Contents -- Introduction: The Elephant in the Living Room, OR Advancing the Conversation about the Politics of Evidence -- Section I: Policy Intentions -- 1. Building Confidence in Qualitative Research: Engaging the Demands of Policy -- 2. On Promoting Rigor in Educational Research: Th e Example of the UK's Research Assessment Exercise? -- 3. Isolating Science from the Humanities: The Third Dogma of Educational Research -- 4. A Fine Line: Positioning Qualitative Inquiry in the Wake of the Politics of Evidence -- Section II: Theoretical and Methodological Interruptions -- 5. The Evidentiary Narrative: Notes toward a Symbolic Interactionist Perspective about Evidence -- 6. The Value of a Realist Understanding of Causality for Qualitative Research -- 7. (Post)Feminist Methodology: Getting Lost, OR a Scientificity We Can Bear to Learn from -- 8. Qualitative Researchers' Conceptualizations of the Risks Inherent in Qualitative Interviews -- Section III: Performative Interventions -- 9. Narrative Poetics and Performative Interventions -- 10. From Politicized Knowledge to Standardized Knowing: The Trickle-Down Effect in Schools -- 11. Heartbeats: Exploring the Power of Qualitative Research Expressed as Auto/Ethnographic Performance Texts -- 12. Cancer and Death: A Love Story in Many Voices -- Coda -- Let's Get Personal: First-Generation Autoethnographers Reflect on Writing Personal Narratives -- Index -- About the Authors.