{"title":"Unraveling Interior and Exterior Circumstances","authors":"Tanetha Grosland","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.1.69","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.1.69","url":null,"abstract":"The role of emotions in leadership and policy research is often ignored, indicating the need for an investigation of how researchers’ emotions and the interpretation of emotion in research impact the research process itself. Although at times contradictory and controversial, emotion is the one terrain that unites us in personhood; yet how emotions are understood is said to be defined and controlled by politics. Inspired by critical theories, especially those concerning emotion, this essay aims to theoretically interrogate missed emotion cues when conducting emotional research. This investigation grew out of two research stories of antiracist pedagogy that are laden with emotions. Contemporary observations indicate that the experience of researching emotions (un)consciously alters a researcher’s emotions and thus radically impacts how one ultimately researches emotion. This suggests that emotions in leadership research on political subjects have serious and profound impacts on researchers in ways that are often misunderstood. Concluding remarks note the significant role that research guided by critical theory plays in understanding how scholars’ emotions impact their leadership and policy research on political subjects.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"80 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76005459","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Editor’s Introduction","authors":"Kakali Bhattacharya","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1","url":null,"abstract":"Introduction| September 01 2023 Editor’s Introduction: Fill Up Your Cup to Do the Work Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya is an award-winning professor at the University of Florida housed in the Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program. Substantively, she explores transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. Her work has made spaces in interdisciplinary de/colonizing work and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as gateways for cultivating depth, integrity, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights.She is the 2022 winner of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) inaugural Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (SIG). She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. kakalibh@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar kakalibh@gmail.com Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2023) 12 (3): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kakali Bhattacharya; Editor’s Introduction: Fill Up Your Cup to Do the Work. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 September 2023; 12 (3): 1–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.3.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research Search As I write this editorial introduction, I am experiencing pride and a heavy heart simultaneously. My pride comes from hosting the brilliant contributions of authors in this issue. To be able to host such transformative work that created growth and epiphanic moments for the authors, which has the potential of being a breakthrough force for so many, is indeed a reason to be proud and grateful. Yet, just days ago, Ajike Owens, a Black woman and a mother, was brutally shot by a white woman in Ocala, Florida, 30 minutes away from where I live with my partner and two dogs. The white woman, Susan Lorincz, assaulted Owens’s children by throwing their own iPad that she had confiscated illegally. Ajike, with her 9-year-old child, went to confront her soon-to-be murderer for hurting her children. Susan Lorincz shot her from behind her metal apartment doors. I am shaken by the trauma... You do not currently have a","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134889646","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Haunted Classroom","authors":"Ariel Gratch","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.4","url":null,"abstract":"Through critical autoethnography and personal narrative, this essay traces the academic and professional path of a first-generation student who grew up in an abusive household. The metaphor of “haunting” is used to explain the long-term psychosocial effects of intimate abuse. The author posits that teaching activities that acknowledge the ghosts of the past can help students recognize within themselves and others their own complex personhood. By approaching the classroom through a lens of haunting, the teacher can maintain a critical distance to their students that may help teachers better address student needs.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89102665","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Facing Post-Truth Conspiracies in the Classroom","authors":"Tanja Burkhard","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.24","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.24","url":null,"abstract":"This article employs Black feminist autoethnographic methods (Griffin, 2012; Burkhard, 2020) to examine a series of racialized, gendered, and xenophobic incidents in an undergraduate class focused on equity and diversity, in which the author was the instructor after the summer of 2020—now often referred to as the “Summer of Racial Reckoning.” The aforementioned incidents generated severe discomfort in the classroom and revolved around the interactions between a student who is a member of the radical far-right QAnon movement and the instructor, a Black immigrant woman. Drawing on journal entries, emails, and other artifacts, this article examines the layers of discomfort that arose in the class due to the incompatibility of ideologies that emerged from the instructor’s culturally sustaining pedagogical approaches (Paris & Alim, 2014; Wong & Burkhard, 2021) and the politicized rhetoric related to race, (im)migration, and child welfare promoted within particular circles of the QAnon movement. These incompatible ideologies called into question what it means to teach for justice and “to create an open learning community” (hooks, 1994, p. 8) on the one hand, and on the other hand, what it means for instructors of color to work through layers of violence, fear, and discomfort for themselves and for students of color within predominantly white classrooms.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"108 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86996972","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Dill, Shavaun S. Sutton, Emily S. Cowan, Arielsela Holdbrook-Smith
{"title":"Oh, We Got Beef?!","authors":"L. Dill, Shavaun S. Sutton, Emily S. Cowan, Arielsela Holdbrook-Smith","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.40","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.40","url":null,"abstract":"There is a bevy of scholarship that suggests that research can be strengthened through community–academic partnerships and that such partnerships are inherently mutually beneficial. However, there are competing cultures of community-based organizations and academic institutions, oftentimes with different stakes, timelines, constituents, and sites of knowledge making and knowledge production. The COVID-19 pandemic and its “afterlives” made hyper-visible the miscommunications, misunderstandings, and misalignment of a grant-funded community partnership in which we were engaged. In this article, we employ collaborative autoethnographic and poetic inquiry approaches to theorize “beef”—a Black cultural understanding of mis/understandings, problems, arguments, fights, and so on. While we will work toward offering our reflections in this piece for our future commitments to the field as “community-accountable scholars,” we also center a transparency and vulnerability about our dis/comfort and about the actual ruptures that did and can happen in partnerships.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74607585","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"“That’s Why They Call It Window Pain”","authors":"S. Shelton, S. Melchior","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.6","url":null,"abstract":"We are both first-generation women PhDs who survived traumatic, abusive childhoods, and found ourselves caretakers of those who once cared for us, in the height of COVID-19 lockdowns. The pandemic complicated our responsibilities in un/comfortable and un/expected ways, as care of parents and academic positions, all differently fragile, required negotiating dis/connections between academia and family, all while the virus and uncertainty hung thick in the air. This article is written as a collaborative travelogue with personal pictures and narratives, to emphasize our traversing back and forth between these worlds, and often pausing on our journeys to rest, to worry, to cry, and to celebrate, in the in-between spaces. Gloria Anzaldúa’s (2000; Anzaldúa & Keating, 2002) discussions of liminalities as uncomfortable and sometimes desirable and sometimes intentional guide our journeys, as does Sara Ahmed’s (2017) emphasis on the power to stretch spaces of discomfort to find pleasure and comfort in traveling through/settling into liminal spaces.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91102720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Re/Conceptualizing In/Visibility","authors":"L. Cain","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.77","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.77","url":null,"abstract":"In this article, I explore the dualism of visible–invisible (henceforth referred to as in/visibility) as a spectrum while utilizing autoethnographic accounts to contextualize my personal experiences traveling through liminal identity spaces. I embrace my in/visible identities as a queer woman in a society entrenched in heteronormativity, a disabled individual whose disability is not always visible, and an assistant professor who carefully navigated her academic career beginning as a non-tenure-track faculty member. Specifically, I explore the various considerations necessary in choosing to disclose (or not disclose) marginalized identities as navigating the gray space between visible and not and how these actions align with the spectrum of dis/comfort. I traverse topics such as how in/visibility can be harmful and powerful, what the ethical considerations are in crossing the border into in/visibility, and finally, how the act of border crossing via self-disclosure, along with engaging in perceived deficits, may at times be strategic. My work is primarily influenced by Anzaldúa’s notions of border crossing, nepantla, and New Mestizas.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"50 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75812189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Queering Abuelita","authors":"D. McCarthy","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.27","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.27","url":null,"abstract":"This essay considers an alternative form of reconciliation with my abuelita who passed away unexpectedly from a stroke in 2021. Beginning with her career as a professional singer refuting gender roles in Spain, I consider the trajectory of her life that led to her adulthood as a conservative Jehovah’s Witness. Through speculative memory work and queer futurity, this essay queers abuelita in a way that reimagines her life as a musician, performer, and grandmother. I offer this as an example of how queer individuals negotiate and address the contradictions of reconciliation and queerness on their own terms.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"114 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80757470","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Becoming","authors":"Jersey Cosantino","doi":"10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.42","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.4.42","url":null,"abstract":"The Becoming is a Mad trans (re)telling of Ray Bradbury’s 1951 short story “The Pedestrian.” Using oral history interviews conducted with individuals identifying within the vast spectrum of Madness, neurodivergence, transness, and gender non-conformity, I seek to bring to life the themes, stories, and reflections of Mad trans becoming within the evocative setting of Bradbury’s story. Engaging with ghosts and hauntings as allegory, allusion, and illusion, I welcome readers to embark on a journey of becoming that is Maddeningly surreal and transgressively illusive, calling forth coming-to-know experiences that defy liminal boundaries between time, space, and place; past, present, and future.","PeriodicalId":36478,"journal":{"name":"Departures in Critical Qualitative Research","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80584849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}