Editor’s Introduction

Abstract

Introduction| September 01 2022 Editor’s Introduction: Dis/Comfort and Liminal Negotiations Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a multiple award-winning professor at the University of Florida housed in the Research, Evaluation, and Methodology program. She is the 2022 recipient of the inaugural Egon G. Guba Award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) Qualitative Research Special Interest Group. She is also the 2018 winner of AERA’s Scholars of Color Mid-Career Contribution Award. Her co-authored text with Norman Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, received a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2022) 11 (3): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kakali Bhattacharya; Editor’s Introduction: Dis/Comfort and Liminal Negotiations. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 September 2022; 11 (3): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.3.1 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentDepartures in Critical Qualitative Research Search The world has been confronted by a global pandemic for more than two years, exacerbated by multiple other preexisting, interconnected, structural, and sociocultural inequities and oppression. These conditions have created or exaggerated liminal existence, in which our presence in numerous middle/third spaces illuminates complex negotiations. These liminal spaces are transnational, marked by being here and there, by the blurring of home and work, and by creating hybridized spaces of living and working. They are among the many spaces of in-betweenness that have been identified, exposed, made visible, or thrust into hyper-awareness by the pandemic and other structures of inequity. For some, these liminal spaces of existence intersecting with multiple structures of oppression have been an ever-present reality. Yet an intentional focus on this reality to disrupt the normalization of such oppression creates various experiences of dis/comfort. Experiences of dis/comfort exist in the liminal spaces between comfort and discomfort. This hybridized... You do not currently have access to this content.