Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Introduction: the discipline and practice of qualitative resarch / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Methods of collecting and analyzing empirical materials -- Narrative inquiry: multiple lenses, approaches, voices / Susan E. Chase -- Arts-based inquiry: performing revolutionary pedagogy / Susan Finley -- The interview: from neutral stance to political involvement / Andrea Fontana and James H. Frey -- Recontextualizing observation: ethnography, pedagogy, and the prospects for a progresive political agenda / Michael V. Angrosino -- What's new visually? / Douglas Harper -- Autoethnography: making the personal political / Stacy Holman Jones -- The methods, politics, and ethics of representation in online ethnography / Annette N. Markham -- Analytic perspectives / Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont -- Foucault's methodologies: archeaology and genealogy / James Joseph Scheurich and Kathryn Bell McKenzie -- Analyzing talk and text / Anssi Perkyl -- Focus groups: strategic articulations of pedagogy, politics, and inquiry / George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis -- The art and practices of interpretation, evaluation, and presentation -- Relativism, criteria, and politics / John K. Smith and Phil Hodkinson -- Emancipatory discourses and the ethics and politics of interpretation / Norman K. Denzin -- Writing: a method of inquiry / Laurel Richardson and Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre -- Poetics for a planet: discourse on some problems of being-in-place / Ivan Brady -- Cultural poesis: the generativity of emergent things / Kathleen Stewart -- "Aria in time of war": investigative poetry and the politics of witnessing / Stephen J. Hartnett and Jeremy D. Engels -- Qualitative evaluation and changing social policy / Ernest R. House -- Reader's guide -- Glossary -- Suggested readings -- Author index -- Subject index -- About the editors -- About the contributors.