Abstract
This paper discusses the functions and features of performance autoethnography and critical inquiry and offers a range of suggestions for their future development. It calls for an expanded, inclusive view of the self, the social, and the more-than-human world, and it questions what constitutes useful research. It proposes taking a relational turn, approaching inquiry from within, and expanding the range of representation so we can speak more meaningfully about things that matter. It draws our attention to wonder and assets rather than mastery and deficits, and it questions common-sense approaches to scale. Rather than aiming to persuade, it imagines a set of possibilities to foster (re)generative thinking, about inquiry and ICQI itself, as an event that consolidates and catalyzes the field of critical qualitative research.
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