The Qualitative Manifesto: A Call to Arms

What are the prospects for qualitative researchers and their methods of inquiry? The leading figure in the qualitative community, Norman Denzin, provides a ‘call to arms’ for researchers in this brief, provocative book. He promotes a research tradition engaged in social justice, sensitive to identity and indigenous concerns, brave in the presentation of research in forms beyond traditional academic writing, and committed to passing on this tradition to their students and colleagues. Denzin offers a brief history of how the qualitative community has developed to this point and the challenges it currently faces from academic, corporate and governmental sources, then outlines a cogent blueprint for the future. This is an important work for anyone engaged in qualitative inquiry.