30DoS 2020 - Day 10

Qualitative Inquiry

Qualitative Inquiry (QI) provides an interdisciplinary forum for qualitative methodology and related issues in the human sciences. The journal publishes open-peer reviewed research articles that experiment with manuscript form and content, and focus on methodological issues raised by qualitative research rather than the content or results of the research. QI also addresses advances in specific methodological strategies or techniques.

Link to website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/qix

Blockmans, I. G. E. (2019). Encounters With the White Coat: Confessions of a Sexuality and Disability Researcher in a Wheelchair in Becoming. Qualitative Inquiry, 25(2), 170–179. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417750181

Teachman, G., McDonough, P., Macarthur, C., & Gibson, B. E. (2018). A Critical Dialogical Methodology for Conducting Research With Disabled Youth Who Use Augmentative and Alternative Communication. Qualitative Inquiry, 24(1), 35–44. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800417727763

Esposito, J. (2014). Pain Is a Social Construction Until It Hurts: Living Theory on My Body. Qualitative Inquiry, 20(10), 1179–1190. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077800414545234

Google Scholar

Perhaps an obvious and well-known resource, but invaluable for finding research material both retrospectively and prospectively, with the addition of the “Cited by” option. Many academics have their profiles on line, so you can trace people’s complete body of work. As with any search tool, the use of synonyms, truncation, parentheses and other syntax terms like AND, OR, and NOT can make all the difference to a search.

Link to website: https://scholar.google.com

Link to Google’s YouTube channel (there is no specific channel for Scholar): https://www.youtube.com/user/Google

Mushroom at the End of the World by Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing

‘Matsutake is the most valuable mushroom in the world—and a weed that grows in human-disturbed forests across the northern hemisphere. Through its ability to nurture trees, matsutake helps forests to grow in daunting places. It is also an edible delicacy in Japan, where it sometimes commands astronomical prices. In all its contradictions, matsutake offers insights into areas far beyond just mushrooms and addresses a crucial question: what manages to live in the ruins we have made? A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, The Mushroom at the End of the World follows one of the strangest commodity chains of our times to explore the unexpected corners of capitalism. Here, we witness the varied and peculiar worlds of matsutake commerce: the worlds of Japanese gourmets, capitalist traders, Hmong jungle fighters, industrial forests, Yi Chinese goat herders, Finnish nature guides, and more. These companions also lead us into fungal ecologies and forest histories to better understand the promise of cohabitation in a time of massive human destruction. By investigating one of the world’s most sought-after fungi, The Mushroom at the End of the World presents an original examination into the relation between capitalist destruction and collaborative survival within multispecies landscapes, the prerequisite for continuing life on earth’.

Link to book: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691178325/the-mushroom-at-the-end-of-the-world