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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.
A History of Qualitative Research in Geography1
A History of Qualitative Research in Geography1
In one sense the documented history of qualitative research in geography starts in 1988, with the publication of John Eyles' and David M. Smith's Qualitative Methods in Human Geography, the first book to explicitly focus solely on this topic. Indeed, the past twenty years (and especially the past ten) have been remarkably productive, with geographers generating more qualitative work and more discussion of qualitative methods than ever before and doing so in increasingly critical, reflexive ways. The rich variety of qualitative geography produced in the past two decades both inspired this volume and is represented here; however, it does not sufficiently constitute a broader history of qualitative research in geography. In fact, ...
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