15 articles in this issue
Estibaliz Aberasturi-Apraiz,Jose Miguel Correa Gorospe,Asunción Martínez-Arbelaiz
As educational researchers, we hold monthly meetings to discuss our methodological and personal feelings and uncertainties while transitioning from a qualitative to a post-qualitative stance, which involved using artistic/cartographic methods. This shift ... see more
Celina Carter
In this article, I critically investigate the question, "Are dance and choreography generative methods of inquiry?" To do this, I draw on my experience analyzing and translating field notes about a role transition experience using dance-based methods. I e... see more
Nick Cimini
Attempts to apply social theory to the study of empirical cases are too often reduced to treating theory as formula. Complex theoretical ideas are torn from the contexts of their production, selectively interpreted or even misinterpreted, and applied uncr... see more
Jason DeHart,Mandie B. Dunn
In this article, we share our different perspectives using the philosophical lens of phenomenology to shape a hermeneutic research methodology considering the experiences of English teachers using arts-based or aesthetic pedagogy. The consideration includ... see more
John V. Flynn,Claire E. Kendall,Lisa M. Boucher,Michael Louis Fitzgerald,Katharine Larose-Hébert,Alana Martin,Christine Lalonde,Dave Pineau,Jenn Bigelow,Tiffany Rose,Rob Boyd,Mark Tyndall,Zack Marshall
The Life Story Board (LSB) is a visual tool used in therapeutic circumstances to co-construct a lifescape that represents the personal, relational and temporal aspects of a person's lived experiences. We conducted a study of the drug use and harm reductio... see more
Julia Gray,Sherry L. Dupuis,Pia Kontos,Christine Jonas-Simpson,Gail Mitchell
In this article, we provide an example of a performance-research project to advance understandings of the ways artistic and scientific processes work in conversation. Drawing on the research-informed play Cracked: New Light on Dementia, we consider the in... see more
Lisa Janotta
In this article, I discuss moralizations as attitudes and habits of valuation. As I reconstructed the implicit knowledge in narratives about professional case work, these kind of moralizations became apparent. My data include interviews with federal polic... see more
Till Jansen,Martin Feißt,Werner Vogd
Ambiguity and indexicality of utterances are key challenges in qualitative research. In this article we propose "logical condensation" as a novel approach to this challenge. Logical condensation reduces a text to its propositional structure. This techniqu... see more
Uwe Krähnke
The career officers of East Germany's secret police, the Ministry for State Security (MfS), is regarded to have been the most aggressive defender of the regime's political ideology. Although historians repeatedly assert that this group was very robustly i... see more
Christine Lohmeier
In this article, I consider writing by research participants as a method of gathering data on sensitive, difficult or shameful topics. In doing so, I draw on the example of a research project on family narratives and family secrets. Gathering data on hidd... see more
Debora Niermann
In this article, I argue for an updating of the transatlantic reception of ethnography with the aid of a thick description of the current ethnographic landscape in the USA. Ethnographers working in the interactional Chicago School are facing an essential ... see more
Angela Pohlmann
In the past few years, practice theories have been increasingly employed within social scientific research on the environment and sustainability. Thereby, researchers have not only illustrated the valuable insights that can be made, based on these theorie... see more
Michael Wutzler
The evolution of gender relations illustrates both a growing equality between males and females and, yet, a persistence of male dominance. Marriage is therein ascribed perpetuating effects. The choice of the surname at marriage allows the analysis of the ... see more
Andrea D. Bührmann,Yvonne Franke
Social laboratories for testing policy instruments in the public space have become increasingly popular over the last decade. In the volumes reviewed here, the authors evaluated a series of social laboratories initiated in Baden-Wurttemberg. Both volumes ... see more
Mei-Chen Spiegelberg
In March 2019, the German DIY store chain Hornbach published on the online video hosting platform YouTube, an advertisement named "The Smell of Spring." The video led to a heated online debate and triggered a transnational wave of indignation in various m... see more