Introduction: the discipline and practice of qualitative research / Locating the field -- Revitalizing universities by reinventing the social sciences: Bildung and action research / A history of qualitative inquiry in social and educational research / Ethics and politics in qualitative research / Ethics, research regulations, and critical social science / Paradigms and perspectives in contention -- Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences, revisited / Feminist qualitative research in the millennium's first decade: developments, challenges, prospects / The sacred and spiritual nature of endarkened transnational feminist praxis in qualitative research / Critical pedagogy, and qualitative research: moving to the bricolage / Cultural studies: performative imperatives and bodily articulations / Critical humanism and queer theory: living with the tensions: postscript 2010 to living with the contradictions / Asian epistemologies and contemporary social psychological research

Disability communities: transformative research for social justice / Strategies of inquiry -- The politics and practices of funding qualitative inquiry: messages about messages about messages / Controversies in mixed methods research / Mixed methods research: contemporary issues in an emerging field / Case study / Performance ethnography / Braiding narrative ethnography with memoir and creative nonfiction / The constructionist analytics of interpretive practice / Grounded theory methods in social justice research / In the name of human rights: I say (how) you (should) speak (before I listen) / Jazz and the banyan tree: roots and riffs on participatory action research / What Is qualitative health research? / Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials -- Narrative inquiry: still a field in the making / Critical arts-based inquiry: the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic / Oral history / Observations on observation: continuities and challenges / Visual methodology: toward a more seeing research

Performative autoethnography: critical embodiments and possibilities / The methods, politics, and ethics of representation in online ethnography / Analyzing talk and text / Focus groups: contingent articulations of pedagogy, politics, and inquiry / The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and representation -- Qualitative research, science and government: evidence, criteria, policy and politics / Reflections on interpretive adequacy in qualitative research / Analysis and representation across the continuum / Post qualitative research: the critique and the coming after / Qualitative research and technology: in the midst of a revolution / The politics of evidence / Writing into position: strategies for composition and evaluation / Evaluation as a relationally responsible practice / The future of qualitative research -- Qualitative futures: where we might go from where we've been / Teaching qualitative research / Epilogue: toward a "refunctioned ethnography"