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Handbook of Qualitative and Visual Methods in Spatial Research.

Listening, experiencing, drawing or interpreting spaces: narratives, experiences, visualizations and discourses can be helpful for the empirical investigation of spaces. This interdisciplinary handbook presents a broad spectrum of established methods and innovative method development to capture and...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Heinrich, Anna Juliane
Other Authors: Marguin, Séverine, Million, Angela, Stollmann, Jörg
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bielefeld : transcript Verlag, 2024.
Series:Re-Figuration Von Räumen Series.
Subjects:
Spatial behavior > Research.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Handbook structure and contents
  • Exploring space
  • Conversing and storytelling
  • Observing and experiencing
  • Drawing and visualizing
  • Reading and reflecting
  • Outlook for future topics and requirements for further research
  • References
  • I. Exploring space: Theoretical and overarching methodological aspects of qualitative spatial research
  • Conceptualizing and practicing spatial theory
  • References
  • Actor-Network Theory as a Theory of Space
  • 1 Early ANT: Toward a critique of the social production of space
  • 2 After-ANT: A topological turn in the study of technoscientific objects
  • 3 Near-ANT: Speculative cartography for the study of critical zones
  • References
  • Queer/feminist perspectives on qualitative spatial research
  • 1 Queer/feminist critique of science
  • 2 Deconstruction
  • 3 Positionality and reflexivity
  • 4 Research methods and reflexive research process
  • References
  • The reflective methodology of artistic spatial research
  • 1 Comparative methodology
  • 2 Retrospective traceability
  • 3 A study of the exclusion mechanisms in public space
  • 4 Aesthetic field research in ecological space
  • 5 Imagination of the future anterior
  • 6 Research cases
  • References
  • Case, context, and culture in spatial research
  • 1 What is a case?
  • 1.1 Dimensions of cases
  • 1.2 The uniformity of the case
  • 1.3 Field
  • case
  • subcase
  • 2 What is a context?
  • 2.1 Dimensions of contexts
  • 2.2 Context and culture
  • 3 What is culture?
  • 3.1 Classic concepts of culture
  • 3.2 More recent concepts of the relationship between space and culture
  • 4 Methodological implications of defining case, context, and culture
  • 4.1 Comparative cultural analysis of ethnicities or nations
  • 4.2 Transcultural and intercultural comparisons
  • 4.3 Cultures as shared constructs of knowledge
  • 5 Open questions
  • References
  • Case selection and generalization
  • 1 Requirements for selecting cases
  • 1.1 Defining the case
  • 1.2 Ways of organizing the research process: linearity vs. iteration
  • 1.3 Example: Spatial pioneers in urban areas
  • 2 Random sampling, statistical inference, and associated problems
  • 3 Purposeful sampling of multiple cases
  • 3.1 Methods of agreement and difference
  • 3.2 Criteria for selecting a specific case
  • 4 Single case studies
  • 4.1 Potential categories underlying single case studies
  • 4.2 Criteria for selecting a specific case
  • 4.3 Case selection and generalization
  • 5 Case selection as the key determinant for generalization
  • References
  • Integrating visual and verbal data
  • 1 Reasons for using diverse data in qualitative spatial research
  • 2 Verbal and visual data
  • 3 Data integration and integration strategies
  • 4 Integrating visual and verbal data
  • 4.1 Integrating separate visual and verbal data