Qualitative Inquiry and Human Rights

Qualitative researchers are increasingly being called upon to become human rights advocates, to help individuals and communities honor the sanctity of life, and to promote the core values of privacy, justice, freedom, peace, and human dignity. In this volume of plenary papers from the Fifth International of Qualitative Inquiry in 2009, leading qualitative researchers show the various dimensions of the human rights work being done by scholar/activists in the social sciences, education, health care, social services, cultural studies, and other fields. Introduction, Norman K. Denzin, Michael D. Giardina; Theory; Chapter 1 Theories for a Global Ethics, Clifford G. Christians; Chapter 2 Human Rights Theory, A. Belden Fields; Chapter 3 Human Vulnerabilities, Svend Brinkmann; Chapter 4 Human Rights, Social Justice, and Qualitative Research, Julianne Cheek; Chapter 5 Affirming Human Dignity in Qualitative Inquiry, Frederick Erickson; Method; Chapter 6 In the Name of Human Rights, Antjie Krog; Chapter 7 Autoethnography and Queer Theory, Stacy Holman Jones, Tony E. Adams; Chapter 8 Some Ethical Considerations in Preparing Students for Performative Autoethnography, Tami Spry; Politics; Chapter 9 This Is Our Moment (So) Yes We Can, Cynthia B. Dillard; Chapter 10 Triangulation of Micro-Perspectives on Juvenile Homelessness, Health, and Human Rights, Uwe Flick; Chapter 11 Poverty and Social Exclusion, Niederer Elisabeth, Winter Rainer; Chapter 12 Human Rights and Qualitative Health Inquiry, Geneviève Rail, Stuart J. Murray, Holmes Dave; coda Coda, Carolyn Ellis, Laurel Richardson, Mary Gergen, Kenneth Gergen, Norman K. Denzin, Arthur P. Bochner;