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Table of Contents

Detailed Table of Contents; List of Boxes and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface; PART 1: INTRODUCING QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; 1. Qualitative Research and Its Place in Human Geography; 2. Power, Subjectivity, and Ethics in Qualitative Research; 3. Cross-cultural Research: Ethics, Methods, and Relationships; 4. Qualitative Research Design and Rigour; 5. Case Studies in Qualitative Research; PART 2: 'DOING' QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; 6. Interviewing; 7. Oral History and Human Geography; 8. Focusing on the Focus Group; 9. Historical Research and Archival Sources; 10. Using Questionnaires in Qualitative Human Geography; 11. Doing Foucauldian Discourse Analysis - Revealing Social Identities; 12. Seeing with Clarity: Undertaking Observational Research; 13. Participatory Action Research; PART 3: 'INTERPRETING AND COMMUNICATING' THE RESULTS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY; 14. Coding Qualitative Data; 15. Computers, Qualitative Data, and Geographic Research; 16. Writing a Compelling Research Proposal; 17. Writing Qualitative Geographies, Constructing Geographical Knowledges; 18. From Personal to Public: Communicating Qualitative Research for Public Consumption; Glossary; References; Index

About the Author

Iain Hay is Professor of Human Geography at Flinders University, South Australia and the Australian Learning and Teaching Council's Discipline Scholar for the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities. His principal research interests revolve around geographies of domination and oppression, work for which he received a LittD from the University of Canterbury in 2009. He is author or editor of eight books - several of which have gone multiple editions - and more than 75 scholarly chapters and papers in journals such as Geografiska Annaler B, Political Geography, Professional Geographer, and Progress in Human Geography. In 2006 Iain was named Australian University Teacher of the Year. He was admitted as a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy in 2008 and as a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators in 2009. He is currently Vice President (President-Elect) of the Institute of Australian Geographers.