Preface
Introduction: Invitation to the Craft of Qualitative Research, by 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, by Kalyani Thurairajah
Chapter 2: The Role of Unpredictability in Ethnographic Fieldwork, by Mark S. Dolson
Chapter 3: Collateral Damage: Preparing Your Friends and Family for Your Ethnography, by Tony Christensen
Chapter 4: The Story of Dr. Charles Smith: An Exercise in Rolling Thematic Analysis, by Chris McCormick
SECTION II: NAVIGATING ETHICAL DILEMMAS
Chapter 5: Living Your Ethics: “It’s” Not Just a Dusty Document, by Kerstin Roger and Javier Mignone
Chapter 6: Observing Teens: Negotiating Power and Opportunity During Field Research, by Katherine Irwin
Chapter 7: Doing Research Undercover: Interviewing Protesters, by Gül Çalışkan
Chapter 8: Social Regulation and Ethics in Research, by 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, by Lesley J. Bikos
Chapter 10: Politics and Tensions of Doing Transgender Research: Lessons Learned by a Straight-White-Cisgender Man, by Matthew S. Johnston
Chapter 11: Researching Truck Drivers: Difficult Data Collection and Proving Oneself Amidst a Culture of Suspicious Masculinity, by Michael A. Fleming
Chapter 12: “You’re an Alien to Us”: Autoethnographic Accounts of Two Researchers’ Experiences in an Organizational Setting, by 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, by Justin Wright
Chapter 14: Navigating Emotions While Establishing Trust and Rapport in Autoethnography, by Colleen McMillan
Chapter 15: Personal Reputation as an “In” to Field Research Settings, by Steven W. Kleinknecht
Chapter 16: “You Are Not Allowed to Be Here…”: Ethnography of Rejection, Shame, and Hurt, by Thaddeus Müller
Chapter 17: Doing Research on Behind-the-Scenes Phenomena: Entering the Female Escort Industry, by Magdalena Wojciechowska
SECTION V: DOING OBSERVATION
Chapter 18: “Going Through the (E)motions”: Attending to Social Location and Emotionality in Observational Studies of Police, by Crystal Weston and Carrie B. Sanders
Chapter 19: Reconsidering Relations in the Field: Attending to Dominance Processes in the Ethnographic Encounter, by Scott Grills
Chapter 20: Minding the Gap at the Limits of Observation, by Kritee Ahmed
Chapter 21: Tips and Tricks for Writing Reflexive Field Notes When Doing Team- Based Rapid Ethnographic Research, by Krystal Kehoe MacLeod
SECTION VI: DOING INTERVIEWS
Chapter 22: “Show and Tell”: Using Objects as Visual Interview Guides in Qualitative Interviewing, by Kathleen Steeves and Deana Simonetto
Chapter 23: Interactional Strategies of Interview Participants and Their Sense of Self, by Deborah K. van den Hoonaard
Chapter 24: “Opening Access” to Open-Access Editors: Communication Technologies in Long Distance Interviewing, by Taylor Price and Antony Puddephatt
Chapter 25: Conducting Phenomenological Interviews, by Ellen Rose
Chapter 26: A Reflection on Challenges and Negotiation in the Context of International Fieldwork, by Abhar Rukh Husain
SECTION VII: COLLECTING OTHER FORMS OF DATA
Chapter 27: Listening to Streets and Watching Paint Dry: Collecting Other Forms of Data, by Deborah Landry
Chapter 28: Doing Archival Research, by Ariane Hanemaayer
Chapter 29: “Every Corner Tells a Story”: Using Neighbourhood Walks and GPS to Understand Children’s Sense of Place, by Bree Akesson
Chapter 30: Ethnography in Inaccessible Fields: Drawing on Visual Approaches to Understand the Private Space of the Home, by Dawn Mannay
Chapter 31: Collecting Social Media Data in Qualitative Research, by 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, by Amber Gazso and Katherine Bischoping
Chapter 33: Making Sense of Your Data: From Paralysis to Theoretical Engagement, by Michael Adorjan
Chapter 34: “Dilemmas of Voice” in Community-Based HIV Research, by Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo
Chapter 35: Analyzing Materiality, by Carrie B. Sanders and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott
Chapter 36: Tree Drawings: Visual Analysis and Representation of Queer Activist Life History Research, by Susan Diane
SECTION IX: LEAVING THE FIELD
Chapter 37: Leaving the Field/Can You Leave the Field?, by Jeffrey van den Scott
Chapter 38: Negotiating Tensions in Exiting the Field of Critical Qualitative Research, by Sarah Benbow and Jodi Hall
Chapter 39: Leaving the Field Trajectories: Researching Hasidic Jews, by William Shaffir
Chapter 40: On (Still) Being Emotionally Attached to the Field, by Nichole Edwards
SECTION X: DISSEMINATING YOUR FINDINGS TO SCHOLARS AND OTHER AUDIENCES
Chapter 41: Communicating Your Ideas and Publishing Readable Texts, by J. I. (Hans) Bakker
Chapter 42: Dissemination and Social Justice, by Snežana Ratković and Bharati Sethi
Chapter 43: Promoting Qualitative Research in the Public Sphere: Lessons Learned from Online Criticisms, by Chad Walker
Chapter 44: After the Fine Cut: Disseminating Video-Based Research, by Sarah Abbott and Phillip Vannini
Chapter 45: Disseminating Qualitative Research in Media, by Christopher J. Schneider
Contributors
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