Norman K. Denzin is Distinguished Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology and Humanities, at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is the author, editor, or co-editor of numerous books, including The Qualitative Manifesto, Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire, and Performance Ethnography: Critical Pedagogy and the Politics of Culture. He is past editor of The Sociological Quarterly, co-editor of Qualitative Inquiry, founding editor of Cultural Studies-Critical Methodologies, editor of International Review of Qualitative Research, editor of Studies in Symbolic Interaction, and founding Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of Higher Education and Educational Administration at Texas A & M University. She is author, coauthor, or editor of such books as Naturalistic Inquiry and Fourth Generation Evaluation (both with Egon G. Guba), and Organizational Theory and Inquiry. Vice President of Division J (Postsecondary Education) of the American Educational Research Association, Dr. Lincoln formerly served as president of the American Evaluation Association and is the recipient of many prestigious awards. Dr. Lincoln coedited, with Dr. Denzin, the Handbook of Qualitative Research.

Preface - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. Introduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman K.Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
I. Methods of Collecting and Analyzing Empirical Materials
2. Narrative Inquiry: Still a Field in the Making - Susan E. Chase
3. Critical Arts-based Inquiry: The Pedagogy and Performance of a Radical Ethical Aesthetic - Susan Finley
4. Oral History - Linda Shopes
5. Observations on Observation: Continuities and Challenges - Michael Angrosino and Judith Rosenberg
6. Visual Methodology: Toward a More Seeing Research - Jon D. Prosser
7. Performative Autoethnography: Critical Embodiments and Possibilities - Tami Spry
8. The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography - Sarah Gaston
9. Analyzing Talk and Text - Anssi Parakyla and Johanna Ruusuvuori
10. Focus Groups: Contingent Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry - George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis
II. The Art and Practices of Interpretation, Evaluation, and Presentation
11. Qualitative Research, Science, and Government: Evidence, Criteria, Policy, and Politics - Harry Torrance
12. Reflections on Interpretive Adequacy in Qualitative Research - David L. Altheide and John M. Johnson
13. Analysis and Representation Across the Continuum - Laura L. Ellingson
14. Post Qualitative Research: The Critique and the Coming After - Elisabeth Adams St. Pierre
15. Qualitative Research and Technology: In the Midst of a Revolution - Judith Davidson and Silvana diGregorio
16. The Elephant in the Living Room, or Extending the Conversation About the Politics of Evidence - Norman K. Denzin
17. Writing into Position: Strategies for Composition and Evaluation - Ronald J. Pelias
18. Evaluation as a Relationally Responsible Practice - Tineke Abma and Guy A.M. Widdershoven, Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Author Index
Subject Index