Making Our Own Way: Creative and Critical Approaches to Qualitative Inquiry in the US South

Multiple Presenter Session: Panel

Abstract

This panel shares the work of doctoral students and candidates located in the US South who engage in critical and creative approaches to qualitative inquiry in their studies of social justice issues. They engage in speculative essay, narrative inquiry, arts-based research, portraiture and Indigenous Storywork. The presenters demonstrate how they navigate and negotiate a sociopolitical context of the US South that in many ways tries to prevent them from engaging in the research they would want to do: critical, youth-based, empowering, and evocative. And yet, the presenters find ways to negotiate and disrupt these contexts, many through alternative ways of doing research and the dissertation, to make their work their own. Their work in navigating these sociopolitical challenges encourages curriculum scholars to disrupt their own theoretical and methodological confines. Additionally, this panel provides hopeful possibilities for other doctoral students to creatively reimagine what may be possible in their own work.

Sub Track

• AESA

Chair

• Peggy Shannon-Baker, Georgia Southern University

Discussants

• E. Anthony Muhammad, Georgia Southern University

• Ming Fang He, Georgia Southern University

Presenters

• Eric Lind, Georgia Southern University

• Darlene C Williams, Georgia Southern University

• Victoria Mead, Georgia Southern University

• Kelley Price, Georgia Southern University

• Jennifer Gonzalez, Georgia Southern University

• Ambah Kioko, Georgia Southern University