Turning Points in Qualitative Research

This is a book of signposts of key turning points of Gregory Bateson's 'knots tied in a handkerchief.' Each article reproduced in this volume edited by leading qualitative methodologists Lincoln and Denzin represents one of these turning points in qualitative research a revolution in the way research is conceptualized and practiced. Authority representation legitimation ethics methods presentation even the purpose of qualitative research have all been transformed by these articles and the authors who penned them. Bringing together the work of scholars from Haraway to Geertz Mead to Mishler Clifford to Conquergood Laurel Richardson to Miles Richardson the editors are able trace the changes in the discipline over the past five decades. A necessary addition to the shelf of all researchers it will also be a key textbook for training the next generation of scholars in the history and trajectory of qualitative research.