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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. 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 and queries 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.
Life History Interviewing
Life History Interviewing
Introduction
Life history interviewing is a research method that is designed to record an individual's biography in his or her own words. It is part of a wide range of biographical methods that also includes reminiscence and autobiography. Life histories provide a means of accessing people's narrative accounts of their lives and of the changes that have occurred within living memory. Starting with a description of the origins of life history research, this chapter will detail the life history method and consider the issues associated with interpreting life stories. The chapter will place particular emphasis on the relationship between life history and narrative approaches to identity (cf. Somers, 1994). It will discuss ...
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