Qualitative Methods Books

New and Published Books

1. Multi-Sited Ethnography

   Problems and Possibilities in the Translocation of Research Methods

   Edited by Simon Coleman, Pauline von Hellermann

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   This collection of essays emerged out of intense conversations on multi-sited ethnography, prompted by a workshop held at the University of Sussex that brought together researchers from different institutional backgrounds and affiliations in Europe, the United States and Africa – including George...

   Published May 22nd 2013 by Routledge
2. Routledge International Handbook of Qualitative Nursing Research

   Edited by Cheryl Tatano Beck

   Qualitative research, once on the fringes, now plays a central part in advancing nursing and midwifery knowledge, contributing to the development of the evidence base for healthcare practice. Divided into four parts, this authoritative handbook contains over forty chapters on the state of the art...

   Published April 10th 2013 by Routledge
3. Methodologies on the Move

   The Transnational Turn in Empirical Migration Research

   Edited by Anna Amelina, Thomas Faist, Devrimsel D. Nergiz

   Series: Ethnic and Racial Studies

   This volume establishes a new agenda for approaches to migration research and the corresponding methodologies. A wide range of international contributors focus on the question of how to overcome the so-called 'methodological nationalism' within empirical studies on migration. They address two main...

   Published April 9th 2013 by Routledge
4. Conducting Terrorism Field Research

   A Guide

   Edited by Adam Dolnik

   Series: Contemporary Terrorism Studies

   This book offers a detailed and practically oriented guide to the challenges of conducting terrorist fieldwork. The past decade has seen an explosion of research into terrorism. However, field research on terrorism has traditionally been surrounded by many myths, and has been called anything from "...

   Published February 26th 2013 by Routledge
5. Water in a Dry Land

   Place-Learning Through Art and Story

   By Margaret Somerville

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   Water in a Dry Land is a story of research about water as a source of personal and cultural meaning. The site of this exploration is the iconic river system which forms the networks of natural and human landscapes of the Murray-Darling Basin, Australia. In the current geological era of human...

   Published February 18th 2013 by Routledge
6. The Challenges of Being a Rural Gay Man

   Coping with Stigma

   By Deborah Bray Preston, Anthony R. D'Augelli

   Series: Routledge Advances in Sociology

   Gay men often face struggles in the conservative world of rural life, due to the pervasive social stigmas associated with homosexuality and the lack of anonymity in a small-town setting. In this book, Preston and D’Augelli present the results of in-depth interviews and surveys with rural gay men,...

   Published December 18th 2012 by Routledge
7. Concrete and Dust: Mapping the Sexual Terrains of Los Angeles

   By Jeanine Marie Minge, Amber Lynn Zimmerman

   Series: Innovative Ethnographies

   Concrete and Dust focuses on the performative nature of sexualized identity in Hollywood, the people that live in its underbelly and surrounding valleys, the sexual geographies of the place, and the ways in which sexual agency is mapped on the body and in consciousness. The cultural turn in...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
8. Sport, Difference and Belonging

   Conceptions of Human Variation in British Sport

   By James Rosbrook-Thompson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

   This book combines historical and ethnographic components in examining the ideas about human variation subscribed to by coaches, commentators and sportspeople themselves. The book begins by interrogating the idea of the ‘impulsive’ black sportsman (and the ‘impulsive’ black male more generally),...

   Published December 10th 2012 by Routledge
9. Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research

   A Reflexive Approach

   Edited by Louise Phillips, Marianne Kristiansen, Marja Vehviläinen, Ewa Gunnarsson

   Series: Routledge Advances in Research Methods

   Collaborative research embraces a multiplicity of practices in which social actors are invited to participate in the research process as co-producers of knowledge. But what is actually meant by “co-production” in collaborative research? Knowledge and Power in Collaborative Research presents a...

   Published October 18th 2012 by Routledge
10. Changing Lives, Changing Drug Journeys

    Drug taking decisions from adolescence to adulthood

    By Lisa Williams

    Series: Routledge Advances in Ethnography

    This book describes how a group of young people make decisions about drug taking. It charts the decision making process of recreational drug takers and non-drug takers as they mature from adolescence into young adulthood. With a focus upon their perceptions of different drugs, it situates their...

    Published August 13th 2012 by Routledge