Qualitative Methodologies for Geographers: Issues and Debates - Brossura

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0340742267 ISBN 13: 9780340742266

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2001

Riassunto

Over recent years there has been an increasing trend towards the adoption of interpretative and critical approaches to research within human geography. Qualitative methodologies offer a gateway to exploring the processes shaping our social worlds, allowing the researcher to engage with the lives and experiences of others through interviews, group discussions or participant observation.



This book is a critical introduction to qualitative methodologies for those preparing to undertake their own qualitative research, or who need to better understand the processes to evaluate and interpret the geographic research of others. Its aim is to demystify the process of doing qualitative methodologies through the discussion and illustration of research in practice. Each chapter presents an insight into the author's own experiences of using qualitative research across a number of projects, and reflects on the dilemmas, thought-processes and questions involved. The reader is invited to engage in the issues and debates thrown up by these examples and, in doing so, to deepen their understanding of the research processes which may be applied to their own projects.

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Recensione

An excellent resource and one that can be recommended both to senior undergraduates and postgraduate students. Well-written and sensibly structured.
Geographical Association

Contenuti

Introduction
Part 1 Research Design. Doing qualitative research: from interpretation to action
At the drawing board: developing a research design
Negotiating the personal and the political in critical qualitative research. Part 2: Interviewing. Interviewing couples, playing with their children
Cross-cultural research: issues of power, positionality and 'race'
Insiders and
or outsiders: positionality, theory and praxis. Part 3: Group discussions. The focus group experience
Working with groups
Part 4 Participation observation and ethnography. Fieldwork in the trenches: participant observation in a conflict area
Multiple methods and research relations with children in Rural Bolivia
Negotiating different ethnographic contexts and building geographical knowledges: empirical examples from mental health research
Part 5 Interpretative strategies. Making sense of qualitative data
Field work: making sense of group interviews
Interpretation, representation, positionality: issues in field research in human geography
Part 6 Writing. Writing conversation
From where I write...
Part 7 Vignettes. Schooling for girls in rural South India
Black music and identity
Househusbands and male identity
Representations of race in 'Goodness Gracious Me'
Participant observation in the retail workplace.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0340742267
• ISBN 13: 9780340742266
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Redattore: Limb Melanie, Dwyer Claire
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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