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In what follows, the author directs attention to one slice of pandemic life and its interplay across the emotional geographies of childhood, parenthood, work-life balance, lockdowns, stress, mental health, and youth sport, for it is in these private if banal moments that the "everyday" experiences of the pandemic are made real—and reveal the tensions and dilemmas that individuals tried to negotiate—to differing levels of success.

This performance text situates itself within and against the 2008 Democratic National Convention, Republican National Convention, Election Day, and the January 20, 2009, Inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th president of the United States. Melding popular fictions, media coverage, and the real (and at times fictionalized) voices of the Washington punditry and other contemporary figures, the text presents an alternative voice to the cultural pedagogies at play during the historic election season, underpinned as it was by the eight-year legacy of one of the worst presidencies in U.S. history—a presidency that witnessed a major terrorist attack on American soil, two wars of aggression, the drowning of a major city, and an economic meltdown of the likes not seen since the Great Depression.

This article meditates on the intersection of youth culture and sport under a post-9/11 regime of neoliberal capitalism in the United States. Focusing on diverse sites ranging from Major League Baseball and the Super Bowl to Nike and adidas advertising campaigns and embodied representations of "Native American" mascots, the author draws to the fore inter/connections, dis/continuities, and cultural performances and mis/translations ongoing in the post/modern world, troubling in the process the stability of terms such as "race," "identity," "culture," and "sexuality."

Written against the backdrop of jingoistic patriotism, the "War on Terror" marketing slogan, and the draconian neoconservative agenda currently dominating American cultural politics, the author seeks to police the crisis of these wayward times through a series of narrative collages that intersect with and comment on our current historical conjuncture. Deploying quotes from and engaging in dialogue with voices from popular culture as a means of critiquing the false hall of mirrors that has become the Bush administration's prevailing model of "truth" in post-9/11 America, the author's words stand as a resounding alternative to the unquestioning voices of appeasement currently dominating mainstream corporate media.

This article engages with and challenges the dominant mediated pedagogies circulating in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Interweaving firsthand accounts of the rescue/recovery effort in Louisiana with a critical interrogation of the cultural/political response to the devastation, the text crisscrosses ages, genders, religious, and political affiliations; agreement and disagreement; and racial and class-based logics while painting a disturbing-yet paradoxically hopeful-picture of (post-)Katrina America.

This paper critically interrogates the prevailing contemporary figurations of so-called "urban" popular culture as suggested within and against filmic narratives of sport and the racial logics of late-capitalism. Attempting to forge a contextual understanding of the conflicting representations of (urban) subjectivity, the authors locate "urban" America within broader conjunctural developments that have given rise to its mainstream appellation. They then focus on how urban popular culture is currently represented within broader pop culture formations, especially Hollywood cinema, before concluding with a close read of the Spike Lee film He Got Game, which, they argue, is both an example and a symptom of popular racial representation that is compatible with the politics of a conservative (Black) middle class.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Global Shifts in Qualitative Inquiry -- 1 Absurd Hopescapes: Flipping the Script Through Just Qualitative Research -- 2 Pandora's Box: Revisiting Notions of Hope Through Story -- 3 A Black Quartet II: Collaboratively Performing Transformative Visions -- 4 Developing Civically Engaged Art Education: Interdisciplinary Approaches for a (Post?) Pandemic World -- 5 Collage as Method -- 6 Almost the Lily: Posthuman Performance, Radical Botany, and Trans-species Embodiment -- 7 Indigenous Land-based Research Method: A Journey of Relearning Ceremonies in Rethinking Environmental Science Education -- 8 Intellectual Sharecropping and the Tenure and Promotion Process -- Editor Bios -- List of Contributors -- Index.

"From the prestigious International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry conference, Transformative Visions for Qualitative Inquiry looks at the ever-growing need to focus on social justice and diversity concerns in research in an increasingly fractured and pressured academic and neoliberal institutional environment"--