The Craft of Knowledge Experiences of Living with Data [Hardcover]

This book is a contribution to contemporary debates on social research with a unique focus on the relationship between methods and the crafting of knowledge. Nine experienced researchers from different disciplines have come together to explore what really matters to them in the process of doing qualitative research.Introduction; Jenny Hockey, Allison James and Carol Smart PART I: THE CHANGING POLITICS AND CONTEXT OF RESEARCH 1. 'Bias Binding': Re-calling Creativity in Qualitative Research; Simone Abram 2. Possession: Research Practice in the Shadow of the Archive; Rachel Thomson 3. Writing as a Movement of Imagination, Reading as Companionship in Thought; Les Back PART II: RESEARCH AND THE CRAFTING OF KNOWLEDGE 4. Jigsaws with Missing Pieces: Research Imagination(s) and Children's Lives; Allison James 5. The Social Life of Interview Material; Jenny Hockey 6. Voice, History and Vertigo: Doing Justice to the Dead through Imaginative Conversation; Nigel Rapport PART III: LIVING WITH DATA 7. Fragments: Living with Other People's Lives as Analytic Practice; Carol Smart 8. Being in the Field: Doing Research; Kath Woodward 9. Living with the Dead; Carolyn SteedmanSimone Abram, Reader at Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Durham, UKLes Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UKJennifer Mason, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UKNigel Rapport, Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UKCarolyn Steedman, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UKRachel Thomson, Professor at the University of Sussex, UKKath Woodward, Professor Sociology at the Open University, UK