1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

328 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

328 Pages 13 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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.