Description: New Directions for Theorizing in Qualitative Inquiry consists of thematic edited volumes that help us understand how to put qualitative inquiry into practice. The chapters in each volume, from established and emerging scholars, represent new directions for incorporating theory into justice-oriented qualitative research. The series is designed to reach a wide audience of scholars and students in the humanities and social sciences. The series aims to bring about experimental ways of reading lives so as to implement radical social change. The present volume takes arts-based research as its focus, emphasizing how these can be used to foster social justice.
Brief description: Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Review Quotes: "Good books generate a dialogue. I identified two underlying themes in this book as a basis for a discussion: (a) the roles of the arts in (Arts-Based Research), from intensified narrative to expressing the ineffable, and (b) the intimate, powerful connections between the arts and ethics. Indeed, this grappling has been central to qualitative texts from early ethnographic and phenomenological research. I applaud the editors and authors for initiating - with aesthetic and ethical commitment - a timely, engaging conversation on such crucial issues." (Read full review HERE.)--Reviewed by Liora Bresler for Teachers College Record, ID No. 23495