Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction : the discipline and practice of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials -- Narrative inquiry : still a field in the making / Susan E. Chase -- Critical arts-based inquiry the pedagogy and performance of a radical ethical aesthetic / Susan Finley -- Oral history / Linda Shopes -- Observations on observation : continuities and challenges / Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg -- Visual methodology : towards a more seeing research / Jon D. Prosser -- Performative autoethnography : critical embodiments and possibilities / Tami Spry -- The methods, politics, and ethics of representation in online ethnography / Sarah Gaston -- Analyzing talk and text / Anssi Perkyl and Johanna Ruusuvuori -- Focus groups : contingent articulations of pedagogy, politics, and inquiry / George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis -- The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and presentation -- Qualitative research, science and government : evidence, criteria, policy and politics / Harry Torrance -- Reflections on interpretive adequacy in qualitative research / David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson -- Analysis and representation across the continuum / Laura L. Ellingson -- Post qualitative research: the critique and the coming after / Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre -- Qualitative research and technology: in the midst of a revolution / Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio -- The elephant in the living room, or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence / Norman K. Denzin -- Writing into position : strategies for composition and evaluation / Ronald J. Pelias -- Evaluation as a relationally responsible practice / Tineke Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven -- Author index -- Subject index.