Kategoria BISAC: Social Science >> Methodology

Renowned scholar and founder of the practice of narrative inquiry, D. Jean Clandinin, and her coauthors provide researchers with the theoretical underpinnings and processes for conducting narrative inquiry with children and youth. Exploring the unique ability of narratives to elucidate the worldview of research subjects, the authors highlight the unique steps and issues of working with these special populations. The authors

• address key ethical issues of anonymity and confidentiality, the relational issues of co-composing field and research texts with subjects, and working...

This volume highlights work being done in qualitative inquiry through a variety of critical lenses such as new materialism, queer theory, and narrative inquiry. Contributors ranging from seasoned academics to emerging scholars attend to questions of ontology and epistemology, providing, in the process, insights that any qualitative researcher interested in the state of the field would find of value. The authors:

• re-think taken-for-granted paradigms, frameworks, methodologies, ethics, and politics;
• demonstrate major shifts in qualitative inquiry, and point readers in...

Yelena Symonchuk tragt mit ihrem Buch dem weltweit gestiegenen Interesse fur die Gewahrleistung der Sicherheit in der Region Zentralasien Rechnung, das insbesondere im Zusammenhang mit den Anderungen in der globalen Sicherheitsagenda entstanden ist. Sie untersucht, ob in Zentralasien ein regionaler Sicherheitskomplex gebildet worden ist, durch welche Besonderheiten er sich auszeichnet und was die Storungen fur ein wirksames Funktionieren regionaler Sicherheitsmechanismen bewirkt. Hierzu analysiert die Autorin den regionalen Sicherheitsdiskurs, die Zusammenhange im Sicherheitsbereich...

The term 'phenomenology' has become almost as over-used and emptied of meaning as that other word from Continental Philosophy, namely 'existentialism'. Yet Husserl, who first put forward the phenomenological method, considered it a rigorous alternative to positivism, and in the hands of Merleau-Ponty, a disciple of Husserl in France, phenomenology became a way of gaining a disciplined and coherent perspective on the world in which we live.

When this study originally published in 1977 there were only a few books in English on Merleau-Ponty's philosophy. It introduced the reader and...