Qualitative Research in Malaysia by Chong, Su Li;

Short description:

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm, focusing on researchers in Malaysia. A useful guide for qualitative research methodology educators and researchers in the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.

Long description:

This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm. It showcases how researchers in Malaysia, who are often expected to acquiesce to mainstream ways of designing, conducting and disseminating research, rise above methodological hegemony to carve out a different but meaningful path in order to represent the voice of the voiceless.

In this book, accounts of paradigmatic shifts, applications of philosophical rigour and attention to values-laden inquiry demonstrate how qualitative research can be successfully conducted and reported, revealing insights which profoundly re-shape research design and address ethical sensitivities in social research. The conclusions drawn from the chapters form the rallying cry of qualitative researchers who acknowledge that it is their responsibility to enlighten those who are gatekeepers to the national research agenda, about the strength and legitimacy of the qualitative research paradigm. From a global standpoint, this book functions as a foil to show how in a context not systematically underpinned by critical dialogues of Western philosophy nor the ideology of research paradigms, significant considerations positioned within Eastern concepts of knowledge production can still thrive. The integration of both Eastern and Western perspectives at the crossroads of Asian-based qualitative research offers important lessons that are useful for supervisory, teaching and learning purposes.

This volume will be relevant to qualitative research methodology educators and researchers from across the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.

Table of Contents:

Contents

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors 

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

SECTION 1: Forwarding Qualitative Design

1. Malaysia’s knowledge journey: National Epistemological Moulding (NEM) and social research

               Su Li Chong

2. Unfolding stories: Narratives of women with breast-cancer

               Wan Hasliza Wan Mamat

3. Media diary method: Navigating the untold world of young Malaysians’ use of media for identity formation

               Haryati Abdul Karim

4. Venturing out of “the norm”: Challenges with flexibility and subjectivity of qualitative research design

               Kalvina A/P Chelladorai

               Wen Yea Hwong

5. Between the ‘flying rocks’: How narratives of a rural Sarawak community’s collective anger shifted an impact study’s methodological design

               Haslina Hashim

               Noor’ain Aini

               Linda Alfarero Lumayag

6. Seeing anew: Transitioning from positivism to interpretivism

               Jeffrey K. L. Yee

SECTION 2: Making use of rigour

7. Reconciling personal beliefs with the realities of grant applications: an early career qualitative researcher’s narrative

               Jia Wei Lim

8. Qualitative research & publications in Malaysia: Some patterns and perspectives

               Su Li Chong

               Dahlia Janan

9. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: Life as a qualitative researcher in a positivist jungle

               Balvinder Kaur Kler

SECTION 3: Anchoring in philosophy and axiology

10. Qualitative methodology to examine decision-making processes trans men utilise in becoming men

               Vizla Kumaresan

11. Dealing with sensitive and distressing data: A perspective from online sexism discourse researchers

               Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan

12. Lessons learned on sensitivity and ethics through interviewing repeat students

               Chan Choong Foong

13. Overcoming challenges and sensitivities surrounding sexual health topic

               Siti Hazariah Abdul Hamid

14. Treading carefully in murky waters: Sensitivities and sensibilities in research on ethnicity and race in Malaysia

               Mitshel Lino

Index