Turning Points in Qualitative Research: Tying Knots in a Handkerchief [Paperback]

Reader outlining key developments in the recent history of interpretive social science methods.This is a book of signposts, of key turning points, of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.' Each article reproduced in this volume, edited by leading qualitative methodologists Lincoln and Denzin, represents one of these turning points in qualitative research, a revolution in the way research is conceptualized and practiced. Authority, representation, legitimation, ethics, methods, presentation, even the purpose of qualitative research, have all been transformed by these articles and the authors who penned them. Bringing together the work of scholars from Haraway to Geertz, Mead to Mishler, Clifford to Conquergood, Laurel Richardson to Miles Richardson, the editors are able trace the changes in the discipline over the past five decades. A necessary addition to the shelf of all researchers, it will also be a key textbook for training the next generation of scholars in the history and trajectory of qualitative research.Part 1 Part One: The Revolution of Representation Part 2 Feminist and Race/Ethnic Studies Discourses: Chapter 3 1. Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective Chapter 4 2. Toward an Afrocentric Feminist Epistemology and Ethics Chapter 5 3. Defining Feminist Ethnography Part 6 The Subaltern Speaks: Chapter 7 4. I, Rigoberta Menchu: An Indian Woman in Guatemala Part 8 The Voice From Nowhere Gets to Speak: Autoethnography and Personal Narratives Chapter 9 5. The Way We Were, Are, and Might Be: Torch Singing as Autoethnography Part 10 Part Two: The Revolution in Authority Chapter 11 6. On Ethnographic Authority Part 12 Part Three: The Revolution of Legitimation Chapter 13 7. Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture Chapter 14 8. Quality in Qualitative Research Chapter 15 9. Issues of Validity in Openly Ideological Research: Between a Rock and a Soft Place Part 16 Part Four: The Etlă‰