"We depart from shorthand comedic snapshots of the Sunshine State by curating methodologically thick interpretive analyses that take seriously its cultural politics, people, and popular forms."
"Just as I attempt to conjure the ordinariness of planetary unraveling, each of the contributors to this special issue casts light on other aspects of what it feels like to dwell on earth at this particular moment."
"What determines the worth of an academic idea in any field is controlled by its gatekeepers, and in disciplines in the West, they have always been white."
UC Press is pleased to announce that Departures in Critical Qualitative Research's editor Devika Chawla's inaugural double special issue, Migrations/Borders and Margins, has been selected as the winner of the National Communication Association's 2019 Ethnography Division Best Special Journal Issue A