An edited collection packed with advice, exercises, and anecdotes, The Craft of Qualitative Research is a practical, introductory guide that will develop students’ skills and confidence in qualitative research. Accessible in style and tone, this text equips students with the tools needed to manage and overcome challenges, emotions, biases, and power dynamics in the field. To encourage experiential learning, 45 concise chapters include real-world examples and practical exercises from scholars and professionals in varying disciplines and stages of career. Each section begins with an editors’ introduction then takes readers through the steps of successful qualitative research: from planning projects ethically and entering the field, to collecting and analyzing data, and lastly, to exiting the field and disseminating findings. Students in research-reliant disciplines, particularly sociology, anthropology, criminology, social work, and health studies will benefit from this distinctly practical resource. Reviews: "As fine a collection as I have come across in quite a while. Methodological handbooks are not supposed to make for riveting reading, but this one does, perhaps because of the depth of experience among its contributors, their utter respect for the craft, and their willingness to write honestly about the challenges they have faced. More than a guide, this collection will inspire those seeking to hone their skills and empower those embarking on qualitative or ethnographic research journeys of their own.” —Dr. Dorothy Pawluch, Department of Sociology, McMaster University “The editors of The Craft of Qualitative Research have truly captured a rich breadth and depth of lived qualitative research experience through authors’ stories that are framed around the research enterprise, from relationship-building to research design, from ethical considerations to knowledge creation and sharing, along with provocative questions for readers to consider in their own work. It is an accessible book that should be read by any novice researcher in tandem with a ‘how to’ qualitative methods text, giving readers an intimate view of ‘what it’s like’ when you do such inquiry.” —Dr. Heather Castleden, Canada Research Chair in Reconciling Relations for Health, Environments, and Communities, Queen’s University Table of Contents:
Preface xiii Introduction: Invitation to the Craft of Qualitative Research 1 Steven W. Kleinknecht, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, and Carrie B. Sanders SECTION I. PLANNING YOUR PROJECT
Chapter 1. “The Person Behind the Research:” Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Process 10 Kalyani Thurairajah Chapter 2. The Role of Unpredictability in Ethnographic Fieldwork 17 Mark S. Dolson Chapter 3. Collateral Damage: Preparing Your Friends and Family for Your Ethnography 25 Tony Christensen Chapter 4. The Story of Dr. Charles Smith: An Exercise in Rolling Thematic Analysis 32 Chris McCormick SECTION II. NAVIGATING ETHICAL DILEMMAS
Chapter 5. Living Your Ethics: “It’s” Not Just a Dusty Document 46 Kerstin Roger and Javier Mignone Chapter 6. Observing Teens: Negotiating Power and Opportunity During Field Research 53 Katherine Irwin Chapter 7. Doing Research Undercover: Interviewing Protesters 60 Gül Çaliskan Chapter 8. Social Regulation and Ethics in Research 67 Will van den Hoonaard SECTION III. MANAGING INSIDER/OUTSIDER STATUS WHILE GAINING ACCESS
Chapter 9. An Insider’s Perspective on Research with Policewomen in Canada 78 Lesley J. Bikos Chapter 10. Politics and Tensions of Doing Transgender Research: Lessons Learned by a Straight-White-Cisgender Man 85 Matthew S. Johnston Chapter 11. Researching Truck Drivers: Difficult Data Collection and Proving Oneself Amidst a Culture of Suspicious Masculinity 92 Michael A. Fleming Chapter 12. “You’re an Alien to Us”: Autoethnographic Accounts of Two Researchers’ Experiences in an Organizational Setting 98 Cathlene Hillier and Emily Milne SECTION IV. EXPERIENCING EMOTIONS WHILE ESTABLISHING TRUST AND RAPPORT
Chapter 13. Using a Qualitative Approach in Applied Military Personnel Research 107 Justin Wright Chapter 14. Navigating Emotions While Establishing Trust and Rapport in Autoethnography 114 Colleen McMillan Chapter 15. Personal Reputation as an “In” to Field Research Settings 121 Steven W. Kleinknecht Chapter 16. “You Are Not Allowed to Be Here…”: Ethnography of Rejection, Shame, and Hurt 127 Thaddeus Müller Chapter 17. Doing Research on Behind-the-Scenes Phenomena: Entering the Female Escort Industry 133 Magdalena Wojciechowska SECTION V. DOING OBSERVATION
Chapter 18. “Going Through the (E)motions”: Attending to Social Location and Emotionality in Observational Studies of Police 144 Crystal Weston and Carrie B. Sanders Chapter 19.Reconsidering Relations in the Field: Attending to Dominance Processes in the Ethnographic Encounter 152 Scott Grills Chapter 20. Minding the Gap at the Limits of Observation 160 Kritee Ahmed Chapter 21. Tips and Tricks for Writing Reflexive Field Notes When Doing Team- Based Rapid Ethnographic Research 167 Krystal Kehoe MacLeod SECTION VI. DOING INTERVIEWS
Chapter 22. “Show and Tell”: Using Objects as Visual Interview Guides in Qualitative Interviewing 178 Kathleen Steeves and Deana Simonetto Chapter 23. Interactional Strategies of Interview Participants and Their Sense of Self 185 Deborah K. van den Hoonaard Chapter 24. “Opening Access” to Open-Access Editors: Communication Technologies in Long Distance Interviewing 193 Taylor Price and Antony Puddephatt Chapter 25. Conducting Phenomenological Interviews 200 Ellen Rose Chapter 26. A Reflection on Challenges and Negotiation in the Context of International Fieldwork 207 Abhar Rukh Husain SECTION VII. COLLECTING OTHER FORMS OF DATA
Chapter 27.Listening to Streets and Watching Paint Dry: Collecting Other Forms of Data 218 Deborah Landry Chapter 28. Doing Archival Research 225 Ariane Hanemaayer Chapter 29. “Every Corner Tells a Story”: Using Neighbourhood Walks and GPS to Understand Children’s Sense of Place 232 Bree Akesson Chapter 30. Ethnography in Inaccessible Fields: Drawing on Visual Approaches to Understand the Private Space of the Home 237 Dawn Mannay Chapter 31. Collecting Social Media Data in Qualitative Research 245 Meghan Lynch and Catherine Mah SECTION VIII. ANALYZING YOUR DATA
Chapter 32. Reframing an Awkward Moment: A Comparison of Two Analytic Strategies for Being Reflexive 256 Amber Gazso and Katherine Bischoping Chapter 33. Making Sense of Your Data: From Paralysis to Theoretical Engagement 263 Michael Adorjan Chapter 34. “Dilemmas of Voice” in Community-Based HIV Research 271 Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo Chapter 35. Analyzing Materiality 278 Carrie B. Sanders and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott Chapter 36. Tree Drawings: Visual Analysis and Representation of Queer Activist Life History Research 288 Susan Diane SECTION IX. LEAVING THE FIELD
Chapter 37. Leaving the Field/Can You Leave the Field? 304 Jeffrey van den Scott Chapter 38. Negotiating Tensions in Exiting the Field of Critical Qualitative Research 311 Sarah Benbow and Jodi Hall Chapter 39. Leaving the Field Trajectories: Researching Hasidic Jews 319 William Shaffir Chapter 40. On (Still) Being Emotionally Attached to the Field 326 Nichole Edwards SECTION X. DISSEMINATING YOUR FINDINGS TO SCHOLARS AND OTHER AUDIENCES
Chapter 41. Communicating Your Ideas and Publishing Readable Texts 336 J. I. (Hans) Bakker Chapter 42. Dissemination and Social Justice 342 Snežana Ratkovic and Bharati Sethi Chapter 43. Promoting Qualitative Research in the Public Sphere: Lessons Learned from Online Criticisms Audiences 350 Chad Walker Chapter 44. After the Fine Cut: Disseminating Video-Based Research 358 Sarah Abbott and Phillip Vannini Chapter 45. Disseminating Qualitative Research in Media 365 Christopher J. Schneider Contributors 373 Index 383 About the Editors:
Steven W. Kleinknecht is an associate professor of sociology at Brescia University College. He is also an approvals editor for the Qualitative Sociology Review. His qualitative research has focused on the computer hacker and Old Order Mennonite subcultures. With Antony Puddephatt and William Shaffir, he co-edited Ethnographies Revisited (2009). He has been involved in the Qualitative Analysis Conference as a participant, session chair, and organizer for the past 18 years. Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott is an assistant professor of sociology at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Her work centres around space, place, and time, and argues for a sociology of walls. Her empirical focus has been the introduction of housing in Arviat, Nunavut. She has published in such journals as the Journal of Contemporary Ethnography and American Behavioral Scientist. She is currently an associate editor for the Journal of Empirical Research on Human Research Ethics. Carrie B. Sanders is an associate professor of criminology at Wilfrid Laurier University. She is an interpretive theorist and qualitative researcher with an interest in studying policing, technology, police cultures, and surveillance. Her research has received funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and has been published in high impact journals, such as British Journal of Criminology, Policing and Society, and Gender and Society.
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