Preface

Introduction: Invitation to the Craft of Qualitative Research
Steven W. Kleinknecht, Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott, and Carrie B. Sanders

 
SECTION I: PLANNING YOUR PROJECT

Chapter 1: “The Person Behind the Research:” Reflexivity and the Qualitative Research Process
Kalyani Thurairajah

Chapter 2: The Role of Unpredictability in Ethnographic Fieldwork
Mark S. Dolson

Chapter 3: Collateral Damage: Preparing Your Friends and Family for Your Ethnography
Tony Christensen

Chapter 4: The Story of Dr. Charles Smith: An Exercise in Rolling Thematic Analysis
Chris McCormick

 
SECTION II: NAVIGATING ETHICAL DILEMMAS

Chapter 5: Living Your Ethics: “It’s” Not Just a Dusty Document
Kerstin Roger and Javier Mignone

Chapter 6: Observing Teens: Negotiating Power and Opportunity During Field Research
Katherine Irwin

Chapter 7: Doing Research Undercover: Interviewing Protesters
Gül Çalışkan

Chapter 8: Social Regulation and Ethics in Research
Will van den Hoonaard

 
SECTION III: MANAGING INSIDER/OUTSIDER STATUS WHILE GAINING ACCESS

Chapter 9: An Insider’s Perspective on Research with Policewomen in Canada
Lesley J. Bikos

Chapter 10: Politics and Tensions of Doing Transgender Research: Lessons Learned by a Straight-White-Cisgender Man
Matthew S. Johnston

Chapter 11: Researching Truck Drivers: Difficult Data Collection and Proving Oneself Amidst a Culture of Suspicious Masculinity
Michael A. Fleming

Chapter 12: “You’re an Alien to Us”: Autoethnographic Accounts of Two Researchers’ Experiences in an Organizational Setting
Cathlene Hillier and Emily Milne

 
SECTION IV: EXPERIENCING EMOTIONS WHILE ESTABLISHING TRUST AND RAPPORT

Chapter 13: Using a Qualitative Approach in Applied Military Personnel Research
Justin Wright

Chapter 14: Navigating Emotions While Establishing Trust and Rapport in Autoethnography
Colleen McMillan

Chapter 15: Personal Reputation as an “In” to Field Research Settings
Steven W. Kleinknecht

Chapter 16: “You Are Not Allowed to Be Here…”: Ethnography of Rejection, Shame, and Hurt
Thaddeus Müller

Chapter 17: Doing Research on Behind-the-Scenes Phenomena: Entering the Female Escort Industry
Magdalena Wojciechowska

 
SECTION V: DOING OBSERVATION

Chapter 18: “Going Through the (E)motions”: Attending to Social Location and Emotionality in Observational Studies of Police
Crystal Weston and Carrie B. Sanders

Chapter 19: Reconsidering Relations in the Field: Attending to Dominance Processes in the Ethnographic Encounter
Scott Grills

Chapter 20: Minding the Gap at the Limits of Observation
Kritee Ahmed

Chapter 21: Tips and Tricks for Writing Reflexive Field Notes When Doing Team- Based Rapid Ethnographic Research
Krystal Kehoe MacLeod

 
SECTION VI: DOING INTERVIEWS

Chapter 22: “Show and Tell”: Using Objects as Visual Interview Guides in Qualitative Interviewing
Kathleen Steeves and Deana Simonetto

Chapter 23: Interactional Strategies of Interview Participants and Their Sense of Self
Deborah K. van den Hoonaard

Chapter 24: “Opening Access” to Open-Access Editors: Communication Technologies in Long Distance Interviewing
Taylor Price and Antony Puddephatt

Chapter 25: Conducting Phenomenological Interviews
Ellen Rose

Chapter 26: A Reflection on Challenges and Negotiation in the Context of International Fieldwork
Abhar Rukh Husain

 
SECTION VII: COLLECTING OTHER FORMS OF DATA

Chapter 27: Listening to Streets and Watching Paint Dry: Collecting Other Forms of Data
Deborah Landry

Chapter 28: Doing Archival Research Ariane Hanemaayer

Chapter 29: “Every Corner Tells a Story”: Using Neighbourhood Walks and GPS to Understand Children’s Sense of Place
Bree Akesson

Chapter 30: Ethnography in Inaccessible Fields: Drawing on Visual Approaches to Understand the Private Space of the Home
Dawn Mannay

Chapter 31: Collecting Social Media Data in Qualitative Research
Meghan Lynch and Catherine Mah

 
SECTION VIII: ANALYZING YOUR DATA

Chapter 32: Reframing an Awkward Moment: A Comparison of Two Analytic Strategies for Being Reflexive
Amber Gazso and Katherine Bischoping

Chapter 33: Making Sense of Your Data: From Paralysis to Theoretical Engagement
Michael Adorjan

Chapter 34: “Dilemmas of Voice” in Community-Based HIV Research
Jeffrey P. Aguinaldo

Chapter 35: Analyzing Materiality
Carrie B. Sanders and Lisa-Jo K. van den Scott

Chapter 36: Tree Drawings: Visual Analysis and Representation of Queer Activist Life History Research
Susan Diane

 
SECTION IX: LEAVING THE FIELD

Chapter 37: Leaving the Field/Can You Leave the Field?
Jeffrey van den Scott

Chapter 38: Negotiating Tensions in Exiting the Field of Critical Qualitative Research
Sarah Benbow and Jodi Hall

Chapter 39: Leaving the Field Trajectories: Researching Hasidic Jews
William Shaffir

Chapter 40: On (Still) Being Emotionally Attached to the Field
Nichole Edwards

 
SECTION X: DISSEMINATING YOUR FINDINGS TO SCHOLARS AND OTHER AUDIENCES

Chapter 41: Communicating Your Ideas and Publishing Readable Texts
J. I. (Hans) Bakker

Chapter 42: Dissemination and Social Justice
Snežana Ratković and Bharati Sethi

Chapter 43: Promoting Qualitative Research in the Public Sphere: Lessons Learned from Online Criticisms
Chad Walker

Chapter 44: After the Fine Cut: Disseminating Video-Based Research
Sarah Abbott and Phillip Vannini

Chapter 45: Disseminating Qualitative Research in Media
Christopher J. Schneider

 
Contributors

Index