1st Edition
The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean
This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region.
Featuring 17 chapters, the book covers five key areas, namely Overview and Introduction; Gender, Crime, and Violence; Gender and Intimate Partner Violence; Health, Management, and Public Policy; and Migration and Tourism. Throughout the course of the book, the chapters explore how different kinds of qualitative research can be used to inform public policy and help deal with a myriad of socioeconomic problems that affect Caribbean people. The book further uses distinct approaches to showcase a diverse selection of qualitative research methods, such as autoethnography, life history, narrative enquiry, participants’ observation, grounded theory, case study, and critical discourse.
The book will be beneficial for students and scholars both from the Caribbean and internationally who are engaged in the conduct of qualitative empirical enquiry. It will further hold appeal to advanced undergraduate level classes and postgraduate students along with scholars in the fields of social sciences and education.
Introduction
Corin Bailey and Roy McCree
1. Caribbean Qualitative Research in Historical Perspective: From Colonialism to Independence, 1953–2009
Roy McCree
Section 1: Gender, Crime, and Violence
2. Telling the Right Story to Get the Right Law: Using Qualitative Frame Analysis to Get Better Rape Law
Janeille Zorina Matthews
3. An Analytic Autoethnography of Recidivism as a Key Performance Indicator in a Caribbean Context
Dacia Leslie
4. Narratives of Fear among Caribbean Men in University: A Qualitative Exploration of Fear of Crime Using the Free Association Narrative Method
Corin Bailey
5. (Re)Producing Knowledge from the Margins: Feminist Standpoint Research Methodology with Caribbean Women and Girls
Sheria Myrie & Oral Robinson
Section 2: Gender and Intimate Partner Violence (IPV)
6. Fathering for Cohesive Families and Safer Communities: A Qualitative Study of Jamaican Men and Masculinities
Natasha Mortley
7. Tracing Colonial Violence in Women-Loving Women’s Relations: Towards a Decolonial Approach
Preity Kumar
8. Situating Risk and Responses: A Post-Structural Feminist Exploration of Intimate Partner Violence
Talia Esnard, Nirmal Maraj, and Haymatee Jaleel
Section 3: Health, Management, and Public Policy
9. Using a Phenomenological Approach to Understand the Socioecological Factors Influencing Childhood Obesity in the Small Island Developing State of Barbados
Heather Harewood and Natalie Greaves
10. Caribbean Internet Exchange Points and Policy Implementation: A Case Study of Curaçao and Grenada
Claire C. Craig, Roy McCree, and Arlene Bailey
11. Deployment of Spirituality and Religion in Barbados During the Time of COVID-19
Latoya Lazarus
12. Constructivist Grounded Theory: A Contemporary Lens for Caribbean Social Research
Balraj Kistow
13. Constructing the Fat Female Body through Female Body, (Re)presentations in Soca Lyrics
Keisha Samlal
Section 4: Migration and Tourism
14. "I Wasn’t Unusual, At All": An Oral History of Departure and Arrival to Windrush Britain
Treviene A. Harris
15. Navigating Data "Silence(r)s": Researching Migration in the Caribbean
Shiva S. Mohan and Natalie Dietrich Jones
16. Deskilling of Venezuelan Immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago
Maria-José Flor-Ágreda
17. The Forgotten Peoples?: A Qualitative Content Analysis of the Representation of the First Peoples in Trinidad and Tobago’s Destination Marketing
Leslie-Ann Jordan and Acolla Lewis-Cameron
Discussion: Towards a Decolonial Perspective on Qualitative Research
Latoya Lazarus & Natalie Dietrich-Jones
Biography
Corin Bailey is a Professor of Sociology, Crime and Social inequality at the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Security, located at UWI, Regional Headquarters, Mona Campus, Jamaica.
Roy McCree is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Latoya Lazarus is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
Natalie Dietrich Jones is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.
