Creative Methods for Human Geographers

Nadia von Benzon - University of Lancaster, UK
Mark Holton - University of Plymouth, UK
Catherine Wilkinson - Liverpool John Moores University, UK
Samantha Wilkinson - Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Creative Methods for Human Geographers
January 2021 | 432 pages | Sage UK
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Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research, offering

  • Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data.
  • Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles like getting ethical clearance and conducting a risk assessment.
  • Encouragement to reflect critically on the processes involved in research.

The authors provide a complete toolkit for conducting research in this field, while ensuring the most cutting-edge methods are unintimidating to the reader.





Contents

Part I: Preparing to research

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Centring reflexivity, positionality and autoethnographic practices in creative research
  • Chapter 3: Researching ‘our’ people and researching ‘other’ people
  • Chapter 4: Ethical considerations in creative research: Design, delivery and dissemination
  • Chapter 5: The practicalities of researching creatively

Part II: Creative and innovative methods

  • Chapter 6: Photography and photo elicitation as visual methods
  • Chapter 7: Moodboards and LEGO: Principles and practice in social research
  • Chapter 8: Creative approaches to mapping
  • Chapter 9: Drawing and graffiti-based approaches
  • Chapter 10: Research with sound: An audio guide
  • Chapter 11: Mobile interviews by land, air and sea
  • Chapter 12: Psychogeography and urban exploration
  • Chapter 13: Crafting
  • Chapter 14: Creative performance and practice
  • Chapter 15: Working with literary texts
  • Chapter 16: Poetic methods
  • Chapter 17: Research music: listening and composing
  • Chapter 18: Working creatively with biographies and life histories
  • Chapter 19: Mobile technology, spatial and locative media
  • Chapter 20: Mobile phones, text messaging and social media
  • Chapter 21: Creating and reappropriating apps
  • Chapter 22: Gaming and VR in geographical research
  • Chapter 23: Video ethnography
  • Chapter 24: Creative research in and with archives
  • Chapter 25: Selecting and analysing publicly-generated online content
  • Chapter 26: Curation as method

Part III: Handling creative data

  • Chapter 27: Analyzing messy data
  • Chapter 28: Showcasing creative methods in your dissertation research
  • Chapter 29: Creative dissemination

Description

Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research, offering

  • Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data.
  • Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles like getting ethical clearance and conducting a risk assessment.
  • Encouragement to reflect critically on the processes involved in research.

The authors provide a complete toolkit for conducting research in this field, while ensuring the most cutting-edge methods are unintimidating to the reader.





Contents

Part I: Preparing to research

  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Centring reflexivity, positionality and autoethnographic practices in creative research
  • Chapter 3: Researching ‘our’ people and researching ‘other’ people
  • Chapter 4: Ethical considerations in creative research: Design, delivery and dissemination
  • Chapter 5: The practicalities of researching creatively

Part II: Creative and innovative methods

  • Chapter 6: Photography and photo elicitation as visual methods
  • Chapter 7: Moodboards and LEGO: Principles and practice in social research
  • Chapter 8: Creative approaches to mapping
  • Chapter 9: Drawing and graffiti-based approaches
  • Chapter 10: Research with sound: An audio guide
  • Chapter 11: Mobile interviews by land, air and sea
  • Chapter 12: Psychogeography and urban exploration
  • Chapter 13: Crafting
  • Chapter 14: Creative performance and practice
  • Chapter 15: Working with literary texts
  • Chapter 16: Poetic methods
  • Chapter 17: Research music: listening and composing
  • Chapter 18: Working creatively with biographies and life histories
  • Chapter 19: Mobile technology, spatial and locative media
  • Chapter 20: Mobile phones, text messaging and social media
  • Chapter 21: Creating and reappropriating apps
  • Chapter 22: Gaming and VR in geographical research
  • Chapter 23: Video ethnography
  • Chapter 24: Creative research in and with archives
  • Chapter 25: Selecting and analysing publicly-generated online content
  • Chapter 26: Curation as method

Part III: Handling creative data

  • Chapter 27: Analyzing messy data
  • Chapter 28: Showcasing creative methods in your dissertation research
  • Chapter 29: Creative dissemination
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Creative Methods for Human Geographers

Nadia von Benzon , Mark Holton , Catherine Wilkinson , Samantha Wilkinson
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January 2021 | 432 pages | Sage UK

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Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research, offering

  • Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data.
  • Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles like getting ethical clearance and conducting a risk assessment.
  • Encouragement to reflect critically on the processes involved in research.

The authors provide a complete toolkit for conducting research in this field, while ensuring the most cutting-edge methods are unintimidating to the reader.






Table Of Contents:

  • Part I: Preparing to research
  • Chapter 1: Introduction
  • Chapter 2: Centring reflexivity, positionality and autoethnographic practices in creative research
  • Chapter 3: Researching ‘our’ people and researching ‘other’ people
  • Chapter 4: Ethical considerations in creative research: Design, delivery and dissemination
  • Chapter 5: The practicalities of researching creatively
  • Part II: Creative and innovative methods
  • Chapter 6: Photography and photo elicitation as visual methods
  • Chapter 7: Moodboards and LEGO: Principles and practice in social research
  • Chapter 8: Creative approaches to mapping
  • Chapter 9: Drawing and graffiti-based approaches
  • Chapter 10: Research with sound: An audio guide
  • Chapter 11: Mobile interviews by land, air and sea
  • Chapter 12: Psychogeography and urban exploration
  • Chapter 13: Crafting
  • Chapter 14: Creative performance and practice
  • Chapter 15: Working with literary texts
  • Chapter 16: Poetic methods
  • Chapter 17: Research music: listening and composing
  • Chapter 18: Working creatively with biographies and life histories
  • Chapter 19: Mobile technology, spatial and locative media
  • Chapter 20: Mobile phones, text messaging and social media
  • Chapter 21: Creating and reappropriating apps
  • Chapter 22: Gaming and VR in geographical research
  • Chapter 23: Video ethnography
  • Chapter 24: Creative research in and with archives
  • Chapter 25: Selecting and analysing publicly-generated online content
  • Chapter 26: Curation as method
  • Part III: Handling creative data
  • Chapter 27: Analyzing messy data
  • Chapter 28: Showcasing creative methods in your dissertation research
  • Chapter 29: Creative dissemination

Recent Product Reviews:

The title itself produces high expectations that are fully met. This book reflects the current debates about methods in geography in the context of cultural turn, postmodern identities, othering, positionality and research ethics, creatively implements them and promotes methodical innovation within the geographical application of methods.
Jeannine Wintzer, Institute of Geography, University of Bern, Switzerland
This exciting volume shows how students, and anyone else, can tap into the wealth of new technologies available today along with their own creativity to produce different kinds of research projects that account for a diverse and dynamic world.
Russell Prince, Massey University
This collection does two main things. Firstly, it invigorates methodological discussion in Human Geography by bringing together an exciting range of new approaches which will inspire (as well as guide) students through their research adventures. Secondly, it provides an in depth revision of some more familiar methods, through exciting updates and empirical examples.
Michael Joseph Richardson, Newcastle University

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