The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI2007) :
Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Evidence (http://www.qi2007.org)
The Third International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place at
the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, from May 2-5, 2007. The theme
of the Congress, building on Jan Morse, is "Qualitative Inquiry and the
Politics of Evidence." Participants will explore the politics of evidence
and truth and what these terms mean for qualitative inquiry in this new
century. If we as qualitative researchers do not define these terms for
ourselves, someone else will.
Questions to be considered include: In qualitative inquiry, What is truth?
What is evidence? How is evidence evaluated? Can evidence be manipulated? "
How can qualitative research inform the policy-making process? How is
qualitative evidence represented, discounted, or judged to be unacceptable?
What is a fact? What is true, or false, or evidence is determined by
socially defined criteria. Different discourses--law, medicine, history,
cultural, or performance studies--- define qualitative evidence
differently.
The Congress will consider the influence of scientifically based research
(SBR) models on qualitative inquiry. These models are becoming quite
influential in other nations (U.K., South Africa, Australia). The Congress
will also consider what evidence and truth mean under the terms of
postpositivism, poststructualism, indigenous, democratic, postcolonial,
queer, feminist, performative, and participatory models of inquiry.
Participants will explore new ways of evaluating and using qualitative
evidence in social policy arenas. They will examine how new understandings
of qualitative evidence can advance the goals of social justice and
progressive politics.
Session Themes will include, but not be confined to, rethinking such terms
and topics as: mix-methods, voice, authenticity, lived experience, the
politics of evidence, evidence-based research, research design, data,
empirical material, epistemology, triangulation, validity, reliability,
coding, sampling, induction, deduction, naturalism, generalizability,
science, analysis, interpretation, rules of inference, models of quality,
case-based, collaborative, mixed and multi-method approaches, narrative and
performative criteria of evaluation, criteriology, pragmatism, interpretive
rigor, constructivist criteria, action-based criteria,
transformative-emancipatory criteria, warrantability, writing as
interpretation, trustworthiness, collaborative action research, auto- and
performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, coloring epistemology, colonial
and post-colonial epistemologies, critical performance narratives, critical
pedagogy, democratic methodologies, discourse, ethnodrama, epistemology,
social justice criteria, the ethics of evidence, ethics and IRBs, womanist
inquiry, critical focus groups, funding qualitative health care research,
new rules of evidence for grounded theory, advocacy as method, qualitative
evaluation inquiry, new technologies of evidence and inference.
We invite your submission of paper, poster and session proposals.
Submissions will be accepted online only from October 1 until December 1
2006. Conference and workshop registration will begin December 1, 2006. To
learn more about the Third International Congress and how to participate,
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