Includes bibliographical references and index.

The elephant in the living room : or extending the conversation about the politics of evidence / Norman K. Denzin -- Degrees of denial : as global heating happens should we be educating for sustainable development or sustainable contraction? / David Selby -- Vulnerability : analytical concept or rhetorical idiom? / Frank Furedi -- Risky research or researching risk : the role of ethics review / Pat Sikes and Heather Piper -- Whose truth? Whose (who's in) power? International development, qualitative methodologies and science in Central America / Susan Heald -- "A better place to live" : school history textbooks, nationalist fantasies, and the incarcerating banality of white supremacy / Ken Montgomery -- Narrative research, narrative capital, narrative capability / Michael Watts -- Speaking truth to power : Edward Said and the work of the intellectual / Fazal Rizvi -- Blaspheming self-image : the reinterpretation of African American identity and other disruptions of contemporary master narratives / James Haywood Rolling, Jr. -- The "R" word : voicing race as a critical problem and not just a problem of practice / Paul Warmington.