Fostering Social Justice Through Qualitative Inquiry Second Edition addresses the differences that a social justice stance requires from the researcher, then discusses how major theories and qualitative methodologies are employed to create social justice in both the process and products of qualitative research.

Corey W. Johnson is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. He is a feminist, qualitative researcher, and scholar who focuses on power relations between dominant and non-dominant populations. Corey uses his research alongside teaching and service, engaging in advocacy, activism, civic-engagement, service-learning, and community partnerships, to create change and unique learning opportunities for individuals and institutions. He has also written the methodological text, Collective Memory Work: Learning with and from Others.

Diana C. Parry is a Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She is a feminist scholar who engages in research that advocates that the personal is political while focusing on women's health and leisure. Diana intentionally uses her research and service to advance a social justice agenda by advocating for a holistic understanding and conceptualization of health for women. She has also recently written Feminisms in Leisure Studies.

1. Contextualizing Qualitative Research for Social Justice

2. Snapshot Chapters

2.1. Marxism / Class

2.2. 'This is what a feminist researcher looks like': Enacting feminist theories and politics for social justice

2.3. Inquiry for Justice: Critical Race Theory and Qualitative Research

2.4. LGBT Theory/ Queer Theory

2.5. Poised Against Ableism: Critical Disability Theory (CDT), Justice, and Verbing to Disablement

2.6. Decolonization

2.7. Post-Structural Thought

2.8. Posthumanism and Social Justice Research: Skating to Freedom

3. Common Features of Qualitative Inquiry

4. Leaning into the Ambiguity of Liberation: Phenomenology for Social Justice

5. Chapter 5: Discovering Grounded Theories for Social Justice

6. One Day on Earth: Featuring Social Justice in Case Study Research

7. Ethnographic research for social justice: A critical engagement with homelessness

in a public park

8. Writing Ourselves Back into the Story: Using Autoethnography to Advance

Social Justice

9. Evocative Inquiry: Saving the World, One Story at a Time

10. Moving Forward, Looking Back: Historical Inquiry for Social Justice

11. Participatory Action Research: Democratizing Knowledge for Social Justice

12. Resurrecting Recollections: Collective Memory Work for Dismantling Discourses

of Power

13. Digital Methods for Social Justice

14. "Just Give it Up": Embracing the Immanence of Post Qualitative Inquiry

15. The Future of Social Justice: Paradigm Proliferation