{"title":"FOR BETTER OR WORSE POEMS","authors":"Laurel Richardson","doi":"10.1177/19408447231158068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231158068","url":null,"abstract":"My husband, Ernest Lockridge, died on November 15, 2020. During the year after his death, I completed a book, The Story of a Marriage through Dementia and Beyond: Love in a Whirlwind (Routledge). The title is inaccurate. The Story, actually, begins forty-years into my marriage. It was then that my husband’s “mild cognitive impairment” progressed into the hell of Lewy Body Dementia, and I struggled not to descend into a hell of my own. As has always been my wont when faced with crises, I wrote. And wrote. And wrote. Most of the book I wrote while Ernest was alive and with his permission. I used my ethnographic and auto-ethnographic skills to observe, listen and record our experiences. I was not writing in a journal; I was writing ethnographically---showing, not judging, describing not emoting. In retrospect, I would say, I cast myself into the role of participant-observer. In preparing the book for publication in The Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives series, I used ethnographic criteria. Is my prose clear? Evocative? Is there verisimilitude? Am I helping people understand their world? Will my text hurt anyone, and, if so, are their identities hidden? Will my writing reach those who need to read it? Am I proud of this book? The answers to all those questions were yeses.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"203 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44219548","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":"An Ode to Humans From The Mouth of Coal","authors":"John Christopher Haddox","doi":"10.1177/19408447231169062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231169062","url":null,"abstract":"Appalachia and coal have a historically challenging relationship with each other. Coal has been the backbone of many Appalachian economies. Along with the economic benefits of coal have come many negative impacts. Political campaigns, from local to federal, have won and lost based on their positions and ties to coal. For a variety of reasons, the coal industry in Appalachia, especially in the Appalachian state of West Virginia, is declining, and will continue to decline, despite the rhetoric from those whose livelihoods—daily and politically—depend on coal. In this paper the author places himself in the black shoes of coal and offers a lyrical and musical response from coal itself to the rhetoric around the future of coal that rang loudly in his hometown of Logan, West Virginia during the 2016 presidential campaign.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"176 - 189"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46639800","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":"For Better or Worse: A Critical Look at Marriage in Laurel Richardson’s Poetry","authors":"Sandra L. Faulkner","doi":"10.1177/19408447231169065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231169065","url":null,"abstract":"The following essay is a response to Laurel Richardson’s collection of poems about marriage titled For Better or Worse. Reading the poems made the author consider how she talks, thinks, and teaches about marriage as a scholar who studies close relationships and how Richardson’s poems can instruct students and others about the ideals, critiques, and realities of marriage. The author presents assignments and class discussions about marriage in two family communication and six relational communication courses she taught from a Critical Interpersonal and Family Communication (CIFC) perspective in 2020–2022 by showing the critical work and reflection that students did that ultimately reinforced dominant ideas about marriage in the US. The author includes critical reflections on Laurel Richardson’s marriage poems for context and contrast.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46209680","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":"What’s Found in Loss","authors":"Mary E. Weems","doi":"10.1177/19408447231158082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231158082","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"284 - 285"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44462592","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":"One Love, This Time","authors":"Christopher N. Poulos","doi":"10.1177/19408447231158085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447231158085","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"278 - 283"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45103928","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":"Spin and Surrender: Letting go as a Mode of Resistance","authors":"Fiona Murray","doi":"10.1177/19408447221149488","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447221149488","url":null,"abstract":"During spin class, the author of this paper thinks into her resistance to letting go of her marriage. She finds herself thinking about a politics of surrender that is not necessarily the opposite of resistance but rather a necessary precondition to a particular quality of resistance that has the potential to lead to a more expansive and inclusive activism. As she looks around the class, and falls into rhythm with those around her, she realized that this inclusive activism could lead perhaps to a more intimate solidarity.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"15 1","pages":"465 - 469"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45578016","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":"Everything About Children, Death, and Ethics All at Once","authors":"Zhaoxi Zheng","doi":"10.1177/19408447221149491","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447221149491","url":null,"abstract":"Whilst children’s competency is evident through their everyday socio-material encounters, dominant discourses continue to depict children as incompetent ‘human becomings’, shielding them from ‘sensitive’ matters (e.g., death). Originating from adult-centric traditions, this humanist understanding prioritises binary oppositions (e.g., life/death, body/mind, and child/adult). Reinforced by neoliberal academic expectations, such a developmentalist assumption is further appropriated and holds true as ‘gold standard’ when examining children and childhood, producing injustices against children. In response to critical post-human calls to disrupt child-adult binaries, I use post-qualitative inquiry to showcase the epistemological-ethical-emotional entanglement within a research project investigating children’s children’s encounters with death. Specifically, by combining poetry and drawing to challenge increasingly homogenous academic writing and traditionally clean-cut research paradigms, this work playfully highlights that children face power injustices in contemporary social life and their rights to participation in complex social realities (e.g., death) matter.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"163 - 175"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42053759","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":"Centering Place in Ethnographies of “Latinx” Schooling: The Utility of a Multi-Sited Place Project for Revealing Emplaced Narratives","authors":"Theresa Burruel Stone","doi":"10.1177/19408447211068195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447211068195","url":null,"abstract":"This paper argues for a methodological approach, a multi-sited place project, to center place within ethnographies of schooling and facilitate deeper understandings of socialization into settler relations stemming from and supporting the white settler nation-state. This approach draws upon language socialization and critical place inquiry, tracing settler colonial narratives between schools and local history sites such as California missions, historic city walking tours, and township festivals. The multi-sited place project reveals emplaced narratives, stories that socialize people to particular relations and logics to and within specific places, connecting histories and identities to a particular place in the present, and in the process, shaping possibilities of who people can be in the future. Compelling this approach is a desire for greater understandings of incompatibilities within racialized peoples’ work towards liberation on Indigenous lands that are not our own. Its purpose is to bring together approaches for studies of schooling and place in ways that challenge rather than accept settler futures. A multi-sited place project carried out on unceded Ohlone territory illustrates the approach, advancing understandings of how “Latinx” youth and families, primarily of Mexican origin, were socialized into Californian settler histories and identities via a family day at a historic rancho.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"15 1","pages":"399 - 425"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41408453","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":"Black is the Night: Masking and Unmasking, Social Science Research, and What a Song Might Bring","authors":"K. Douglas","doi":"10.1177/19408447221131027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447221131027","url":null,"abstract":"An important aspect of commissioned research is how we negotiate the distance that remains unbridged between a researcher and her participants. Arthur Frank, referencing Emmanuel Levinas asks, “Do I recognise what the other is having to hold together, to carry on at all, and his or her fear of life coming apart.” He then asks us to consider what role, or what part “the other” casts us in, in the unfolding drama of their life. I like the language Frank and Levinas use as they move into the realm of performance, where we can be cast in a role, and perhaps adopt a mask to work through these types of issues.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"39 - 49"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49536013","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":"What Becomes Possible When “Y/Our Slip is Showin?”: Practicing Reflexivity to Preserve Spirit","authors":"Dominique C. Hill","doi":"10.1177/19408447221131020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/19408447221131020","url":null,"abstract":"What pains and possibilities reside behind and emerge from mask wearing? This performative essay uses the Black idiom, “your slip is showin’” to ruminate upon masks, masking, mobilizing spirit, and their symbiotic possibilities. In Black vernacular, the metaphor of a showin’ slip, is an error, an unintended reveal. An undergarment believed to conceal what lies beneath clothing, it offers a boundary, usually between stockings and a skirt or dress. A slip ensures opacity. Organized around this metaphor, this essay presents four auto/ethnographic moments, from a larger emergent auto/performance text “When Crisis and Sprit Meet Inside a Seasoned Grl” to explore dialogics between physical masking, spiritual uncovering, and showin’ of the slip. Ultimately, this essay asserts the showin’ slip as a productive transgression for meditating upon and enlivening our interpersonal interactions during crisis.","PeriodicalId":90874,"journal":{"name":"International review of qualitative research : IRQR","volume":"16 1","pages":"83 - 89"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43062836","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}