Table of Contents

Preface
1. Introduction by the Editor: Patricia Leavy

Part One: The Qualitative Tradition

2. Historical Overview of Qualitative Research in the Social Sciences: Svend Brinkmann, Michael Hviid Jacobsen, and Søren Kristiansen
3. The History of Historical-Comparative Methods in Sociology: Chares Demetriou and Victor Roudometof
4. The Centrality of Ethics in Qualitative Research: Anna Traianou

Part Two: Approaches to Qualitative Research

5. Philosophical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Renée Spencer, Julia M. Pryce, and Jill Walsh
6. Applied Interpretive Approaches: Sally E.Thorne
7. The Grounded Theory Method: Antony Bryant
8. Feminist Qualitative Research: Toward Transformation of Science and Social Justice: Maureen C. McHugh
9. Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research: Kum-Kum Bhavnani, Peter Chua, and Dana Collins
10. Decolonizing Research Practice: Indigenous Methodologies, Aboriginal Methods, and Knowledge/Knowing: Mike Evans, Adrian Miller, Peter Hutchinson, and Carlene Dingwall

Part Three: Narrative Inquiry, Field Research, and Interview Methods

11. Practicing Narrative Inquiry II: Making Meanings Move: Arthur P. Bochnerand Andrew F. Herrmann
12. Ethnography: Anthony Kwame Harrison
13. Practicing Autoethnograhy and Living the Autoethnographic Life: Carolyn Ellis and Tony E. Adams
14. Duoethnography: A Polytheoretical Approach to (Re)Storing, (Re)Storying the Meanings that One Give: Joe Norris and Rick Sawyer
15. Unstructured and Semi-Structured Interviewing: Svend Brinkmann
16. Oral History Interviewing: With Purpose and Critical Awareness: Valerie J. Janesick
17. Focus Group Research: Retrospect and Prospect: George Kamberelis and Greg Dimitriadis
18. Museum Studies: Erica L. Tucker

Part Four: Text, Arts-Based, and Internet Methods

19. Content Analysis: Lindsay Prior
20. Photography as a Research Method: Gunilla Holm
21. Arts-Based Research Practice: Merging Social Research and the Creative Arts: Gioia Chilton and Patricia Leavy
22. Qualitative Approaches in Internet-Mediated Research: Opportunities, Issues, Possibilities: Claire Hewson

Part Five: Multi-Method, Mixed Methods, and Participatory Designs

23. Case Study Research: In-Depth Understanding in Context: Helen Simons
24. Program Evaluation: Paul R.Brandon and Anna L. Ah Sam
25. Community-Based Research: A Grass-Roots and Social Justice Orientation to Inquiry: Margaret Boyd
26. Complex Teams and Qualitative Research: Judith Davidson
27. Qualitative Disaster Research: DeeDee M. Bennett, Mark R. Landahl, Brenda D.Phillips
28. Conducting Mixed Methods Research: Using Dialectical Pluralism and Social Psychological Strategies: Susan A. Tucker, R. Burke Johnson, Tony Onwuegbuzie, and Marjorie L. Icenogle

Part Six: Analysis and Interpretation

29. Qualitative Data Analysis Strategies: Johnny Saldaña
30. Computer-Assisted Analysis of Qualitative Research: Christina Silver and Ann F. Lewins
31. Interpretation Strategies in Qualitative Research: What, Why, How: Allen Trent and Jeasik Cho

Part Seven: Representation and Evaluation

32. Writing Up Qualitative Research: Jane F.Gilgun
33. Transforming Field Notes into Text: Jessica Smartt Gullion
34. Creative Approaches to Writing: Sandra L. Faulkner and Sheila Squillante
35. Scripting Ethnodrama: Joe Salvatore
36. Write-Reach-Repeat: The Role and Rise of Public Intellectualism in Qualitative Research: Robin M. Boylorn
37. Evaluating Qualitative Research 2.0: Jeasik Cho and Allen Trent

Part Eight: Conclusion: Politics, Pedagogy, and the Public

38. The Politics of Research: Michael D. Giardina and Joshua I. Newman
39. Superheroes and Superpowers: Contemplative, Creative, and De/Colonial Approaches to Teaching Qualitative Research: Kakali Bhattacharya
40. A Changing Terrain: Qualitative Research in the Age of Transdisciplinarity and Public Scholarship: Patricia Leavy

About the Author

Patricia Leavy, PhD, is a leading researcher, acclaimed author, and public speaker. She has published more than twenty-five books, including Research Design: Quantitative, Qualitative, Mixed Methods, Arts-Based, and Community-Based Participatory Research Approaches, Handbook of Arts-Based Research, Method Meets Art, The Oxford Handbook of Methods for Public Scholarship, and the novels Spark, Blue, American Circumstance, and Low-Fat Love.
She is also series creator and editor for eight book series with Oxford University Press and Brill-Sense, including the ground-breaking Social Fictions series. She has blogged for The Creativity Post, The Huffington Post, Mogul,
and We Are the Real Deal and is cofounder and co-editor-in-chief of Art/Research International: A Transdisciplinary Journal. She has received career awards from the New England Sociological Association, the American Creativity Association, the American Educational Research Association, the National Art Education Association, and the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, and the State University of New York at New Paltz has established the "Patricia Leavy Award for Art
and Social Justice."

Reviews

"Provides information on many aspects of qualitative research and can be of value to music therapy students, researchers, and scholars. I encourage music therapists to take advantage of what it has to offer. Patricia Leavy says in the Preface, "My hope is that the handbook will be useful in the teaching of qualitative research to students across disciplines and that researchers will frequently pull it from their bookshelves." I believe that it serves this
purpose.

-- Approaches: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Music Therapy
"Editor Patricia Leavy has assembled an insightful collection that examines the challenges and opportunities inherent to qualitative research. Inclusive and dynamic, the handbook's chapters will be of interest, and helpful, to a wide array of new and senior researchers." -- Keith Berry, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of South Florida
"Patricia Leavy has done it again! The Second Edition of The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research is a rich resource for a field trying to keep abreast of a multitude of nuanced changes within qualitative research. The Handbook provides substantive and historical overviews of qualitative traditions, and it also opens the way for introducing more emergent and contemporary approaches. Yet it doesn't stop there DL the volume covers ongoing issues such
as evaluation, ethics, and public engagement for all qualitative researchers. Accessible for students, scholars, and practitioners alike, this Handbook is a must-have resource for anyone embarking upon or
continuing their work in qualitative research!" -- Rita L. Irwin, Professor, Art Education and Curriculum Studies, The University of British Columbia
"This new edition of The Oxford Handbook of Qualitative Research, masterfully edited by Patricia Leavy and authored by an impressive team of international and multi-disciplinary scholars, is a veritable feast, articulating with freshness and vitality issues that are crucial for qualitative researchers across the social sciences. Enthusiastically recommended!" -- Liora Bresler, Professor Emerita, College of Education, University of Illinois