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Book SynopsisSituational Analysis (SA) uses analytic maps of the situation, processes and relations identified using approaches pioneered in Grounded Theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke, with Rachel Washburn and Carrie Friese, show how the method can be, and has been, used in a variety of critical qualitative studies.
The entirely new second edition of this book offers several chapters on the method and new introductory material from the editors about developments in using SA in qualitative inquiry. Part I introduces readers to the method of SA, discussing recent developments in the field. Part II offers five new chapters about various facets of the SA method, including a history of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, SA as critical pragmatist interactionism, using SA in managing a mixed-methods project, and SA mapping in the social policy classroom and in clinical counseling as innovatively collaborative analysis. Part III offers six new exemplar
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"Situational Analysis in Practice 2e is a unique book on research method. By having scholars generously reflect on how they practice situational analysis, this book is an inspiring read. It shows how to think with the methodology as a creative process, from the spark of the initial research idea until dissemination."
Stine W. Adrian, Associate Professor in Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University, Denmark
"This book teaches how to observe and listen to the world. It shows what can be gained by taking the time to listen to its rhythms and patterns, instead of fitting them into predetermined categories. It offers a method to do rigorous qualitative social science while being open to surprise."
Barbara Prainsack, Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis, University of Vienna
"Teaching qualitative methodologies in general and especially Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, calls for published examples of good practice. Thus this book was always useful, and the second edition even more encompassing and instructive. It proves both the feasibility and the usefulness of mapping for perspectives, social worlds and discourse positions."
Jörg Strübing, Professor of Sociology, Universität Tübingen, Germany
Table of ContentsPART I: INTRODUCING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS 1. Introducing Situational Analysis PART II: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AS AN INTERPRETIVE METHOD 2. Adele E. Clarke. (2019). "Situating Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis in Interpretive Qualitative Inquiry." 3. Carrie Friese, Adele E. Clarke & Rachel Washburn. (2021). "Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism." 4. Carrie Friese. "Reflections on Using SA in a Large, Mixed-Methods Project: ‘Care as Science: The Role of Animal Husbandry in Translational Medicine.’" 5. Richard Holtzman. (2019). "Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking." 6. Tanya E. Mudry, Vanessa Vegter, Tom Strong. "Creative Mapping Possibilities: Situational Analysis as a Resource for Counselling" PART III: EXEMPLARS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH WITH REFLECTIONS 7. Sarah Glück (2018) "Making Energy Cultures Visible with Situational Analysis." Sarah Glück "Reflections on Choreographing Messy and Complex Situations in Energy Research" 8. Wanda Martin, Bernie Pauly, & Marjorie MacDonald. (2016). "Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research." Wanda Martin "Reflections on Why and How I Came to Use Situational Analysis" Situational and/or Relational Map Focus 9. Hanna Lempinen: "Reflections on (Doing) Situational Analysis at the Margins of International Relations" Social Worlds/Arenas Map Focus 10. Andres Felipe Valderrama Pineda. (2015). "Disabilities, the Design of Urban Transport Systems and the City: A Situational Analysis." Andres Valderrama: "Reflections on Using Situational Analysis to Study Disabled Access to Public Transport" 11. Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Kurt Thumlert & Suzanne de Castell (2016): "Re-Mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)-coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico." Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Suzanne de Castell and Kurt Thumlert "Reflections on ‘Re-mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico’" 12. Michael Fisher. (2014). "PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence." Michael Fisher: "Reflections on Mapping Discourses of PTSD Prevalence"
