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In this, the first of a three-volume paperback version of the landmark Handbook of Qualitative Research , editors Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln survey the field of qualitative research from a wide-ranging theoretical perspective. Part One locates the field, providing historical context as well as background on applied qualitative research, the `self′ and the `other′, and the politics and ethics of qualitative inquiry. Part Two examines the major paradigms that inform and influence qualitative research in the human disciplines. Part Three considers the future of qualitative research.

The Handbook of Qualitative Research is the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry, and features contributions from many of the leading scholars in the area. Now published in paperback in response to the needs of classroom teachers, The Landscape of Qualitative Research is an ideal volume around which to build a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Preface
• Introduction
• Entering the Field of Qualitative Research
• Part 1 Locating The Field
• Qualitative Methods
• Their History in Sociology and Anthropology
• Traditions, Preferences and Postures in Applied Qualitative Research
• Working the Hyphens
• Reinventing 'Self' and 'Other' in Qualitative Research
• Politics and Ethics in Qualitative Research
• Part 2 Major Paradigms And Perspectives
• Competing Paradigms in Qualitative Research
• Constructivist, Interpretivist Approaches to Human Inquiry
• Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research
• Feminisms and Models of Qualitative Research
• Ethnic Modeling in Qualitative Research
• Audiencing
• Cultural Practice and Cultural Studies
• Part 3 The Future Of Qualitative Research
• What Comes (Just) after 'Post'? The Case of Ethnography
• The Fifth Moment

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Norman K. Denzin was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Communications, College of Communications Scholar, and Research Professor of Communications, Sociology, and Humanities at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. One of the world's foremost authorities on qualitative research and cultural criticism, he was the author or editor of more than 30 books, including The Qualitative Manifesto ; Qualitative Inquiry Under Fire ; Reading Race ; Interpretive Ethnography ; The Cinematic Society ; The Alcoholic Self ; and a trilogy on the American West. He was past editor of The Sociological Quarterly , co-editor of six editions of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research , co-editor (with Michael D. Giardina) of 18 books on qualitative inquiry, co-editor (with Yvonna S. Lincoln and Michael D. Giardina) of the methods journal Qualitative Inquiry , founding editor of Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies and International Review of Qualitative Research , editor of four book series, and founding director of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry.

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor Emerita at Texas A&M University, where she held the Ruth Harrington Chair of Educational Leadership and was Distinguished Professor of Higher Education. She is the coeditor of the journal Qualitative Inquiry , coeditor of the first through six editions of The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research , and coeditor of The SAGE Handbook of Critical and Indigenous Methodologies. As well, she is the coauthor, editor, or coeditor of more than a half dozen other books and volumes. She has served as the President of the Association for the Study of Higher Education and the American Evaluation Research Association, and as the Vice President for Division J (Postsecondary Education) for the American Educational Research Association. She is the author of coauthor of more than 100 chapters and journal articles on aspects of higher education or qualitative research methods and methodologies.