Norman K. Denzin (1942-2023) was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA, and Founding Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Michael D. Giardina is Professor of Physical Culture and Qualitative Inquiry in the Department of Sport Management at Florida State University, USA, and Director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Section I 1. The Smallness of Things: Futures in Qualitative Research 2. Healing our Inner 5th Grader in Qualitative Inquiry: How Post-intentional Phenomenology (PIP) Might Help;
Section II 3. From the Shores to the Sea: Narratives of Uprootedness and Post-qualitative Inquiry 4. Trans-in-train: On Reading the Room and Becoming-in-relation 5. Cosmopraxis: Living Relational (Qualitative) Questions; Section III 6. Honoring Indigenous Ethico-onto-epistemologies Across (K)new Materialist, Posthumanist, and Postqualitative Inquiry 7. Tricky Stories: Settler-academic Reflections on Anti-colonial Teaching 8. The Task at Hand: Qualitative Inquiry in (Post?) Pandemic Times; Section IV 9. From Pre-formative Writing to Trans-formative Writing: A Long and Hidden Creative Process at the Findhorn Foundation 10. Entangled Verbs: Feminist Transdisciplinary Multi-modal Art-making 11. Reimagining Philosophical Perspectives Concerning the Writer-subject; Coda 12. A Critical Performance Pedagogy that Matters