Short description:

Once again, editors Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln have put together a volume that represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the considerable foundations of the landmark first (1994) and second editions (2000) the Third Edition moves qualitative research boldly into the 21st century. The editors and authors ask how the practices of qualitative inquiry can be used to address issues of social justice in this new century.

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research is far-reaching and comprehensive, featuring a virtual `Who's Who' in the human sciences. It is absolutely an essential text for the library of any academic interested in the art, science and practice of qualitative research.

Long description:

Once again, editors Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln have put together a volume that represents the state of the art for the theory and practice of qualitative inquiry. Built on the considerable foundations of the landmark first (1994) and second editions (2000) the Third Edition moves qualitative research boldly into the 21st century. The editors and authors ask how the practices of qualitative inquiry can be used to address issues of social justice in this new century.

As with the second edition, the Third Edition represents virtually a new handbook. There are 14 totally new topics, including, among others, indigenous research, institutional review boards and human subject research, critical and performance ethnography, arts-based inquiry, narrative inquiry, Foucault, the ethics and strategies of on-line research, cultural and investigative poetics, the politics of evaluation. Over half of the 42 chapters are written by new authors. Every returning chapter has been thoroughly revised and updated. The organization is clear and sensible, moving from the general to the specific and from the past to the present and the future.

The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research is far-reaching and comprehensive, featuring a virtual `Who's Who' in the human sciences. It is absolutely an essential text for the library of any academic interested in the art, science and practice of qualitative research.

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"Like previous editions, this offers the most comprehensive analysis in a single volume of the theories, techniques, and foundational thought underpinning qualitative inquiry...Highly recommended."

Table of Contents:

Preface - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Intoduction: The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research - Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
LOCATING THE FIELD
Reform of the Social Sciences and of Universities Through Action Research - Davydd Greenwood and Morten Levin
Compositional Studies in Two Parts: Critical Theorizing and Analysis on Social (In)Justice - Michelle Fine and Lois Weis
On Tricky Ground: Researching the Native in the Age of Uncertainty - Linda Tuhiwai Smith
Freeing Ourselves from Neo-colonial Domination in Research: A Kaupapa Maori Approach to Creating Knowledge - Russell Bishop
Ethics and Politics in Qualitative Research - Clifford G. Christians
Institutional Review Boards and Methodological Conservatism: The Challenge to and From Phenomenological Paradigms - Yvonna S. Lincoln
PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES IN CONTENTION
Paradigmatic Controversies, Contradictions, and Emerging Confluences - Egon G. Guba and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Critical Ethnography: The Politics of Collaboration - Douglas Foley and Angela Valenzuela
Early Millenial Feminist Qualitative Research: Challenges and Contours - Virginia Olesen
The Moral Activist Role of Critical Race Theory Scholarship - Gloria Ladson-Billings and Jamel Donner
Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research - Joe L. Kincheloe and Peter McLaren
Methodologies for Cultural Studies: An Integrative Approach - Paula Saukko
Critical Humanism and Queer Theory: Living With the Tensions - Ken Plummer
STRATEGIES OF INQUIRY
The Practice and Politics of Funded Qualitative Research - Julianne Cheek
Performance Ethnography: The Reenacting and Inciting of Culture - Bryant Keith Alexander
Qualitative Case Studies - Robert E. Stake
The Observation of Participation and the Emergence of Public Ethnography - Barbara Tedlock
Interpretive Practice and Social Action - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Grounded Theory in the 21st Century: Applications for Advancing Social Justice Studies - Kathy Charmaz
Critical Ethnography as Street Performance: Reflections of Home, Race, Murder, and Justice - D. Soyini Madison
Testimonio, Subalternity, and Narrative Authority - John Beverley
Participatory Action Research - Stephen Kemmis and Robin McTaggart
Clinical Research - William L. Miller and Benjamin F. Crabtree
METHODS OF COLLECTING AND ANALYZING EMPIRICAL MATERIALS
Narrative Inquiry: Multiple Lenses, Approaches, Voices - Susan E. Chase
Arts-Based Inquiry: Performing Revolutionary Pedagogy - Susan Finley
The Interview: From Neutral Stance to Political Involvement - Andrea Fontana and James H. Frey
Recontextualizing Observation: Ethnography, Pedagogy, and the Prospects for a Progressive Political Agenda - Michael V. Angrosino
What's New Visually? - Douglas Harper
Autoethnography: Making the Personal Political - Stacey Holman Jones
The Methods, Politics, and Ethics of Representation in Online Ethnography - Annette N. Markham
Analytic Perspectives - Paul Atkinson and Sara Delamont
Foucault's Methodologies: Archeaology and Genealogy - James Joseph Scheurich and Kathryn Bell McKenzie
Anayzing Talk and Text - Anssi Perakyla
Focus Groups: Strategic Articulations of Pedagogy, Politics, and Inquiry - George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis
THE ART AND PRACTICES OF INTERPRETATION, EVALUATION, AND PRESENTATION
Relativism, Criteria, and Politics - John K. Smith and Phil Hodkinson
Emancipatory Discourses and the Ethics and Politics of Interpretation - Norman K. Denzin
Writing: A Method of Inquiry - Laurel Richardson and Elisabeth St. Pierre
Poetics for a Planet: Discourse on Some Problems of Being-in-Place - Ivan Brady
Cultural Poesis: The Generativity of Emergent Things - Kathleen Stewart
"Aria in Time of War": Investigative Poetry and the Politics of Witnessing - Stephen J. Hartnett and Jeremy D. Engels
Qualitative Evaluation and Changing Social Policy - Ernest House
THE FUTURE OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Afterthought: On Writing; On Writing Sociology - Zygmunt Bauman
Re-Functioning Ethnography: The Challenge of an Anthropology of the Contemporary - Douglas R. Holmes and George E. Marcus
Epilogue: The Eighth and Ninth Moments: Qualitative Research in/and the Fractured Future - Yvonna S. Lincoln and Norman K. Denzin