1st Edition

Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies

Edited By Nancy E. Fenton, Jamie Baxter Copyright 2016
286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

286 Pages
by Routledge

Health geographers are increasingly turning to a diverse range of interpretative methodologies to explore the complexities of health, illness, space and place to gain more comprehensive understandings of well-being and broader social models of health and health care. Drawing upon postmodernism, many health geographers are concerned with issues of representation, the body and health care policy.... Read more

1. Praxis in Qualitative Health Geography



Jamie Baxter and Nancy E. Fenton





PART 1: REPRESENTATION, ETHICS AND POWER



2. Placing Narrative Correspondence in the Geographer’s Toolbox: Insights from Care Research in New Zealand



Christine Milligan



3. Photo Elicitation as Method: A Participatory Approach



Tara Coleman



4. Ethics and Activism in Environment and Health Research



Sarah A. Mason, Chad Walker, Jamie Baxter, Isaac Luginaah





PART 2: REPRESENTATION, SELF AND COMMUNITY





5. Writing Illness through Feminist Autobiographical Analysis



Pamela Moss



6. Community Capacity Building through Qualitative Methodologies



Sarah A. Lovell, Mark W. Rosenberg



7. Walking in Their Shoes: Utilizing Go-Along Interviews to Explore Participant Engagement with Local Space



Jennifer Dean





PART 3: REPRESENTATION THROUGH VISUAL MEDIA



8. What Can Participant-Generated Drawing Add to Health Geography’s Qualitative Palette?



Stephanie E. Coen



9. Applying Decolonizing Methodologies in Environment-Health Research: A Community-Based Film Project with Anishinabe Communities



Chantelle A.M. Richmond



10. Not Another Interview! Using Photovoice and Digital Stories as Props in Participatory Health Geography Research



Heather Castleden, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, Aaron Franks



11 Media and Framing: Processes and Challenges



S. Michelle Driedger, Theresa Garvin





PART 4: (NON)REPRESENTATION, AFFECT AND SOCIAL LIFE



12. From The Pump to Senescence: Two Musical Acts of More-Than-Representational ‘Acting Into’ and ‘Building New’ Life



Gavin J. Andrews, Eric Drass



13. Managing and Overcoming the Challenges of Qualitative Research on Palliative Family Caregivers



Allison Williams



14. Informal Caregiving on the Move: Examining the Experiences of Canadian Medical Tourists’ Caregiver-Companions from Patients’ Perspectives



Valerie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore



15 Conclusion



Robin Kearns

Biography

Nancy E. Fenton is Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, Canada, involved in interdisciplinary qualitative health research investigating the relationship between the environment and health as it relates to risk perception, particularly among children and youth.



Jamie Baxter is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Western University, Canada. His research interests include: the social construction of risks from technological hazards, community responses to hazards, environment and health, noxious facility siting and social science research methodology.