Voice in qualitative inquiry: challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research

Jackson, Alecia Y. and Mazzei, Lisa A. (2009) Voice in qualitative inquiry: challenging conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions in qualitative research. Routledge. ISBN 0415442214

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Abstract

Voice in Qualitative Inquiry is a critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. A select group of contributors focus collectively on the question, "What does it mean to work the limits of voice?" from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions, and the result is an innovative challenge to traditional notions of voice. The thought-provoking book will shift qualitative inquiry away from uproblematically engaging in practices and interpretations that limit what "counts" as voice and therefore data. The loss and betrayal of comfort and authority when qualitative researchers work the limits of voice will lead to new disruptions and irruptions in making meaning from data and, in turn, will add inventive and critical dialogue to the conversation about voice in qualitative inquiry.