1st Edition

Humanizing Qualitative Research

Edited By Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, Marisa Westbrook Copyright 2027
130 Pages
by Routledge

130 Pages
by Routledge

Humanizing Qualitative Research foregrounds the lived experiences, identities, and positionalities of qualitative researchers and participants, challenging the disembodied, procedural approaches that dominate many methods texts. Rather than offering a technical manual, the book emphasizes the humanity at the heart of qualitative inquiry and examines how emotions, identities, and ethics shape... Read more

Notes on Contributors

Chapter 1: Introduction by Hyeyoung Oh Nelson and Marisa Westbrook

Chapter 2: The Afro-Latino “Triple-Consciousness” as a Methodological Tool by Randol Contreras

Chapter 3: When Our Aliveness Wells Up So Piercingly We Cannot Quiet It by Danielle Maude Littman

Chapter 4: Embodying the Motor City: Situating Myself, the ‘Body’ and ‘Place’ in Qualitative Research by Greer A. Hamilton

Chapter 5: Doing Intimacy and the Permeability of Public and Private Spheres by Laura A. Orrico

Chapter 6: What We Owe Community by Sebastian Espinal, Yoheidy Feliz, Adelio Lechuga-Kanapilly, Audrey Liu, Fernando A. León, and Phi Hong Su

Chapter 7: Conclusion by Hyeyoung Oh Nelson and Marisa Westbrook

Appendix: Vignettes by Stephanie Chamberlin, Paulina Erices Ocampo, Anne Taylor and Shannon Whittaker

Index

Biography

Hyeyoung Oh Nelson, PhD,is Assistant Professor of Public Health in the Department of Health and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Colorado-Denver, USA. She is the author of Conflicted Care (Stanford University Press, 2022) and has published widely on qualitative research in health contexts.

Marisa Westbrook, PhD, MPH, is Assistant Professor of Community Health/Health Promotion at the OHSU-PSU School of Public Health, Portland State University, USA. A public health social scientist, her work explores community engagement, housing insecurity, and the process of qualitative research.