Morning Session 8:30 AM -11:30 AM

1. D. Soyini Madison

Workshop Title: Radical Performance, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights

    What is the Radical in radical performance? How do neoliberal policies affect human rights? How does the "commodification of everything" lead to human atrocities? What is a dramaturgy of public dissent? In the struggle for human rights - whether in the form of collective opposition or individual resistance - radical performance confronts the underpinnings and the consequences of power regimes, hegemonic controls, and economic global restructuring that are responsible for myriad forms of human suffering. This workshop will explore how oppositional performance labors to expose, trouble, and break the covert and overt links between human rights and political economy. It will respond to key controversies and debates surrounding causation of human rights violations: acts by the "unenlightened" or the consequences of dire poverty; local greed or global capitalism; the violence of traditional dogma or the dehumanization of secular and individualist modernity. We will examine how transnational activism and local acts take the form of oppositional or alternative performances in order to build social movements and global networks.

2.Maggie MacLure, Rachel Holmes and Liz Jones

Workshop Title: Countering "the orthopedics of affect": using Deleuze to open up inquiry

The workshop will mobilise Deleuze's concept of affect, in order to engage with aspects of encounters that resist analysis. As unstructured, 'prepersonal intensity' (Massumi), affect precedes and exceeds language, subjectivity and the formation of emotions. Yet, because affect registers on bodies as well as minds, it is intimately, if perplexingly, social. The workshop will put affect to work a way of troubling the routine formation and management of emotions and perceptions in educational and research settings. We call these routinised productions "orthopedic" - that is, involving the fixing of affects into the proper forms (ortho-) required of education or child-rearing (-paideia). While affect must inevitably be 'captured' - ie assume form and quality as emotions, perceptions or cognitions - we argue that there is a need to intervene in the repetitious production of a restricted range of emotions and perceptions in educational and research work, and to glimpse that which exceeds capture, and therefore holds the potential to open onto the new.
The workshop will be organised around a collection of 'unsettling' data fragments and examples drawn from recent research projects. These register the workings of affect - of sensations and intensities that evade capture yet still 'touch' those involved.
They include:
(a) perplexing or uncanny resonances in research interviews;
(b) the embodied sociality of young men involved in a health research project, and its clandestine resistance to the demand for empathy;
(c) linguistic prejudice and the perpetual renewal of physical revulsion towards 'nonstandard' speech;
(d) the orthopedics of affect in early years education;
(e) anxieties about touching children.
Workshop participants will be invited to bring their own examples or recollections of 'unsettling' moments in their own research.

3. Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis

Workshop Title: The Critical Use of Focus Groups

    In this workshop, we will explore focus groups as productive sites for developing rich understandings of social phenomena, for engaging in pedagogy and reflection, and for doing political work. These related activities are all central to conducting research in what Denzin and Lincoln have called the eighth moment of qualitative inquiry.

     Basically, focus groups are collective conversations or group interviews. They can be small or large, directed or non-directed. Focus groups have been used for a wide range of purposes over the past century or so. The U.S. military (e.g., Merton), multi-national corporations, Marxist revolutionaries (e.g., Freire), literacy activists (e.g., Kozol), and three waves of radical feminist scholar-activists, among others, have all used focus groups to help advance their concerns and causes. We will discuss these conceptual issues as well as related strategies for conducting rich focus group sessions.

    Our workshop will begin with a discussion of the nature and function of focus groups, along with our concerns about their fate in conservative social and political times. Next, we will present a brief history of focus group research from its beginnings in media effects research during WWII, through its popular use in various social movements, and to its current explosive dispersion across many disciplines and for many purposes. Finally, we will discuss how we have used focus groups strategically in several of our own research projects. This discussion will include topics such as: how to recruit participants; how to choose spaces for hosting collective conversations; how to develop and use leading questions; how to follow up on key themes developed by group members; how and when to manage groups; and how to listen for “subtexts” that emerge from focus group discussions; and how interpret and deal with apparent “breakdowns” in group processes and understandings. These up close and personal examples of focus groups in action should help to illustrate their productive possibilities, their inherent dangers, and the many contingencies involved in focus group research.

4. Maria Mayan

Workshop Title:The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry: Designing, thinking about and executing rigorous qualitative inquiry

     While it is unlikely that qualitative researchers would ever agree on the answer to, "What is qualitative inquiry?" there are some principles, heuristics, and "rules of thumb" that are essentials to moving and thinking through a qualitative project. This workshop will introduce participants to these qualitative essentials such as: theoretical positioning, inductive thinking, the role of self, methodological cohesion, and rigor/standards in qualitative inquiry. Participants will have the opportunity to consider these essentials in the context of their own projects. The workshop will follow selections from my little paperback, Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry available at a reduced conference rate from Left Coast Press.

5. Carlos Calderón

Workshop Title:Quality Assessment of Qualitative Health Research: new challenges and proposals.

Language: Spanish;

Evaluación de la Calidad en Investigación Cualitativa en Salud: nuevos retos y propuestas.

En este Taller se plantea avanzar en la discusión acerca de la calidad en nuestro trabajo como investigadores cualitativos en el ámbito de la salud y de los servicios sanitarios. Se expondrán las principales propuestas y ejes de debate acerca de la evaluación de la calidad de la investigación cualitativa teniendo en cuenta tres dimensiones principales: los criterios, el proceso y la escritura.
El taller se llevará a cabo en español -la comunicación en inglés también es posible-, con una doble intención deliberativa y pragmática, y por tanto, intentará combinar el componente expositivo con la discusión de ejemplos prácticos y la interacción entre los asistentes.

Quality Assessment of Qualitative Health Research: new challenges and proposals.

In this Workshop we will try to advance with participants in the discussion about the quality of qualitative research on the health and health care services fields. The main proposals and debate grounds will be exposed taking into account three different dimensions in quality assessment: criteria, process and writing. The Workshop will be in Spanish - communication in English will be possible too-, by means of both deliberative and pragmatic dynamics, combining theoretical discussions, practical examples and interaction among participants.

6. Donna M. Mertens & Kelly M. Munger

Workshop Title: Qualitative Research and Social Transformation in the Disability Community

    This workshop will examine the role of qualitative research as a contributor to the social transformation agenda of the disability community. The philosophical assumptions of the transformative paradigm will be used to examine what is meant by ethical approaches to research with the disability community in terms of the promotion of human rights and social justice. Strategies for eliciting and documenting realities as they are experienced by people with disabilities will be discussed in terms of dimensions of diversity that are relevant in specific contexts (e.g., use of various modes of communication, need for supportive accommodations). Methods for building relationships with people with disabilities will be shared based on cultural respect and partnership development. Methodological implications for qualitative (and mixed methods) will be discussed as they are applicable for the contribution to the social transformation agenda. This workshop encourages people with disabilities and people who work with the disability community to engage in discussions of strategies and experiences relevant to these topics.

7. L. Goodall & Chris Poulos

Workshop Title: Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life

    This workshop will provide a practical approach to crafting narratives designed for qualitative audiences and general readers. Participants will be asked to work on their own narratives as well as to provide helpful responses to the narratives of other participants. We will use my little paperback volume, Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life as a workbook. Participants are encouraged to read this book prior to the workshop. Copies may be obtained online from your favorite vendor or directly from the publisher (Left Coast Press). For those who cannot obtain a copy prior to the Congress, the publisher is offering a 20% discount to Congress participants onsite.

8. Anne Kuckartz

Workshop Title: Qualitative Data Analysis – Researcher Controlled and Computer assisted. A hands-on insight on MAXQDA

    In how far does the use of a computer programm influence and/or change the process of qualitative data analysis? This is a crucial question for many researchers wether or not they use a software for their analysis. The workshops points out the crucial links between computer and researcher. We will check out efficient strategies and concrete steps guarteeing your leadership in the analysis process, giving the tool no chance of a „take-over“. The result ? Dramatically broadend potential for your data analysis.
    The workshop will be hands-on , we will work on the topic using MAXQDA, one of the world leading software tools for Qualitative Data Analysis. Participants should bring their own laptop. If this is not possible, please contact me in advance.

9. Johnny Saldaña

Workshop Title: Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Arts-Based Research from Page to Stage

    No prior theatre or performance experience is needed to participate in this workshop. Arts-based research, ethnodrama in particular, has been advocated by such key figures in qualitative inquiry as Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln as a powerful way for ethnography to recover yet interrogate the meanings of lived experiences. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud informally from scripts (and, pending A/V availability, watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance). We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues." Participants will select a personal story as the basis for workshopping an informal retelling of that work to peers. The facilitator will guide each researcher-as-storyteller through the process of selecting necessary sensory details, choosing evocative language, and employing gesture and voice as instruments for dramatizing the data.

10. Janice Morse

Workshop Title: Mixed Methods: Principles and Procedures

    In this workshop I will discuss advances in mixed-method design involving the interface of qualitative and quantitative methods. First I will distinguish between multiple-methods and mixed-methods, and why mixed-method designs may present threats to validity. We will then discuss the notion of theoretical drive, and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual simultaneous designs. Finally, I will discuss sequential designs: QUAL-quan (single sample, data transformation) and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual two sample designs.

11. Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt

Workshop Title: ‘Between the two’: Using Deleuzian Thought in Collaborative Writing

‘philosophy … involves creating concepts … that are always new’.
(Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 5)

Within the excitement and expectation of the crisis of representation it is not just philosophy that engages in the continuing processes of creative conceptualisation; we wish to argue that in all aspects of human subject research such processes of engagement are both inevitable and necessary. Further we would argue that Richardson’s inducement to use writing as a method of inquiry steers us headlong into exciting and productive conceptual and collaborative collusion with the ideas and approaches of Deleuze.

This provides a sketch of our performative autoethnographic method in which, we would argue, the vulnerabilities which emerge in moving the self from the purely personal into the politically charged terrain of the collaborative creates what Denzin has referred to as the ‘sacred places’ in which exciting new possibilities for human subject research open up.

The workshop is designed, therefore, to promote the use of a range of ‘figures’ found, conceptualised and illustrated in the work of Deleuze with a view to encouraging the workshop participants to employ these figures in practical engagement with and development of their own writing in collaborative contexts.

Pre-workshop reading
Will be distributed to provide some introduction and opportunity to:
• critically reflect upon relevant aspects of Deleuzian philosophy,
• initially consider how figures drawn from this philosophy might contribute to collaborative writing approaches
• read some examples of collaborative writing that has made use of these figures

Reference:
Deleuze G and Guattari F (1994) What is philosophy London Verso

12. Michal Krumer-Nevo & Maya Lavie-Ajayi

Workshop Title: Participative Action Research

     Participative Action Research (PAR) is a research attitude or an epistemology that challenges the traditions of social science. PAR developed from the notion that all wo/men, including the uneducated and the most excluded or oppressed, are intellectual, they have rational faculties, and they carry knowledge. Moreover, PAR claims that the marginal social location of the less powerful members of society gives them access to oppositional or counter-hegemonic notions of social reality which are grounded in personal experience.
        This workshop will offer a theoretical and practical discussion of PAR as a critical and a feminist research approach that offers new methodological possibilities for a democratic social changing research process. We will discuss the possibilities and challenges in doing PAR and provide detailed examples of different methods within the PAR approach.

13. Mitch Allen (Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.) & C. Deb Laughton (Publisher Guilford Publishing Company, Methodology & Statistics)

Workshop Title: Publishing a Qualitative Study

     This workshop is designed to give the researcher guidance on how to publish a qualitative study. Taught by two of the leading publishers of qualitative books, you will learn how to think about your book or article as a publisher or journal editor would, how to sell them on your idea, and how to get the writing finished. Using instruction, brief exercises, and group discussion, you will be given strategies for approaching and convincing a publisher to publish your book, ways to make your article attractive to editors, and concrete steps for finishing that half-done study on your computer. Bring your book or article idea to be discussed.

14.Claudio Moreira & Marcelo Diversi

Workshop Title: Decolonizing Classrooms

This workshop is designed around the central idea of co-constructing, with students in higher education, a dialogical collaboration in the processes of interpretation and production of decolonizing scholarship. We, facilitators and participants, will share our humble, and humbling, experiences with resisting colonizing rituals (e.g., use of titles and other power markers), exploring decolonizing possibilities of being (e.g., unconditional human rights), and with critiquing teaching while teaching. At the end, we hope participants will have new language, narratives, and ideas for advancing critical pedagogy from within our colonizing educational system.

15. Mercilee M. Jenkins & Dr. Amy Kilgard

Workshop Title: Ethnographic Writing for the Stage

A workshop designed to help participants develop theatrical scripts using ethnographic materials. I have been writing plays inspired by ethnographic research and getting them produced at small professional theatres for about 20 years and hopes to pass on some of what I have learned in the form of general principles, dramaturgical advise and personal examples. Members of the workshop are requested to submit in advance a scene or segment of a play or performance piece they are working on which will be shaped during the workshop. We will use exercises and group activities to develop the short manuscripts submitted and try out excerpts in performance. One or two assistants, who are graduate students experienced in script development will assist me in working with the participants. Recommended background reading include Jenkins' essay, "Ethnographic Writing is as Good as Ten Mothers" and "The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit: Selected Excerpts" soon to be published in Qualitative Inquiry, and Saldana's Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre.

Afternoon Session: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM

16. Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis

Workshop Title: Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research

This workshop will focus on writing personal narratives and reflexively including researchers' selves and their interaction with participants in ethnographic projects. Topics covered will include: narrative truth; ethics; developing scenes, characters, conversation, and dramatic action; writing vulnerably and evocatively; truth and memory; writing as inquiry; interactive interviews and co-constructed narratives; evaluating and publishing autoethnography.

17.Ma. del Consuelo Chapela, Carolina Martínez-Salgado,& Addis Abeba Salinas

Workshop Title: Understanding and Doing Interpretation

This workshop is open to everybody and will be presented in Spanish. First we will present a brief insight into interpretation from three perspectives: understanding of the human being as constructor of meaning and language; historic development of interpretation; and the importance of interpretation for the achievement of QI social action. Next we will experience interpretation in a way that we can see interpretation potential and also some frequent interpretation mistakes. Finally we will dialogue about the importance of an interpretation that is deep, coherent, and respectful of informants for critical QI action. If you are going to participate in this workshop, you are encouraged to bring along with you a small object with a particular value for you that you particularly cherish. "

QI08. TALLER ‘ENTENDIENDO Y HACIENDO INTERPRETACIÓN

Este taller está abierto a todos los congresistas y será presentado en español. Primero haremos un breve recorrido por los fundamentos de la interpretación desde tres perspectivas: la del entendimiento del ser humano constructor de significado y lenguaje; la del desarrollo histórico de la interpretación; y la de la importancia de la interpretación para lograr la acción de la metodología cualitativa en el cambio social. Enseguida llevaremos a cabo algunas experiencias prácticas de interpretación que nos permitan identificar algunos errores frecuentes en la interpretación. Finalmente dialogaremos sobre la importancia que tiene la interpretación profunda, coherente y respetuosa del informante para la acción crítica de la averiguación cualitativa. Se solicita a quienes se inscriban en este taller que traigan un pequeño objeto al que en un momento de su vida hayan asignado un valor particular y que resguarden como algo valioso.

18. Ian Stronach and Dean Garrett

Workshop Title: "The Art of Deconstruction"

     This workshop will consider practices of deconstruction, and seek to explore in a practical way what it means to *do* rather than give an account of such research activity. The workshop will draw on recent publications by the authors dealing with theory, methodology and deconstructive case study. No prior reading is necessary, but those in search of preliminary orientation may find the following helpful.

     Stronach, I., Garratt, D. et al (2007) Reflexivity, the picturing of selves, the forging of method. Qualitative Inquiry 13, 2: 179 - 203. Stronach, I. (2009) Globalizing education, educating the local: how method made us mad. London: Routledge.

19. John W. Creswell

Workshop Title: Controversies and Issues in Mixed Methods

Mixed methods research is now 20 years old, and significant developments have taken place around the world and across many disciplines in the last five years. As interest grows, it is matched by an increase in questions and controversies. This is a healthy sign of the development of the field, but, unfortunately, the controversies are little discussed in the mixed methods scholarly literature. This workshop will address these controversies, and discuss topics such as how we need to resist the move toward consensus in mixed methods research, how certain forces may be misguiding mixed methods (e.g., funding sources), how the language of mixed methods may marginalize qualitative research and create dominant discourses, how the paradigm debate continues on underground, and how mixed methods designs misappropriate methods from other fields. The format will be a presentation augmented by discussion in which participants share experiences with these issues.

20. Norman Denzin & Michael D. Giardina

Workshop Title: Performance Ethnography

    This performance-based workshop will focus on the implications of decolonizing emancipatory discourses, and indigenous epistemologies for critical, interpretive inquiry. The workshop will foreground post 9/11/01 racialized performance narratives. Participants will form performance groups, Working back and forth between the personal. moments of epiphany, and the political, we will stage performances that enact visions of a free democratic society. Traditional forms of qualitative inquiry are put into relief as we disrupt the notion of "business as usual" in the current interpretive social science community.

21. Jane F. Gilgun & Karen Staller

Workshop Title: Navigating the Academy as Qualitative Social Work Researchers

     This workshop offers practical strategies to aid qualitative social work researchers to advance in their careers. The workshop is designed for PhD students and junior faculty but welcomes faculty at all levels of rank, who are engaging in qualitative research projects or plan to do so. We will provide information necessary for academic success including understanding issues related to promotion and tenure, strategies for finding funding and identifying receptive journals for publication, and strategies for completing dissertations and research reports. We will also stress the importance of networking with like-minded faculty, taking leadership roles in associations of qualitative social work researchers, and engaging in on-going education of others about how qualitative research contributes to social work’s mission of social and economic justice.

The workshop will be conducted by two senior and one mid-career faculty members with long-term experiences in mentoring Ph.D. students, junior, and mid-career faculty in several different U.S. schools of social work. We welcome scholars from other disciplines to this workshop, and we have mentored across disciplines, but our examples will primarily be from our perspectives as social work faculty.

22. Ronald Pelias

Workshop Title: Performative Writing

     The workshop is designed to help participants think through what constitutes performative writing and to apply that thinking to their own work. The workshop will address how texts can perform on the page, how performative writing stands in relationship to other qualitative methods, how particular writing strategies can be deployed to make a text perform, how to manage ethical concerns that emerge in performative writing, and how experience, rendered evocatively, functions as evidence. The participants will have an opportunity to engage in performative writing through a series of planned exercises that will demonstrate the power of performative writing techniques. The workshop is open to all who have an interest in performative writing as a method.

23.Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Workshop Title: Mixed and Emergent Methods Workshop

    This workshop will introduce qualitatively driven approaches to mixed methods and emergent methods data collection and analysis. We will introduce the concept of "emergent" and "mixed" methods. We will employ a case study approach that introduces research projects that sucessfully apply both types of methods in their data collection and analysis strategies. We discuss the strengths and limitations of in applying these methods tools.

The second half of the workshop will demonstrate how to integrate the use of computer-assisted software into a mixed methods and emergent research project. Computer assisted software can be an excellent way to manage large numbers of qualitative text, audio, video and graphic data as well as still images.

We will demonstrate how computer assisted software can carry out a grounded theory approac to the analysis of your data --from memoing to coding and retrieving your materials. It is also possible to conduct team work across geographical regions.

We will explore how to carry out a specific mixed methods analysis including transforming your qualitative data into quantitative categories ( quantitizing ). We will also explore some of the methodological issues involved in employing software in your analysis. We will use HyperResearch, an easy to learn user friendly computer-assisted software package that analyzes qualitative data ( text, audio, video and graphics) as well as HyperTranscribe, a computer-assisted transcribing software tool (you can download a free demo of each product at researchware.com ). We will address the following in our data analysis portion of the workshop:

What is your data analysis style?
Before the workshop meets we ask you bring a short reflexive memo on this question that you would like to share with the group (I will call on volunteers to share their memo).
We will provide a didactic exercise on finding your data analysis standpoint.
We will take up some advanced features of the HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe program starting with the Hypothesis Tester and advanced coding and memo features, including the network diagramming. We will talk about transcription as a form of data analysis.
In addition, we will demonstrate how HR software is used to integrate a mixed methods analysis and emergent methods analysis.

24. Alecia Jackson and Lisa A. Mazzei

Workshop Title: Straining Notions of Voice: Deconstructive Practices

    Challenging un-problematized notions and practices of voice in qualitative inquiry is the focus of this workshop. Such “troubling” of voice seeks to question its privileged status in qualitative inquiry. The goal of this workshop is to put voice under poststructural scrutiny in order to challenge the constraints that limit what “counts” as voice, and therefore data, in traditional qualitative research. Using transcripts and published work, participants will consider deconstructive strategies that seek the limits of voice toward a consideration of that which is to be learned from “evidence” that has previously gone unnamed and unnoticed.

In this workshop, participants will focus collectively on straining voice, confronting the limits of a reliance on narrative voice in qualitative inquiry. Through an examination of transcripts from participants’ own research and published qualitative work in flagship journals, participants will engage deconstructive questions that will enable a critique of authority, authenticity, presence, and meaning of voice. We envision that the activities and ensuing discussion will de-center uncritical practices of data collection, analysis, and representation; this de-centering will be accomplished by working against conventional strategies of voice that present either unadulterated (i.e., “raw”) participant voices or the inclusion of a multiplicity of voices (i.e., “polyvocality”). The workshop activities will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

This workshop will be interactive. Participants will be asked to read one published research representation before the workshop (provided by the organizers), and to share data from their own research.

25. Kathy Charmaz

Workshop Title: Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects

This workshop session introduces ways to use grounded theory methods to study social justice issues. Grounded theory methods consist of flexible guidelines to adopt, alter, and fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize your data gathering and analysis. These methods and the area of social justice are treated as serving mutually complementary purposes. Grounded theory methods can assist social justice researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling. A focus on social justice can help grounded theorists to move their methods into macro analyses. Major grounded theory strategies will be presented with suggestions about how use them to spark fresh ideas about data. Familiarity with grounded theory methods is helpful but is not necessary. The work session covers an overview of basic guidelines and includes several hands-on exercises. If you have collected some qualitative data, bring a completed interview, set of field notes, or document to analyze. If you do not have data yet, we will supply qualitative data for you. If you prefer to use a laptop for writing, bring one, but you can complete the exercises without a computer.

26.Charles Garoian

Workshop Title: Performing the Spectacle

PERFORMING THE SPECTACLE: A workshop that exposes, examines, and critiques visual culture through the disjunctive narratives of collage, montage, assemblage, installation, and performance art. The liminal and contingent characteristics of these genres will be explored as participants' challenge the spectacle of visual culture through performances of subjectivity.

27. Gaile S. Cannella & Yvonna S. Lincoln & Donald R. Collins & Michelle S. Perez

Workshop Title:"Designing Critical Qualitative Research: Activist Methods that Counter Entrepreneurial and Disaster Capitalisms "

Scholars from a range of perspectives and fields have pointed to the need for critical conceptualizations of research purposes and practices. Yet, this work has not usually challenged domination in everyday life. The contemporary neoliberal context of entrepreneurial and disaster capitalisms (whether planned or emerging as if natural), and the possibilities for exploitation and radical social engineering generated by that context, results in a contemporary circumstance in which researchers must accelerate their own critical methodologies and rethink the purposes of those practices. This rethinking demands that researchers examine their own entrepreneurial research agendas. Further, this reconceptualization involves a "multilogical critical" research perspective and can employ methodological critical bricolage that becomes a multiperspectival process. Additionally, anti-colonial understandings that would privilege egalitarian activist perspectives and support collective reciprocal relations can facilitate this critical bricolage incorporating "diversality" and the recognition of the broader ideological, cultural, and political context (See J. Kincheloe on critical bricolage). This rethought research conceptualization would be especially useful for revealing circumstances that construct and promote cycles of disaster, as well as conditions of exploitation, invisibility, and erasure from within practices of capitalist entrepreneurialism.

Participants in this workshop will:
(1) examine critical construction of research problems needed within this neoliberal, global context;
(2) explore data collection and analysis methods that can be used to design critical bricolage and are consistant with multilogical critical perspectives;
(3) discuss forms of dissemination that are public and critically activist. Finally, as time allows, small groups will work together to construct frameworks for critical qualitative research projects regarding particular neoliberal societal issues.

28. Laurel Richardson

Workshop Title:"THREE WORDS: A Workshop for everyone--in any field, any writing mode, any place in their career, any writing issue/block/delight... "

Got writer’s block? Got computer bloat? Got experimental bug? Curious about autoethnography? Wanting social relevance? Tired of workshops? Overwhelmed with questions?

In this hands -on experiential workshop our beacon is C. Wright Mill’s dictum that the sociological is the juncture between the personal and the historical. First, you will choose a half-decade of your life and write about two pages about yourself in three word sentences. Not two word. And not four. Just three words. Second, you will consider what was going on in the world during that half-decade, and write about that in three word sentences. Then, you will merge your writing about your self with your writing about the larger world. You may choose to select one sentence from each—or several sentences. Or, use what have written as a jumping off place.

There will ample time in the workshop to share and get feedback from other participants and facilitator.

If you can string three words together, you are doing very very well…and I guarantee the workshop will help you meaningfully string together just the right number of words.

29.Aitor Gomez and Cesar A. Cisneros Puebla

Workshop Title: Collecting, analyzing and interpreting qualitative and spatial data in social transformation perspectives

This workshop explores the collection, interpretation, and analysis of qualitative data, and examines the relevant criterion for maintaining and assessing data quality, all to ultimately obtain major scientific excellence and social impact.

We will present examples of research studies where it has been combined the knowledge from the international scientific community with the voice of the groups that traditionally have been excluded from research about them. Such research projects have been conducted with: a) the critical communicative methodology and achieved important international socio-political impact and with b) the spatially integrated social science approach, which allowed us to discover links between human emotions as culture, language, memory and its spatial dimensions with geographic references. Under the framework of these projects, we will deepen on how to organize research studies to include the voice of the voiceless since the beginning of the research until the writing of materials and dissemination of results. We will introduce a series of strategies to collect, interpret and analyze information that ensure the involvement of research participants, will present some examples of how to link qualitative software with geographic information systems in a public participation perspective, and will analyze how to present results to diverse audiences and for journal publications. We will finally see how the use of all these dialogic research strategies increases the capacity of research to transform social reality, contributing to overcome the idea of a global community in crisis.

30.Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle

Workshop Title: Foucault's Methodologies for Transformative Projects on the Body and Health

In this workshop, we will explore how Foucault's theoretical tool kit can be used to examine the looks and uses of the body, body technologies, and ill and healthy bodies. For Foucault the body can be examined as a site through which individuals can use their power as a force for ethical conduct. In our workshop, we will begin our discussion by reviewing Foucault's major concepts (e.g., power relations, bio-politics, discourse, disciplinary techniques, technologies of the self) as they relate to doing qualitative research on the body. Our primary aim is to provide participants with a range of strategies for how to use Foucault's concepts to analyze texts, interviews, narratives and ethnographies concerning the body. We will provide specific examples and set a number of exercises to illustrate the possibilities for analyzing qualitative research data through a Foucauldian lens. These examples and exercises should help illustrate the possibilities, but also the boundaries, of using Foucault's tool kit to study the body within the constraints of neoliberal society.

31. Aaron M. Kuntz, Ryan Gildersleeve, Rozana Carducci, and Penny Pasque

Workshop Title: Dialogic Community Building

We will focus on developing dialogic communities as a means of resisting methodological conservativism and emphasize the following interlinked skills: understanding dialogic knowledge construction; assessing the viability of dialogic community building in educational contexts; developing daily research practices that emerging critical scholars can use for coping, surviving, and thriving in the academy. Workshop participants will actively engage in discussions concerning the role of dialogic communities in complex contemporary times and identify specific strategies for dialogic community building in local contexts. Participants will leave the workshop with a preliminary dialogic community building plan as well as a packet of references and resource materials aimed at supporting their efforts.

32.Julianne Cheek

Workshop Title: The art and craft of developing qualitative research proposals: How to sell but not sell out

Designing qualitative research studies involves many decisions at many points in the design process. The question to be answered/or the topic that is the focus of the study affects the choice of methods/techniques. The audience that is being written for, the time possible for the study, and the resources available affect the way those methods can be employed in the design.
This workshop will explore aspects of qualitative research design and the translation of those aspects into a written research proposal. It will have both a practical and discursive flavor. In so doing the workshop will surface the layers of decision making that are embedded in the research design/proposal development process. This includes methodological, ethical, and political considerations. Depending on who and what the study is for (eg funders, university committees, government departments), at various points of the design process certain of these considerations may come to the fore, or conversely be relegated to the background. This can create tensions and dilemmas for the qualitative researcher in terms of competing agendas and/or pragmatic decisions to be made. In many ways it is as much a political process as it is a research one.
To get the most out of the workshop participants might bring with them a research proposal that they are working on or have worked on so that they can use that as a basis to explore the points covered. It is hoped that the workshop will be useful and interesting to anyone who is grappling with research design issues, or who teaches and advises students about these matters, or who may interact with funders and other bodies when writing proposals seeking support for qualitative research.

33.Susanne Gannon and Peter Bansel

Workshop Title: Narrative and pedagogy

This workshop considers how we might begin to rethink narrativity in research by attending more closely to the spatial, temporal and material planes of possibility and relationality within which narrative accounts are produced and understood. We argue that stories are constituted and regulated by social and discursive practices and available narrative resources. We invite participants to reconsider the production of the subject in narrative accounts as an artful accomplishment rather than an embedded truth. Through looking at a selection of research data (including autobiographical accounts, collective biographies and educational policy), we will explore how narrative produces subjects who are simultaneously multiple and idiosyncratically singular and what it means for research design if we begin to undo the subjects of narrative.