The Landscape of Qualitative Research: Theories and Issues

The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Second Edition, the first volume in the paperback version of the The Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition, takes a look at the field from a broadly theoretical perspective, and is composed of the Handbooks Parts I ( Locating the Field ), II ( Major Paradigms and Perspectives ), and VI ( The Future of Qualitative Research ).

The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Second Edition attempts to put the field of qualitative research in context. Part I locates the field, starting with history, then action research and the academy, research for whom?, and the politics and ethics of qualitative research. Part II isolates what we regard as the major historical and contemporary paradigms now structuring and influencing qualitative research in the human disciplines. The chapters move from competing paradigms (positivist, postpositivist, constructivist, critical theory) to specific interpretive perspectives, feminisms, racialized discourses, cultural studies, sexualities, and queer theory. Part III considers the future of qualitative research.

The Handbook of Qualitative Research, Second Edition is widely considered to be the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry. Now published in paperback in response to the needs of classroom teachers, The Landscape of Qualitative Research, Second Edition will be an ideal supplement for a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines.