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.