Endarkened Narrative Inquiry: Love as an Agent of Justice (Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research)

Endarkened Narrative Inquiry reimagines inquiry as a relational, embodied, and ethical practice.Drawing together theory, lived experience, and guided reflection, it challenges detached models of research and invites more accountable, responsive ways of listening, interpreting, writing, and representing knowledge. Conceptual grounding is paired with reflective prompts that ask readers to examine positionality, responsibility, and representation in knowledge production.Reflexivity, embodiment, and spirituality are taken up not as supplements to inquiry but as integral to how knowledge is formed, interpreted, and carried forward.In this way, the text supports work that is more attentive, accountable, and grounded in the realities it seeks to engage. Written for researchers, scholars, graduate students, educators, and reflective practitioners, this book will resonate most with those working across qualitative, narrative, arts-based, and culturally responsive traditions.It speaks to those n