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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.
Textual and Discourse Analysis
Textual and Discourse Analysis
Introduction
Over the past 25 years, the analysis of discourse has opened up new dimensions within human geography, providing tools through which to interrogate the ‘situatedness of knowledge, the contextuality of discourses and the active role which spatial images play in political life,’ (Hakli, 1998: 333). One possible origin for the discursive turn can be found in the work of Edward Said (1978), who outlined the role of ‘imaginative geographies’ in constituting ontological categories such as Orient and Occident. Since then, papers in human geography that draw on discourse analysis either explicitly (through methodology) or implicitly (through the postpositivist philosophy associated with discourse) have become almost innumerable. For example, in political geography the discursive turn allowed ...
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