Invitation to Restorative Practices in Critical Qualitative Research

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Introduction| June 01 2022 Invitation to Restorative Practices in Critical Qualitative Research Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya Kakali Bhattacharya is an award-winning professor at University of Florida housed in Research, Evaluation, and Measurement Program. 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. Substantively, she explores transnational issues of race, class, gender in higher education. She is the 2022 winner of 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 International Congress of Qualitative Research. Correspondence to: kbhattacharya@coe.ufl.edu. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (2022) 11 (1-2): 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.1-2.1 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; Invitation to Restorative Practices in Critical Qualitative Research. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research 1 June 2022; 11 (1-2): 1–5. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/dcqr.2022.11.1-2.1 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 I am at a rural tea estate in Darjeeling, India. It is April 2021. Three new mutated variants of the coronavirus are in the air, creating devastation and death the likes of which I have never seen before. Whole families are dying within days of each other. Diasporic Indians who have flown back to India from the US, Canada, and other parts of the world to tend to sick parents and other family members are themselves becoming ill and dying. Relief groups are struggling to serve the needs of countless citizens begging for oxygen, medicine, and beds for their loved ones. Amid this rampage, the most forgotten are the transwomen, migrant workers, Dalit garbage pickers, custodians, Adivasi (Indigenous) tribes, and unhoused HIV-positive folks, battling the virus with little or no support or priority of care. In the midst of all this suffering, I can’t help but recognize my privilege in... You do not currently have access to this content.