Editor’s Introduction

Abstract

Introduction| June 01 2023 Editor’s Introduction: What Does This Moment Ask of Me? Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya is an award-winning professor at the University of Florida housed in the Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program. Substantively, she explores transnational issues of race, class, and gender in higher education. Her work has made spaces in interdisciplinary de/colonizing work and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as gateways for cultivating depth, integrity, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights.She is the 2022 winner of the American Educational Research Association’s (AERA) inaugural Guba award for Outstanding Contributions to Qualitative Research from the Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (SIG). She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid-Career Scholar of Color Award. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative, has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA (SIG 168) and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from the International Congress of Qualitative Research. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2023) 12 (2): 1–4. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.2.1 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kakali Bhattacharya; Editor’s Introduction: What Does This Moment Ask of Me?. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 June 2023; 12 (2): 1–4. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2023.12.2.1 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 When the noise of the day winds down, and I am taking stock of things at night, I ask myself if I have done everything I could to meet the moments of my day from a place of possibilities, expanded consciousness, generosity of spirit, and generativity. I confess that I am unable to do all of these things consistently. But taking stock of how I met the moments allows me to understand why I do the work that I do and where I have to do more work. At this moment, the world remains simultaneously in many forms of crisis and possibilities. In my home state of Florida, a bill, HB 999, will be passed that challenges academic freedom in higher education and is poised to remove faculty governance in hiring our colleagues. The bill attacks diversity, equity, and inclusivity as radical, leftist propaganda, creating multiple barriers to doing this... You do not currently have access to this content.