INTRODUCTION

Writing has never been, nor will ever be, despite many attempts by scholars, to be an ahistorical, a priori, uninterested, apolitical thing. Writing qualitative research is not simply about making research clear and accessible or to make research seem less complicated and more aesthetic. Writing in qualitative inquiry is a practice, or a collection of practices that involves a series of doings. Qualitative inquiry is also a field in its own right and, as such, has many historical influences, and language and writing have thus played a key role in the field’s history. Language was doomed to collapse under the weight of these demands and writing about such studies proved to be informative and descriptive, but ultimately limiting, deleterious, racists, unreal, and dehumanizing. The Crisis of Representation has had the most significant impact on the field of qualitative research because it shows that language cannot or should not be asked to represent social worlds.