Creative Subversion: Staking a Claim for Critical Qualitative Inquiry

Puebla, César A. Cisneros

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“…MCQI can contribute to collective discussions about scientifically-based policy that is essentially linked to public policies emanating from civil aspirations toward emancipation, justice, and equity. Furthermore, it is relevant that MCQI is intrinsically and immanently linked to transformative, militant, activist, rebellious, and creative practices of inquiry, as (a) creative subversion (Cisneros-Puebla, 2021), (b) creative activism (Harrebye, 2016), and (c) collective theorization (Shukaitis et al, 2007).…”

Section: Always/already Acknowledging the Political: Making Mcqimentioning

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Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy

Puebla

2023

Qualitative Inquiry

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Nowadays, multivocality has been discussed as if it were a criterion for evaluating the quality of qualitative research, as well as if it were the practice, style, or format of narrative research itself. Grounded in Bakhtin’s legacy, the need to incorporate multivocality as a key element of critical qualitative inquiry as a whole is raised. Thus, multivocal critical qualitative inquiry (MCQI) is proposed as an opportunity to build democratic possibilities for a practice that operates on the threshold of new realities that emerge through the conjunction of alternative interpretive methodologies and emerging social movements of protest. MCQI is then outlined as an avenue for the gestation of public policies despite the fact that the real links between citizen actions of protest and government responsiveness have hardly been rigorously explored. Sympoiesis and pluriversal politics are the theoretical and epistemological perspectives of such conjunction nourished by inquiry practices such as creative subversion, creative activism, and militant research. To exemplify the ways in which MCQI practices can be thought, seven projects were selected from a worldwide production: two projects on ecological issues and environmental care, three in the area of urban planning and democratization, and two around the sensitive problems of refugees, exiles, and migrants. MCQI may constitute a crossroad for the best and most committed inquiry practices nurtured by the interpretive traditions of the social sciences in its ties to struggles for the destruction of all kinds of epistemic, social, political, racial, economic, ecological, cognitive, and legal injustice.

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Section: Always/already Acknowledging the Political: Making Mcqimentioning

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Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy

Puebla

2023

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“…In conjunction with the right research question, the use of photography in qualitative studies is a novel way to tell an organization’s tough stories that may not be easily captured in words, and counter the dominant, humanist assumptions that limit the use and value of the self (Kuchinke, 2005; Trehan and Rigg, 2011) in HRD research. At the same time, numerous variations on photograph elicitation, which includes participant photography, might serve as creative subversion, a concept described by Cisneros Puebla (2020) as a “[…] methodology whose commitment is to be sensitive to the changing forms of social reality” (p. 2). This is because it subverts “a given order, a set of circumstances, implicit rules or, institutionally said, the status quo” (p. 2), which could meet Bierema’s (2020a) call for bold research in HRD.…”

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Moving the needle on qualitative approaches to studying HRD

Grenier

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2022

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to conclude this special issue on innovation in qualitative research by addressing the preceding papers in relation to the work of Human Resource Development (HRD) scholars and scholar-practitioners, consider the implications to the field of HRD and point to additional directions for innovative qualitative approaches. The authors use the term “innovative” to mean either an approach (or technique) that is newly conceived or one that is new to HRD (or little used). Design/methodology/approach The authors reviewed the papers in the special issue, identified other innovative qualitative approaches from the HRD literature and described briefly additional innovative approaches from other fields to suggest future directions for HRD professionals. Findings In this review, the authors noted the relatively few approaches to qualitative research that have been used regularly in HRD literature and suggested further innovative approaches that could deepen the understanding of organizations, including narrative, visual and indigenous methods, among others. Research limitations/implications This paper provides for HRD scholars an overview of a few qualitative research methodologies that are new to HRD and identifies additional approaches and epistemological challenges that could be valuable for future inquiry into complex organizations by HRD scholars and practitioners. Practical implications The authors suggest various feasible approaches and tools for HRD professionals to inquire into their practice in organizations to identify needs, evaluate outcomes and inquire into socially complex issues. Originality/value This study’s intent is to encourage the use of various innovative qualitative inquiry approaches when appropriate to understand and transform organizations. In particular, this study encourages the approaches that center the voices and experiences of those being studied and emphasizes the ways of listening to voices from the margins that may have been ignored previously.

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“…Authors in this special issue present some ways in which innovative qualitative research can be applied to HRD as a response to a call for bold research (Bierema, 2020), critical qualitative inquiry (Cisneros Puebla, 2021), innovative methods (Elsebach and Kramer, 2016), innovating research methods (Lê and Schmid, 2022) or the post-qualitative movement (Larson et al , 2021). As the existing normal in HRD cannot continue with the pandemic, HRD scholars and practitioners must “interrogate ‘normal’ … [doing research] that boldly responds to a post-pandemic world” (Bierema, 2020, p. 348).…”

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Introduction: innovation in qualitative research in HRD

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Grenier

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2022

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to offer a collection of articles that explore some of the many innovative approaches to qualitative inquiry and to challenge HRD scholars and practitioners to consider using innovative approaches in their work. In doing so, qualitative research in HRD can better capture and honour voices, experiences and meaning making of individuals, teams, organizations and communities. Design/methodology/approach Using Lê and Schmid’s (2022) definition of innovation in qualitative research, the authors selected four innovative approaches to qualitative research that have the potential to enhance HRD research and practice: use of multiple-case study designs in case study research in HRD, a new take on critical incident technique, a narrative approach of testimonio and a visual approach of participant photography. Findings Innovative approaches to qualitative research in this special issue include a review of case study research in HRD by Tkachenko et al., a new take on the familiar critical incident technique of Watkins et al., a narrative approach to testimonio by Salcedo et al. and a visual approach to participant photography by Hurtienne et al. The last article, by Grenier et al., addresses the implications of these articles to the field of HRD and points to additional directions for innovative qualitative approaches that can help to understand and create more inclusive, democratic and just organizations. Research limitations/implications The articles in this special issue are intended to spark a dialogue about the meaning of innovation in qualitative research in HRD. It also can serve as an impetus for considering how innovative approaches to qualitative research can better tackle questions that come from the new normal of the workplace, society and diverse contexts. Practical implications This special issue will give HRD scholars and practitioners a realistic, practical view on how innovation in qualitative research can help in exploring specific problems in the workplace. The articles will offer a glimpse into how specific social complex issues can be explored and addressed through innovative approaches, new and tried/modified, to qualitative inquiry. Originality/value Four articles introduce new and tried/modified qualitative methods, and their value is in prompting HRD scholars and practitioners to consider some of the innovative approaches in exploring, understanding and transforming the workplace. The final article is a review of more innovative qualitative approaches for HRD scholars and practitioners to understand complex organizational phenomena and promote positive and inclusive change accordingly.

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Creative Subversion: Staking a Claim for Critical Qualitative Inquiry

Cited by 6 publications

References 43 publications

Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy

Multivocal Critical Qualitative Inquiry as an Avenue for Public Policy

Moving the needle on qualitative approaches to studying HRD

Introduction: innovation in qualitative research in HRD

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