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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.
Openings: Introduction
Openings: Introduction
Nobody, of course, is born knowing how to conceptualize research and plan for its eventualities. Still, too often when we do begin to plan our own research, a focus on a research ‘topic’ overrides attention to methods and methodology. But the methodologically articulate qualitative research of the twenty-first century demands care, caution, and attention to issues of why and how we carry out our research the way we do, not just what we do it ‘on.’ My own case in undertaking PhD research was one of methodological kismet, for when I began my career as a graduate student in the early 1990s I still had no idea that there was such a thing as ‘research design,’ and I ...
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