The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Geography

Introduction: Engaging Qualitative Geography - Dydia DeLyser et al PART ONE: OPENINGS Introduction - Dydia DeLyser A History of Qualitative Research in Geography - Meghan Cope 'Throwntogetherness': Encounters with Difference and Diversity - Stuart C Aitken A Taut Rubber Band: Theory and Empirics in Qualitative Geographic Research - Steve Herbert Policy, Research Design and the Socially Situated Researcher - Kari B Jensen and Amy K Glasmeier Mixed Methods: Thinking, Doing and Asking in Multiple Ways - Sarah Elwood PART TWO: ENCOUNTERS AND COLLABORATIONS Introduction - Steve Herbert Ethnography and Participant Observation - Annette Watson and Karen E Till Autoethnography as Sensibility - David Butz Interviewing: Fear and Liking in the Field - Linda McDowell Life History Interviewing - Peter Jackson and Polly Russell Focus Groups as Collaborative Research Performances - Fernando J Bosco and Thomas Herman Visual Methods and Methodologies - Mike Crang Doing Landscape Interpretation - Nancy Duncan and James Duncan Caught in the Nick of Time: Archives and Fieldwork - Hayden Lorimer Textual and Discourse Analysis - Jason Dittmer GIS as Qualitative Research: Knowledge, Participatory Politics and Cartographies of Affect - Stuart C Aitken and Mei-Po Kwan 'A Little Bird Told Me ...': Approaching Animals through Qualitative Methods - Mona Seymour and Jennifer Wolch Performative, Non-Representational and Affect-Based Research: Seven Injunctions - J D Dewsbury PART THREE: MAKING SENSE Introduction - Mike Crang Writing Qualitative Geography - Dydia DeLyser The Art of Geographic Interpretation - Sara MacKian Representing the Other: Negotiating the Personal and the Political - Garth Myers Major Disasters and General Panics: Methodologies of Activism, Affinity and Emotion in the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army - Paul Routledge Reflections on Teaching Qualitative Methods in Geography - Deborah G Martin

[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