Refusal for Survival and the Cultivation of Discomfort in Hegemonic Academia AND Problematizing English as Master(y) Language for Qualitative Research and

This chapter argues that hegemony will continue to function as a problematic political and economic force while people also desire to avoid hegemony’s accompanying deficit discourses. It explores hegemonic qualitative research practices as prompts and catalysts for strategies of productive resistance, including different uses of minor languages. The chapter discusses resistance as a survival strategy and introduce uses of minor languages as creative openings beyond representative functions of hegemonic language in the qualitative inquiry field; namely English. It argues that hegemony in qualitative research can prompt scholars to create more creative approaches and survival practices, build from the generative sense of discomfort, and utilize the visibility of the invisible in more productive ways. The chapter explores different relational dilemmas associated with resistance and hegemonic academic practices.