Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgements
Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part 1 Critical Review of Qualitative Research Approaches
Chapter 1 Making Research Black and Strange: Why History Matters in the Current Disappearing World
1 Implicating Research and Black Loss
2 Towards a Reconciling and Accounting Black Loss as a Research Methodology
3 Conclusion
References
Chapter 2 Grounded Theory: Effects of covid-19 on Homeless Youth: Methodological Reflections
1 Literature Review
2 Methodology
2.1 Existential Analysis
2.2 Methodological Analysis
3 Recovering, Mourning and Critical Reflexivity as Social Justice
4 Reimagining Grounded as a COVID-19-Related Approach
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3 Reflexivity, Recursion and Re-evaluation: Some Reflections On โInstitutional Ethnographyโ
1 Adding Recursion to Reflexivity1
2 Completing Smithโs Recursive Loop: the โPaperโ within a Paper
Vocalising an Ambivalence
Initial Explorations: Pursuing a โCriticalโ Ethnomethodology
Researching the Macro through the Micro: Going beyond Ethnomethodology
Unanticipated Consequences
Summary: Going beyond Ideological Analysis
3 Concluding Remarks: Reflecting on Smith; Re-evaluating Smith
References
Part 2 Overview of Critical Reflexive Research Methodologies
Chapter 4 Resisting through Research: Developing a Qualitative โMixed Methodsโ Approach in Research with Sex Workers
1 Introduction
2 Conventional Methodological Considerations
2.1 Location
2.2 Sampling and Access
2.3 Interview Process
3 Going beyond Traditional Qualitative Methods
3.1 Feminist Qualitative Methods for Researching Sex Work
3.2 Community Action Research
4 Beyond Community Action Research
4.1 Qualitative Methods from the Theoretical and Methodological Margins
4.2 Amplifying the Embodied Voice of the Marginalized
4.3 Considering Theoretical and Methodological Concerns Informing Each Other
4.4 The Standpoint of the Researcher
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5 Beyond Codified Logics of Ethics: Jungle and the Ethics of Non-violence
1 Introduction
2 Critical Ethics
3 Theoretical and Philosophical Analysis
3.1 Foucault and Care of the Self
4 Critical Ethical Care and Research Process
5 Critical Ethical Principles
6 Values (Axiology)
7 Concluding Words
References
Chapter 6 Africa beyond Africa: Afro-pessimism as an Ethical Demand
1 Literature Review
2 Findings
3 Philosophical Reflexivity and Analysis
4 Concluding Remarks
References
Chapter 7 Markets Logics in Research Process and the Denigration of Black Bodies
1 Research Process and Social Elimination of Blackness
2 Black Methodological Conception
3 Welcome to the Jungle of Black Messiness
4 Conclusion
References
Part 3 Critical Reflexive Research Methods
Chapter 8 Teaching to the Tensions: Pushing the Boundaries of Qualitative Social Work Research
1 Re-teaching Qualitative Research: Our Stories
2 Susan S.: Searching for Stories that Transform Knowledge
2.1 My Goals and Approach when Teaching Research
2.2 Critical Teaching Moments โ Representation and Social Media
2.3 Narratives in the Public Domain
3 Susan P: the Details Matter: Reconceptualizing Qualitative Research
3.1 My Passion for Research
3.2 My โAhaโ Moments
3.3 Reflections
4 Purnima: Realigning Research for Disrupting Hegemony, Seeking Epistemic Justice, and Emancipation
4.1 My Passion for Teaching Research
4.2 Critical Moment That Influenced My Teaching
4.3 The Research Context
4.4 Implementing โBaithakโ
4.5 Tensions and Critical Reflections
5 Lessons Learned
References
Chapter 9 Qualitative Research as Resistance: The Use of Vignettes to Support Situated Knowledge and the Deconstruction of Colonial Policies
1 Introduction
2 Resistance as Research: Anticolonialism, Decolonialism, and Anti-oppression
3 Research Questions and Methodology
3.1 Overarching Research Questions
3.2 Site Sampling and Reasoning
3.3 Data Analysis
4 Discussion
4.1 Ethical Considerations
5 Conclusions
References
Chapter 10 Remembering in Research: Doing Research in Asian Communities
1 Introduction
2 Who Am I in Relation to Research?
3 Understanding the Histories and Manifestation of Colonization in Canada
4 Communitiesโ Histories Are Fluid
5 Asian Communities and the Discourse of Class
6 We Must Remember That They Speak Different Languages
7 We Must Understand That the Newcomer Is Socially Constructed
8 We Must Remember That They Have Histories of Resistance
9 Conclusion
References
Chapter 11 Application of Research to Africaโs Peace and Security Conundrum: The Ethical and Moral Divide between the Ideal and Real
1 Introduction
2 The United Nations Security Council (unsc)
3 Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union
4 Structuring Peace Support Operations in Africa
5 Conflict Triggers in Africa
6 Drivers of Conflict: Human Rights Watch on the Rwanda Genocide
7 Wages of War: Winners vs. Victims
8 The Ethical Dilemma in Research on Peace and Security in Africa
9 Interests or Lack in Conflict Resolution
10 Ideological Differences
11 Commitment of Resources to Early Warning and Early Response: Where Real Priorities Lie
12 Addressing Climate Change
13 Health, Pandemics and Epidemics
14 UNSC Composition/Representation and Camaraderie
15 Conclusion
References
Part 4 Reflexivity and Ethics
Chapter 12 Ethics of Doing Research in the Indigenous Community
1 Introduction
2 The Participants
3 Recruitment
4 Data Collection
5 Data Analysis and Coding
6 Implicating the Self: Who Am I in Relation to the Aeta Women
7 Conclusion
References
Chapter 13 A Reflexive Gaze on Qualitative Policy Research: Deconstructing Traditional Policy Research with the Interface of Youth-Voice and Arts-Based Focus Groups
1 Research Methodology
1.1 Not All of the Set-Out Approaches to the Research Were So Clear in Practice!
2 Focus Groups
3 Youth as Policy Actors
3.1 Youth Speak to Their Exclusion from the Policy Process
4 Art as Critical Policy Research Methodology
4.1 Lived Experience as Policy Expert
4.2 Policy Is Intersectional and Layered
5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 14 A Co-constructed Critical Autoethnographical Conversation with Social Work Students regarding Reflexive Research Engagement
1 Methodology: Why a Critical Co-constructed Autoethnography?
2 Beginning the Story by Situating Ourselves
2.1 Social Location
3 Reflexive Engagement with the Research Process
3.1 Grounded Theory
4 Learning from the Research Team Engagement Process
4.1 Team Meetings
4.2 Conceptualization
5 Application of Learning
5.1 Research World Weaving with aop Front Line Work
5.2 Research-Social Work Crossover
5.3 Trauma-Informed Lens
5.4 Allowing Participants to Define Marginalization, and Homelessness
5.5 Research Ethics Board Protocol and Processes
6 Recruitment
6.1 Interviewing
6.2 Transcribing Interviews
7 Research during a Time of covid-19
7.1 Honorariums and Vulnerable Populations
8 Ethical Dilemma
8.1 Finding Peace with the Dissonance
9 Final Thoughts/Conclusion
9.1 Advice for Future Student Researchers from These Student Researchers
References
Chapter 15 Arendtian Phenomenology of Politics
1 Introduction
2 Hermeneutic-Phenomenological
3 Arendtโs Approach Shift
4 Phenomenological Existence
5 Totalitarian Appraisal
6 Reflections on Common Sense and Judgment by Arendt
7 Civic Friendship and Politics of Friendship via Political-Philosophical Debate
8 Public Invisibility, Private Visibility and Social In/Visibility
9 Conclusion
References
Index