| dc.description.abstract | Since the last report on qualitative methods
(Crang, 2005), many of the practical procedures
of doing qualitative research remain the
same. Human geographers continue to study
texts, to conduct interviews, to convene focus
groups and to engage in ethnography. Indeed,
it is hard, though perhaps not impossible,
to imagine what a radically new form of
qualitative research practice might look like.
So, for the time being, this suite of methods
remains the backbone of qualitative research in
human geography. Yet we would like to contend
that, while these activities continue as
before, there are changes in the way they are
being conceived and carried out, and related to
this there are transformations in the way these
methods are being used to make claims to
understanding and intervening in the world. In
the first of our three reports, it is this link
between qualitative methodologies and interpretative
strategies we would like to reflect on. | en_GB |
