A critical response to conventional, interpretive, and critical conceptions of voice in qualitative inquiry. It focuses on the question, "What does it mean to work the limits of voice?" from theoretical, methodological, and interpretative positions.

This compelling collection will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

Introduction: The Limit of Voice
Part 1: Straining Notions of Voice
1. Against Empathy, Voice, and Authenticity 2. Indigenous Voice, Community, and Epistemic Violence: The Ethnographer's 'Interests' and What 'Interests' the Ethnographer
3. An Impossibly Full Voice
4. Voicing Objections
5. "Soft ears" and Hard Topics: Race, Disciplinarity, and Voice in Higher Education
6. Broken Voices, Dirty Words: On the Productive Insufficiency of Voice
Part 2: Transgressive Voices: Productive Practices
7. The Problem of Speaking for Others
8. Forays Into the Mist: Violences, Voices, Vignettes
9. 'What Am I Doing When I Speak Of This Present?' Voice, Power, and Desire In Truth-Telling
10. Researching and Representing Teacher Voice(s): A Reader Response Approach
11. Life in Kings Cross: A Play of Voices
Afterword: Decentering Voice in Qualitative Inquiry