The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Dydia DeLyser, Steve Herbert, Stuart Aitken, Mike Crang, Linda McDowell, Dydia DeLyser, Steve Herbert, Stuart Aitken, Mike Crang, Linda McDowell

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9781412919913
• eBook ISBN: 9781446206560
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Physical Sciences

Exploring the dynamic growth, change, and complexity of qualitative research in human geography, The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography brings together leading scholars in the field to examine its history, assess the current state of the art, and project future directions.

"In its comprehensive coverage, accessible text, and range of illustrative studies, past and present, the Handbook has established an impressive new standard in presenting qualitative methods to geographers."
- David Ley, University of British Columbia

Moving beyond textbook rehearsals of standard issues, the Handbook shows how empirical details of qualitative research can be linked to the broader social, theoretical, political, and policy concerns of qualitative geographers and the communities within which they work. The book is organized into three sections:

• Part I: Openings engages the history of qualitative geography, and details the ways that research, and the researcher?s place within it, are conceptualized within broader academic, political, and social currents.
• Part II: Encounters and Collaborations describes the different strategies of inquiry that qualitative geographers use, and the tools and techniques that address the challenges that arise in the research process.
• Part III: Making Sense explores the issues and processes of interpretation, and the ways researchers communicate their results.

Retrospective as well as prospective in its approach, this is geography?s first peer-to-peer engagement with qualitative research detailing how to conceive, carry out and communicate qualitative research in the twenty-first century. Suitable for postgraduate students, academics, and practitioners alike, this is the methods resource for researchers in human geography.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction: Engaging Qualitative Geography
• PART I - Openings
• Openings: Introduction
• 2 A History of Qualitative Research in Geography
• 3 ‘Throwntogetherness’: Encounters with Difference and Diversity
• 4 A Taut Rubber Band: Theory and Empirics in Qualitative Geographic Research
• 5 Policy, Research Design and the Socially Situated Researcher
• 6 Mixed Methods: Thinking, Doing, and Asking in Multiple Ways
• PART II - Encounters and Collaborations
• Encounters and Collaborations: Introduction
• 7 Ethnography and Participant Observation
• 8 Autoethnography as Sensibility
• 9 Interviewing: Fear and Liking in the Field
• 10 Life History Interviewing
• 11 Focus Groups as Collaborative Research Performances
• 12 Visual Methods and Methodologies
• 13 Doing Landscape Interpretation
• 14 Caught in the Nick of Time: Archives and Fieldwork
• 15 Textual and Discourse Analysis
• 16 GIS as Qualitative Research: Knowledge, Participatory Politics and Cartographies of Affect
• 17 "A Little Bird Told Me ..." :Approaching Animals Through Qualitative Methods
• 18 Performative, Non-Representational, and Affect-Based Research: Seven Injunctions
• PART III - Making Sense
• Making Sense: Introduction
• 19 Writing Qualitative Geography
• 20 The Art of Geographic Interpretation
• 21 Representing the Other: Negotiating the Personal and the Political
• 22 Major Disasters and GeneralPanics
• 23 Reflections on Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography
• Index