capacities to establish coherence among these and other multiple selves within contexts related to activism and personal relationships. Finally, these women's lives challenge traditional race/class distinctions as they pertain to privilege. While race and class strongly contextualize both narratives, culture is theorized as a more useful construct in explaining differences between these two women with regard to the social struggles and isolation they face.
Distinguished Performances
Authors: Cooper Karyn , White Robert E.
Published: April 2020

Because society has invested in education to resolve numerous social problems relating to schools, neighborhoods and communities, educational research is of paramount significance. Qualitative research in education has, in the past several decades, experienced an explosion of new methodologies endeavoring to address the messy, complex and dynamic nature of life in this postmodern era. Education has drawn from conceptual and methodological theories in qualitative research from various disciplines and professions. This video-paper highlights interviews with distinguished scholars such as Professors Zygmunt Bauman, Norman Denzin, Henry Giroux, Maxine Greene and William Pinar, who provide key insights into the educative role of disciplines relating to qualitative research in education.
DDD + Assemblage
Authors: Reinertsen Anne Beate
Published: April 2020

This is a writing story about becoming. It is therefore about change and about identifying myself—deconstructing myself—as learner always: “Getting smart” “getting lost” and “getting real” eventually as doing what we consider to be the ideal; moral perfectibility and learning as both function and fiction. It is a Deleuzian stumbling nomadic and rhizomatic inquiry into creating community through not and supplements and the displacement of terms: Subject/subjectivity/reconstruction/deconstruction/intersubjectivity/ co-construction/co-deconstruction…—being under erasure. Sentence (de) construction might therefore be sometimes a bit stumbling too. Thinking Deleuze and Derrida and a little bit of Dewey together: DDD + assemblage. A deconstructive auto ethnography, autobiography, youto(o)biography: Writing community, school and ultimately research together hopefully picking up speed in the middle.
Inside the Circus
Authors: Warren-Findlow Jan
Published: April 2020

Qualitative researchers are trained to acknowledge, reflect on, and understand our experiences and bias which form the context in which we will conduct research and inform our analyses. In this auto ethnographic account I describe how my personal experience with breast cancer has destabilized my professional life and my identity. Using the analogy of a circus, the story elements weave back and forth highlighting the three competing spheres of academia: as a researcher, a teacher, and for me, a feminist. The issues of deciding how to portray my story in each of those venues, and choosing how much to reveal or conceal to students and in publications, are deeply intertwined with the qualitative concepts of integrity and authenticity. The ability to comprehend an illness experience and the bias it creates is central to developing a post-cancer identity, a cohesive body of research, and an authentic teaching persona.
Apocalypse Now
Authors: Denzin Norman K.
Published: April 2020

This short one-act play addresses the criticisms of postmodern ethnography by Hammersely and others. It suggests that much of the criticism reflects misinterpretations of the new work. Critics are challenged to become more open-minded in their evaluations of alternative ways of doing critical qualitative inquiry.
Tales from the Crypt
Authors: Richardson Laurel
Published: April 2020

In this autoethnographic article, I contrast two experiences at the Midwest Sociological Society's 2007 meeting. In the first, Peter and Patti Adler take turns reading and pointing to their power point presentation during their presidential address. “Pomo is no mo,” they say, while “classical ethnography” thrives, concerned with (1) literary value, (2) narrative thrust, (3) reflexivity, and (4) ethics. I think this sounds quite pomo'ish. In the second experience, I am a presenter at a gender session. The room is bursting with energy, and the testimonies of young postmodernist ethnographers. I conclude that “pomo is so.”
Human Rights Theory
Authors: Fields A. Belden
Published: April 2020

This article attempts to explore the possibilities of grounding human rights theoretically. It examines arguments that such an attempt is futile because the concept itself is flawed, arguments that the concept is a valid one and only becomes flawed when it is overextended in scope, and presents my own “holistic” argument that some of the arguments for constraining the scope do not hold up under deeper scrutiny.
Speaking in Silences
Authors: kumar hari stephen
Published: April 2020

I should say, abstractly, that this is about racism, if only I knew what races I should tattoo on my transnational post-colonial narcissistic subaltern brown body that so enjoys being white. I should rather say this is about silences invoked in my body during moments of misconstructed identity, silences between belonging and betrayal, if only I did not love dancing in the tensions between boring and exotic. I am saying much now, but I said little then, while so much was said by me in me for me. So all I have for you here are maddening silences.
When Janitors Dare to Become Scholars
Authors: Moreira Claudio , Diversi Marcelo
Published: April 2020

In this performance autoethnography we re-present our experiences of disembodied knowledge construction in mainstream American academia. We claim that knowledge production about the Other still tends to reify the very oppression it intends to challenge. Can a janitor become a scholar without having to bury experiences under layers of theory and other technologies of justification? Or are marginalized humans relegated to a subordinate position of research subject in the process of knowledge production? Neither? Both? Troubling the recurring experience of “my bad English,” we try to show that folks lacking an educated upbringing can contribute to the decolonizing dialogue through something no technology of methods can provide: visceral lived experience of systemic oppression. We are insisting on narrative space for visceral knowledge to advance decolonizing discourses that may lead to more inclusive notions of social justice.
What Kind of Mourning?
Authors: Wyatt Jonathan
Published: April 2020

This paper continues the author's exploration of the experience of mourning his late father, following three earlier papers on the same theme. The impulse to write into the experience of loss, to tell in writing his father's stories, is interrogated through the narrating of such accounts and the questioning of this process in light of ideas about both the ‘normal’ progress of bereavement and meanings of loss.
Troubling Detail
Authors: Wyatt Jonathan
Published: April 2020

At the end of 2008, Carolyn Ellis published Revisions, in which she revisits and reflects upon previously published work. This paper was originally written for a “Reader meets Author” Plenary at the 5th International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, May 22nd–23rd, 2009, held at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.1 Each member of the panel was invited to choose a passage, comment and raise questions (particularly about writing) for Carolyn Ellis to respond to. The paper focuses on the chapter where Ellis returns to two papers about her then ageing mother.
The Snow Angel and Other Imprints
Authors: Livholts Mona
Published: April 2020

This article, written in the form of an untimely academic novella is a text, which explores academic authoring as thinking and writing practice in a place called Sweden. The aim is on inquiries of geographical space, place, and academia, and the interrelation between the social and symbolic formation of class, gender and whiteness. The novella uses different writing strategies and visual representations such as documentary writing and photographing from the research process, letters to a friend, and memories from childhood, based on three generations of women's lives. The methodology can be described as a critical reflexive writing strategy inspired by poststructuralist and postcolonial feminist theory and literary fiction, and additionally by methodological approaches in the humanities and social sciences, such as theorizing of letters, memory work, and narrative, and autobiographical approaches. In particular, it draws on work by the theorist critic and writer of fiction, Hélène Cixous, and the feminist author and theorist Charlotte Perkins Gilman, drawing on interpretation of Cixous' essay “Enter the Theatre” and Gilman's story “The Yellow Wallpaper.” Characteristics of the untimely academic novella elaborate with possible forms of the symbolic, visual, and performative photographic and sensory in writing research; furthermore, time, social change, and unfinal endings play a pervasive role. It may be read as a story that situates and theorizes embodyment, landscape, and power through the interweaving of forest rural farming spaces and academic office spaces by tracing autobiographical imprints of an untimely feminist author. “The Snow Angel and Other Imprints” is the second article in a trilogy of untimely academic novellas. The first, with the title “The Professor's Chair,” was published in Swedish in 2007 (in the anthology “Genus och det akademiska skrivandets former,” (Eds.) Bränström Öhman & Livholts), and forthcoming in English in the journal Life Writing 2010.
Can the Silenced Speak?
Authors: Atkinson Paul , Delamont Sara
Published: April 2020

This dialogue is a counter-narrative to Norman Denzin's one-act play Apocalypse Now. There Denzin engages with critics of postmodern qualitative inquiry, and in which Martyn Hammersley is the main target of criticism.
Ten Years of Critical Communicative Methodology
Authors: Gómez Aitor , Racionero Sandra , Sordé Teresa
Published: April 2020

The critical communicative methodology has been developed by the Center of Research in Theories and Practices that Overcome Inequalities, CREA, as a research response to the dialogic turn of societies and sciences. It stresses that egalitarian dialogues between the scientific community and the lifeworld of the researched subjects are necessary to reach greater levels of social justice. For this dialogue to occur, the critical communicative methodology involves participants in all the stages, from the definition of the research questions until the interpretation and dissemination of results. In this article, we explain in depth the critical communicative methodology, its differences with other research approaches, the characteristics of the communicative organization of research studies, the communicative techniques for collecting empirical materials, and the communicative analysis. We also provide examples of the socio-political impact of Spanish and European research studies conducted with the critical communicative methodology to show the multiple ways through which dialogic research contributes to transform reality and improve the lives of the groups studied. The article is also a historical narrative that shows the ongoing development and impact of the critical communicative methodology over its now ten years of history.
Telltale Maps
Authors: Hager Tamar , Mazali Rela , Saba Tuffaha
Published: April 2020

This article will present a compound tool for raising consciousness and nurturing resistance, comprising both cognitive maps and autoethnographies. Termed “autoethnographic mapping” by the authors, this tool has been highly effective in work with a dialogue group of Palestinian and Jewish students in Israel. It has played a central role in uncovering power structures, tracing the details of their concrete embodiment in the individual lives of students. Providing non-standard insights into how continued conflict informs individual lives, this composite tool has changed its practitioners' sense of self and identity. The paper analyzes four instances of autoethnographic mapping, demonstrating the practitioners' unfolding critical reflection on aspects of power in their personal lives and their emerging individual resistance to its dictates. Framed by the college course occasioning extended meetings between students from groups embroiled in political conflict, the process allowed meaningful exchanges and a growing solidarity between participants.
Transgressions
Authors: Poulos Christopher N.
Published: April 2020

This performance (auto)ethnography confronts the continuing controversy surrounding qualitative inquiry via examination of the tenure process in a particular case. The perils and delights of the performative/autoethnographic voice take center stage as “transgressions” against the status quo. This is a story about the call of autoethnography, about the perils and delights of engaging the autoethnographic voice. It's also about the broader (and deeper) reasons for pursuing the autoethnographic life, even in an academy that often seems hostile to the impulse that drives so-called qualitative inquiry. In the end, it's about the courage to transgress, to reach across the boundaries that threaten to contain us—or even shut us down.
(Performance Is) Metaphors as Methodological Tools in Qualitative Inquiry
Authors: Myers W. Benjamin , Alexander Bryant Keith
Published: April 2020

In his germinal essay, “Of Caravans and Carnivals: Performance Studies in Motion” Dwight Conquergood (1995) uses the compelling metaphor of a caravan to describe performance studies; a “commitment to praxis, to multiple ways of knowing that engage embodied experience with critical reflection … a caravan: a heterogeneous ensemble of ideas and methods on the move” (pp. 139–140). This expanded discussion on the relation between performance and metaphor first presented at the 2009 Qualitative Inquiry Congress asked each of the original participants to develop new metaphors for performance that open up an aspect or understanding of performance that is underdeveloped, underutilized or untapped. Key questions were explored in discussion: How are these metaphors provocative and what to they provoke? How do metaphors work in understanding performance in performance studies? What is the critical service these metaphors make in/as qualitative inquiry? How do or can these metaphors be made to work for social justice? Whose interests are served by particular metaphorical constructions? This Special Issue includes a section entitled “New Metaphors for Performance” which included the original metaphors offered by Ronald Pelias, David Hanley-Tejada, W. Benjamin Myers, Season Ellison, Lesa Lockford, Shauna MacDonald, D. Soyini Madison, and Della Pollock. The second section entitled, “Listeners/Respondents” includes generative autobiographical metaphors, from key audience members as their experiences/ responses to and in dialogue with the originating metaphors presented in the panel (Christopher N. Poulos, John T. Warren, Nicole Defenbaugh, Tami Spry, Karin Schlücker, Claudio Moreira, and Hari Stephen Kumar).
Fat Bodies, Qualitative Research and the Spirit of Participatory Action Research
Authors: Meleo-Erwin Zoë C.
Published: April 2020

Participatory Action Research (PAR) may be conceived of as a politic or an epistemology rather than a rigid methodology. If this is the case, how can PAR inform other qualitative methodologies? How can qualitative researchers adopt the spirit of PAR without doing PAR work itself? In this work, I seek to explore these questions by reviewing how PAR can guide my future dissertation work on the productive effects of the obesity epidemic. I examine how I might base my research in the ethics and politics of social justice and yet also remain open to and accountable for the ways in which my choice of methods reflects what can be seen as the colonizing approach of traditional social science.
PAR Method
Authors: Billies Michelle
Published: April 2020

The work of the Welfare Warriors Research Collaborative (WWRC), a participatory action research (PAR) project that looks at how low income lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and gender nonconforming (LG-BTGNC) people survive and resist violence and discrimination in New York City, raises the question of what it means to make conscientization, or critical consciousness, a core feature of PAR. Guishard's (2009) reconceptualization of conscientization as “moments of consciousness” provides a new way of looking at what seemed to be missing from WWRC's process and analysis. According to Guishard, rather than a singular awakening, critical consciousness emerges continually through interactions with others and the social context. Analysis of the WWRC's process demonstrates that PAR researchers doing “PAR deep” (Fine, 2008)—research in which community members share in all aspects of design, method, analysis and product development—should have an agenda for developing critical consciousness, just as they would have agendas for participation, for action, and for research.
Reflections on a Politics of Research for the Right to the City
Authors: Udvarhelyi Éva Tessza
Published: April 2020

The idea of the “right to the city” (Lefebvre 2003), based on the understanding of the ‘urban’ as a unique form of human existence, has become a popular framework both for thinking about social justice in a specifically urban context and as a profound and at the same time flexible framework for urban grassroots organizing. Through theoretical exploration and practical examples, the aim of this paper is to contribute to the formation of a politics of research and knowledge production that suits the concept and practice of the right to the city. Based on an expansion of the “right to research” as developed by Arjun Appadurai (2006) and heavily influenced by the theory and practice of Participatory Action Research, the overall argument of this paper is that the right to research has to be acknowledged as an inevitable component of any struggle for the right to the city.