Qualitative methodologies for geographers : issues and debates

Abstract

1. Introduction: doing qualitative research in geography / Claire Dwyer and Melanie Limb -- pt. 1. Research design -- 2. Doing qualitative research: from interpretation to action / Susan Smith -- 3. At the drawing board: developing a research design / Gill Valentine -- 4. Negotiating the personal and the political in critical qualitative research / Audrey Kobayashi -- pt. 2. Interviewing -- 5. Shared lives: interviewing couples, playing with their children / Stuart Aitken -- 6. Cross-cultural research: issues of power, positionality and 'race' / Tracey Skelton -- 7. 'Insiders' and/or 'outsiders': positionality, theory and praxis / Robina Mohammad -- pt. 3. Group discussions -- 8. The focus-group experience / Tracey Bedford and Jacquelin Burgess -- 9. Working with groups / James Kneale -- pt. 4. Participant observation and ethnography -- 10. Fieldwork in the trenches: participant observation in a conflict area / Lorraine Dowler -- 11. Multiple methods and research relations with children in rural Bolivia / Samantha Punch -- 12. Negotiating different ethnographic contexts and building geographical knowledges: empirical examples from mental-health research / Hester Parr -- pt. 5. Interpretative strategies -- 13. Making sense of qualitative data / Peter Jackson -- 14. Filed work: making sense of group interviews / Mike Crang -- 15. Interpretation, representation, positionality: issues in field research in human geography / David Ley and Alison Mountz -- pt. 6. Writing -- 16. Writing conversation / Katy Bennett and Pam Shurmer-Smith -- 17. From where I write: the place of positionality in qualitative writing / Ruth Butler -- pt. 7. Vignettes -- 1. Schooling and striving for success: an investigation into the aspirations of girls attending high school in rural south India / Katharine Moss -- 2. Being Asian, being British and being into black music: the influence of black music on hybrid identities of young South Asian wom