Weaving an Otherwise

"From the very first page of this book, indeed from the foreword onward, Tachine and Nicolazzo provide readers with a richly woven set of chapters that will surely provoke fresh ideas, innovative practices, and deeper thinking about the possibilities of qualitative research. The metaphor-and practice-of weaving is omnipresent in this evocative and beautifully written text to suggest that rigid boundaries of research need to be called into question to open up new possibilities. Every chapter provides a moving example of such possibilities."

Susan R. Jones - Professor Emerita, Department of Educational Studies, The Ohio State University

"This collection provides invaluable help with developing research tools for refusal, transformation, and change, acknowledging where we are, what we owe, and examining the relationalities embedded in the process of witnessing and recording. Repositioning research as indigenous survivance, BlackLove, responsibility, gifting, haunting, and more, these authors provide crucial guidance to mending research practices that are too often bound up by exclusions but, given ideas and practices shared here, subject to challenge and change."

Cris Mayo - Professor, Department of Education, University of Vermont

Acknowledgements

Foreword – Forward, or rather, toward

            Leigh Patel

Introduction – Weaving an Otherwise

            Amanda R. Tachine and Z Nicolazzo

Part I: BEFORE

Chapter 1 – Refusing Neoliberal Logics in Research Design

   Samuel D. Museus and Amy C. Wang

Chapter 2 – Survivance-Based Inquiries in and Beyond the Academy

   Angie Morrill and Leilani Sabzalian

Chapter 3 – “If you can't go to Bella Noche's…”: On the Onto-Epistemological Possibilities for Qualitative Researchers

   Blockett, Leonard D. Taylor, Jr., and Steve D. Mobley Jr.

Part II: DURING

Chapter 4 – Archives in the Hold: Overreading Black Student Activism

   Zachary Brown

Chapter 5 – Heeding Hauntings in Research for Mattering

   Irene H. Yoon and Grace A. Chen

Chapter 6 – (Re)Considerations of Answerability Through Gifting

   Christine A. Nelson (K’awaika/Diné) and Heather J. Shotton (Wichita/Kiowa/Cheyenne)

Part III: AFTER

Chapter 7 – Blacklove Stories

   Keon M. McGuire, Kirsten T. Edwards, and T. Elon Dancy, II 

Chapter 8– Learning from Abolition: Reconsidering the Carceral in Educational Research Methodologies

   Kyle Halle-Erby and Harper Keenan

Chapter 9– Methodologies for Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures

   Sharon Stein, Vanessa Andreotti, Cash Ahenakew, Rene Susa, Elwood Jimmy, Will Valley, Sarah Amsler, Camila Cardoso, Dino Siwek, Tereza Cajkova, Dani D’Emilia, Ninawa Huni Kui, Mateus Tremembe, Rosa Pitaguary, Benício Pitaguary, Nadia Pitaguary, Ubiraci Pataxó, Lynn Mario Trindade Menezes de Souza, Bill Calhoun, Shawn Van Sluys, Carolina Azul Duque, Kyra Royo Fay, Ben Lickerman

Afterword — Before, After, During the One Hundred Year Weave

            K. Wayne Yang

About the Authors

Index

Amanda Tachine

Dr. Amanda R. Tachine is Navajo from Ganado, Arizona. She is Náneesht’ézhí Táchii’nii (Zuni Red Running into Water clan) born for Tl’izilani (Many Goats clan). She is an Assistant Professor in Educational Leadership & Innovation at Arizona State University. Amanda’s research explores the relationship between systemic and structural histories of settler colonialism and the ongoing erasure of Indigenous presence and belonging in college settings using qualitative Indigenous methodologies. Her dissertation titled, Monsters and Weapons: Navajo students’ stories on their journeys to college was awarded the 2016 American Educational Research Association Division J Dissertation of the Year. She has published in the Journal of Higher Education, Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, and other scholarly outlets.

Z Nicolazzo

Dr. Z Nicolazzo is an associate professor of Trans* Studies in Education in the Center for the Study of Higher Education at the University of Arizona. Z’s research explores how discourses of gender pervade and mediate college environments, with particular attention paid to trans people. Additionally, her latest scholarship focuses on how trans people cultivate future possible selves through digital/online platforms, as well as how higher education invests in the logics of transmisogyny. Her first book, Trans* in college: Transgender students’ strategies for navigating campus life and the institutional politics of inclusion, was awarded the 2017 American Educational Research Association Division J Publication of the Year Award, and was published by Stylus in 2017.

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