Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Introduction: the discipline and practice of qualitative resarch / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Locating the field -- Reform of the social sciences, and of universities through action research / Davydd J. Greenwood and Morten Levin -- Compositional studies, in two parts: critical theorizing and analysis of social (in)justice / Michelle Fine and Lois Weis -- On tricky ground: researching the native in the age of uncertainty / Linda Tuhiwai Smith -- Freeing ourselves from neocolonial domination in research: a Kaupapa Maori approach to creating knowledge / Russell Bishop -- Ethics and politics in qualitative research / Clifford G. Christians -- Institutional review boards and methodological conservatism: the challenge to and from phenomenological paradigms / Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Paradigms and perspectives in contention -- Paradigmatic controversies, contradictions, and emerging confluences / Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Critical ethnography: the politics of collaboration / Douglas Foley and Angela Valenzuela -- Early millennial feminist qualitative research: challenges and contours / Virginia Olesen -- The moral activist role of critical race theory's scholarship / Gloria Ladson-Billings and Jamel Donnor -- Rethinking critical theory and qualitative research / Joe L. Kincheloe and Peter McLaren -- Methodologies for cultural studies: an integrative approach / Paula Saukko -- Critical humaniism and queer theory: living with the tensions / Ken Plummer -- The future of qualitative research -- Afterthought: on writing; on writing sociology / Zygmunt Bauman -- Refunctioning ethnography: the challenge of an anthropology of the contemporary / Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus -- Epilogue: the eighth and ninth moments?-Qualitative research in/and the fractured future / Yvonna S. Lincoln and Norman K. Denzin -- Reader's guide -- Glossary -- Suggested readings -- Author index -- Subject index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.