Abstract

Here are 27 interventions performed by world citizens who wanted to participate in a special panel at InternationalCongress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) 2015 to honor 43 disappeared students from Mexico. This special panel was called upon by César A. Cisneros Puebla to gather reflections during a period of 6 months about the Ayotzinapa massacre. Beginning in the first days of November 2014, an exchange of information and messages began among the colleagues whose reflections are displayed here and others who could not participate for diverse reasons. On Friday May 22, 2015, at 8:00 a.m., these 27 interventions were performed in room Union 314 A of the Illini Union Building at University of Illinois in Urbana–Champaign. Interrogation into a new critical qualitative inquiry provided the backdrop for this exercise of collective participation, one where these qualitative researchers shared their intimate thoughts, feelings, and imagination based on what they had read, watched, and discussed about the news on such a senseless human tragedy. On September 26, 2014, 43 Ayotzinapa teacher education students disappeared in Mexico’s southern state of Guerrero and a very sensitive combat for political and social transformation began. In those days, some other human tragedi