ABSTRACT
Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization, researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross-, inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and sameness are understood and negotiated within the interview situation, as well as the power structures at play within qualitative research, and the role that reflexivity plays in mediating these.
What does it mean to interview Black women as a Black woman? How is ethnicity negotiated across various qualitative research encounters? How are differences bridged or asserted in feminist interviewing? These are just some of the questions explored in the chapters in this volume. Drawing on their recent research, the contributors detail their experiences of engaging in qualitative interviewing and examine how they negotiated the various dilemmas they encountered. The contributions challenge some of the assumptions made in early feminist work on interviewing, providing nuanced accounts of actual research experiences.
This volume explores the practice and implications of conducting cross-, inter- and intra-cultural interviewing, bringing together researchers from a range of disciplines and countries to describe and analyse both its vicissitudes and its advantages.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |63 pages
Cross-cultural interviewing
chapter |14 pages
Interviewing across cultures
part |50 pages
Interviewing in another culture
chapter |17 pages
Being an outsider
chapter |16 pages
Dealing with being the outsider in qualitative interviewing
part |28 pages
Intra-cultural interviewing
chapter |13 pages
Interviewing outsiders as an in-/outsider
chapter |13 pages
‘So what do YOU want to talk about?'
part |69 pages
The vicissitudes of interviewing ‘the same'