Description:
This volume analyzes the challenges presented to carrying out qualitative inquiry by the neoliberalization of education, publishing and government.
Review Quotes:
Qualitative Inquiry in Neoliberal Times is an extremely important and necessary book in our current post-anthropocentric neoliberal condition, a circumstance in which a rhizomatic, immanent capitalism has changed everything. To quote Harry Torrance, author of chapter 5, "neo-liberalism already operates with a more sophisticated theory of change than empirical social science." The multiplicities, diversities, and unthought possibilities embedded within qualitative research serve as points from/through which this all invasive performance can hopefully be countered and challenged.
Gaile S. Cannella, Independent Critical Qualitative Research and Policy Studies Scholar and Research Professor at Arizona State University
Market based values permeate audit culture with its performance metrics that increasingly infiltrate higher education. This collection might help us negotiate what is already here with the threat of more to come if we recognize the stakes: the place of the university in the politics of knowledge and the forms of governmentality we will abide. We incalculable subjects have much work to do.
Patti Lather, Professor Emerita, Ohio State University. Author of (Post)Critical Methodologies: The Science Possible After the Critiques (Routledge, 2017)