Postmodern Interviewing [Paperback]

Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, a conversation with diverse purposes in which the communicative format is constructed as much within the interview conversation as it stems from predesignated research interests. It provides cutting-edge discussions of emerging horizons, featuring reflexivity, poetics, and power, along with discussions of new ways of gathering experiential knowledge. Employing concepts from anthropology, family studies, history, and sociology, the contributors present the ambitious new directions in which the interview has gone, such as:

• How the interview process is refracted through the lens of language, knowledge, culture, and difference
• How the dividing line between fact and fiction is blurred to promote richer understanding
• How standardized representation has given way to representational invention

This volume is comprised of chapters from the Handbook of Interview Research (Gubrium and Holstein, SAGE, 2001). The companion volume, Inside Interviewing (SAGE, 2003), is also comprised of chapters from the Handbook.

Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, providing cutting edge discussions of new horizons in inteviews, featuring reflexivity, poetics, and power as new ways of gathering experiential knowledge.INTRODUCTION
Ch. 1. Postmodern Sensibilities - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
PART I: NEW HORIZONS
Ch. 2. From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society - Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Ch. 3. Postmodern Trends in Interviewing - Andrea Fontana
Ch. 4. Active Interviewing - James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Ch. 5. Internet Interviewing - Chris Mann lã'