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The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Beschreibung

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.

"In its comprehensive coverage, accessible text, and range of illustrative studies, past and present, the Handbook has established an impressive new standard in presenting qualitative methods to geographers."
- David Ley, University of British Columbia

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 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.

Autor

Dydia DeLyser is Assistant Professor of Geography at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. She teaches a graduate seminar in Advanced Qualitative Methods, and another seminar on Writing (for students pursuing qualitative theses and dissertations). As one of the organizers of the Qualitative Research Specialty Group of the AAG, she has served as its Student Paper Competition Director, as Board Member and as Secretary/Treasurer. In addition to a number of other works, she has published on her "insider" fieldwork in a California ghost town, on the art and craft of writing, and on her writing seminar. Together with Paul Starrs she co-edited a collection of 57 essays entitled Doing Fieldwork (published by the Geographical Review in 2001). Stuart Aitken is Professor of Geography at San Diego State University. He has been teaching a class in qualitative methods in geography since 1994. Stuart′s books include Geographies of Young People: The Morally Contested Spaces of Identity (Routledge 2001), Family Fantasies and Community Space (Rutgers University Press, 1998), Place, Space, Situation and Spectacle: A Geography of Film (with Leo Zonn, Rowman and Littlefield, 1994) and Putting Children in Their Place (1994, Washington DC: Association of American Geographers). He has also published widely in academic journals including the Annals of the AAG, Geographical Review, Antipode, The Professional Geographer, Transactions of the IBG, CaGIS, Society and Space, The Journal of Geography and Environment and Planning A as well as various edited book collections. Stuart is past co-editor of The Professional Geographer and current North American editor of Children′s Geographies. Mike Crang is a Reader in geography at the University of Durham. He has taught ethnography, focus groups, visual methods and qualitative analysis to students at all levels from year one to graduate student, in Britain, Sweden, Denmark and Finland. With Ian Cook he coauthored CATMOG 55 entitled Doing Ethnographies in 1995 which is currently being expanded for publication with SAGE, and he has published papers on qualitative analysis in Environment & Planning A, and chapters on analysis in Whatmore & Pryke Using Social Theory, in Limb, M, & Dwyer, C Qualitative Methods for Geographers, and Flowerdew R. & Martin D. (eds) Methods in Human Geography: A guide for Students Doing a Research Project, chapters on visual methods in May, J. Blunt, A., Gruffud, P., Ogborne M & Pinder, D.(eds) Practising Cultural Geography, and Crouch D. ed. Leisure /tourism geographies: and participant observation in Hughes A., Morris, C. & Seymour S. Ethnography & Rural Research. Steve Herbert is an Associate Professor at the University of Washington, where he holds a joint appointment with the Department of Geography and the Law, Societies and Justice Program. He has published one book, Policing Space. Territoriality and the Los Angeles Police Department (University of Minnesota Press, 1997) and several journal articles, in both geography and socio-legal journals. He is working at present on a book manuscript with the working title, The Unbearable Lightness of Community. Police, Urban Residents and the Nature of State-Society Relations. He is also the author of several journal articles focusing on the use of ethnography as a methodology. Linda McDowell is Professor of Human Geography in the School of Geography and the Environment at the University of Oxford and has worked in a number of other British universities, in each of which she has taught qualitative methods to a range of audiences.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: SAGE Publications Ltd / Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 877g
• ISBN-13: 9781412919913
• ISBN-10: 1412919916
• Artikelnr.: 26014823

Rezensionen

[The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography] demystifies the complexities that surround qualitative work in the field and is an important addition on the shelves of geography books. This timely publication is indicative of the maturity of qualitative research within the community of geographers. By assembling the work of leading geographers who have chosen qualitative methods as a key means to accomplish their research, this volume also forwards dialogue between geographers and their colleagues in the humanities and other social sciences. It is a high-level, interesting and well-read book that will benefit graduates students, academics and practitioners. It is highly recommended for scholars in the various fields of human geography
Orna Blumen
Geography Research Forum

In its comprehensive coverage, accessible text, and range of illustrative studies, past and present, the Handbook has established an impressive new standard in presenting qualitative methods to geographers
David Ley
University of British Columbia