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Qualitative Research in Malaysia: Bringing Voices from the Margins to the Mainstream book cover

1st Edition

Qualitative Research in Malaysia Bringing Voices from the Margins to the Mainstream

Edited By Su Li Chong Copyright 2025
240 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

240 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm. It showcases how researchers in Malaysia, who are often expected to acquiesce to mainstream ways of designing, conducting and disseminating research, rise above methodological hegemony to carve out a different but meaningful path in order to represent the voice of the voiceless. In this... Read more

Contents

Lists of figures

List of tables

List of contributors 

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

SECTION 1: Forwarding Qualitative Design

1. Malaysia’s knowledge journey: National Epistemological Moulding (NEM) and social research

               Su Li Chong

2. Unfolding stories: Narratives of women with breast-cancer

               Wan Hasliza Wan Mamat

3. Media diary method: Navigating the untold world of young Malaysians’ use of media for identity formation

               Haryati Abdul Karim

4. Venturing out of “the norm”: Challenges with flexibility and subjectivity of qualitative research design

               Kalvina A/P Chelladorai

               Wen Yea Hwong

5. Between the ‘flying rocks’: How narratives of a rural Sarawak community’s collective anger shifted an impact study’s methodological design

               Haslina Hashim

               Noor’ain Aini

               Linda Alfarero Lumayag

6. Seeing anew: Transitioning from positivism to interpretivism

               Jeffrey K. L. Yee

SECTION 2: Making use of rigour

7. Reconciling personal beliefs with the realities of grant applications: an early career qualitative researcher’s narrative

               Jia Wei Lim

8. Qualitative research & publications in Malaysia: Some patterns and perspectives

               Su Li Chong

               Dahlia Janan

9. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: Life as a qualitative researcher in a positivist jungle

               Balvinder Kaur Kler

SECTION 3: Anchoring in philosophy and axiology

10. Qualitative methodology to examine decision-making processes trans men utilise in becoming men

               Vizla Kumaresan

11. Dealing with sensitive and distressing data: A perspective from online sexism discourse researchers

               Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan

12. Lessons learned on sensitivity and ethics through interviewing repeat students

               Chan Choong Foong

13. Overcoming challenges and sensitivities surrounding sexual health topic

               Siti Hazariah Abdul Hamid

14. Treading carefully in murky waters: Sensitivities and sensibilities in research on ethnicity and race in Malaysia

               Mitshel Lino

Index

Biography

Su Li Chong is Senior Lecturer at Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS (UTP), Malaysia. She is Head of UTP’s University Social Responsibility (Education Pillar). She is also President of Qualitative Research Association of Malaysia (QRAM). She obtained an MPhil and a PhD in Education from University of Cambridge, UK. Her research interests are in literacy and language education.

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