Qualitative Research Journal

The Qualitative Research Journal is an electronic journal devoted to the communication of the theory and practice of qualitative research in the human sciences. It is published twice a year. The journal has sections for refereed articles, review essays on major works concerning qualitative methods (which may be commissioned or refereed), software reviews (commissioned) and book reviews (commissioned). If you have queries about the journal, please contact the editor, Dr Mark Vicars mark.vicars@vu.edu.au

Message from the editor

Having recently assumed the editorial reigns of responsibility from Carlene Boucher, I would like to take the opportunity, as the in-coming editor of Qualitative Research Journal, to thank Carlene for all her hard work in editorship and for he runstinting endeavours in promoting and supporting the work of the Association of Qualitative Research and Qualitative Research Journal.

A continued strength of QRJ is its commitment to publishing work which could be described as theoretically and methodologically promiscuous. I would, therefore, like to extend the invitation to prospective authors to continue contributing clamorous voices, committed to proliferating research that pushes at the boundaries of disciplinary practices (Sparkes, 2000).

QRJ endeavours to journey away from prevailing methodological normativities and certainties and, in doing so, is interested in advancing critical conversations around experiences of methodological process, inquiry and representation. It is imperative that those of us involved in engaging and extending debate about what is, and is not, considered as appropriate knowledge and ways of knowing, continue to trouble research practices. Constructing knowledge from the complexityof the unknown habitually involves a questioning of the regimes of truth that naturalise knowledge production and that invariably involves brushing up against the rough trade of normalising academic protocols.Qualitative research practices, located within and emerging from glocalised social and cultural landscapes, offer up possibilities of ‘surveying, mapping, even realms that are yet to come’ (Deleuze & Guattari, 1987, pp. 4–5) and it is, therefore, important that we continue to mess around on the fringes of methodology (Wolfe, 1992).

Vicars, Mark, 2009, 'Editorial', Qualitative Research Journal, vol.9, no.2, p. 1

References

Deleuze, G. & Guattari, F. (1987). A thousand plateaus. Capitalism and schizophrenia. London: Continuum.

Sparkes, A. C. (2000). Autoethnography and narratives of self: Reflections on criteria in action. Sociology of Sport Journal, 17(1), 21–43.

Wolfe, M. (1992). A thrice-told tale: Feminism, postmodernism, and ethnographic responsibility.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.