Description
Book SynopsisToo often interviewing is seen as simply a tool for data collection, while in reality it is a complex, subtle process that cannot be separated from the dynamic of the project or from the multiple and changing contexts of everyday life. In posing the question, âœwhat is research for?â,
Interviewing and Representation in Qualitative Research explores the processes of interviewing as itself a project intimately involved in contemporary debates around knowledge, freedom, power, ethics, modernism postmodernism, and globalisation.
What makes the book distinctive is its focus on interviewing not just as a tool to be used within other frameworks such as case study, action research, evaluation and surveys, but as an approach to organise a project as a whole, to provide frameworks for organising perspectives on the multiple âworldsâ of everyday life. It is argued that every project, every methodology, every theoretical perspective has its own rhetorical framework that interacts with th
Table of Contents
CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter 1 The interview in the project context
Chapter 2 Language as Method. As model, As World
Chapter 3 Doing the Inter-view
Chapter 4 Interpreting, Understanding, Explaining
Chapter 5 Positioning Subjects, Framing Selves, Making Worlds
Chapter 6 Mapping The Politics: a rhetoric of circumstances, motives and action
Chapter 7 Truth, Witness and betrayal: The ethical framing of interview based research
Chapter 8 From Anecdote to Narrative Case Studies
Chapter 9 From Interviews to Writing
Conclusion
