{"id":280,"date":"2010-06-13T14:14:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-13T14:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/edtechandtesol.info\/phd\/?p=280"},"modified":"2015-03-25T15:20:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T15:20:11","slug":"qi-revisited-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/?p=280","title":{"rendered":"QI Revisited"},"content":{"rendered":"

To see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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It can be a mistake to go back\u2026Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009)<\/a> at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice on a practical rather than exclusively theoretical level, as well as by the friendships I made there. The accessibility of iconic figures such as Norman Denzin<\/a>, Ken Gergen <\/a>and Carolyn Ellis was thrilling, and their active interest in the work of others, regardless of their status (or lack thereof!) was genuinely inspiring. Inclusivity is not just a concept at QI, but a lived experience\u2026<\/p>\n

This year then,\u00a0when my paper for QI 2010 <\/a>was accepted, I was delighted but also a little concerned that the reality of this congress couldn\u2019t possibly live up to my memories of the last. So it was immediately reassuring upon arrival to find myself sharing a taxi with Laurel Richardson <\/a>and to\u00a0see \u2018Norm\u2019 in his trademark shorts and sandals\u00a0in the Registration Hall, welcoming new faces and chatting with old\u00a0hands. Friendships made last year were renewed, the circle of familiar faces rapidly expanded and I was once again on first name terms with individuals whose work has had a profound influence on my own (both shaping and troubling it), and made me feel like this was a community to which it was worth belonging. \u00a0Apart from offering a wide range of international and interdisciplinary papers, and\u00a0the usual galaxy of \u2019super\u2019 scholars, the congress\u00a0created the space\u00a0to engage\u00a0meaningfully\u00a0with everybody from nursing practitioners to critical race theorists<\/a>, autoethnographers<\/a> to postcolonial scholars\u00a0and to find resonances with their work, sharing ideas, references and even discover opportunities for future collaboration.<\/p>\n

It was (and is)\u00a0an honour to hear individuals like Patti Lather<\/a>, Yvonna Lincoln <\/a>and\u00a0Harry Wolcott\u00a0speak, if so mild a term can be used for such\u00a0rousing rhetoric! There was however, very much the sense in some of the plenary sessions that the old guard was making preparations to\u00a0pass on\u00a0the\u00a0torch and the responsibility\u00a0for socially responsible and activist scholarship to us young<\/span> middle-aged turks, at a time when\u00a0the need for creative and critical responses to the challenges that face us\u00a0has never been greater. I hope that in some small way my own emancipatory research will contribute to keeping that flame alive.<\/p>\n

Participating in QI 2010 <\/a>left me feeling engaged and enthused, excited anew by the potential to make a meaningful contribution to scholarship and social justice, and wanting to take on additional responsibilities at QI 2011!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

To see the paper I gave at QI 2010, click here.   It can be a mistake to go back\u2026Last year I attended the Fifth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (QI 2009) at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign and was refreshed, energised and motivated by the genuine inclusivity of the conference and the engagement with issues of social justice […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":95,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[92,214,216,218,240],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p865eh-4w","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/95"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7401,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions\/7401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lantern.humanities.manchester.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}