Chapter One. Outlining the Crime Drop -- Chapter Two. Critiquing the Crime Drop -- Chapter Three. Explaining the Crime Drop I: Developing a Case Study of Political Change in England and Wales -- Chapter Four. Explaining the Crime Drop II: Responding to Rising Crime Rates in England and Wales -- Chapter Five. Congruence Testing -- Chapter Six. Conclusion.The crime drop is one of the most importa…
Editorial; Chapter 1. A Non-binary Methodological Manoeuvre: Expert Quantitative and Novice Qualitative Researcher; Gemma Mann -- Chapter 2. Dipping Qualitative Toes into a Quantitative Worldview, Methodological Manoeuvres in a Multicultural Context; Cynthia Cowling and Celeste Lawson -- Chapter 3. Navigating the Path between Positivism and Interpretivism for Technology Academics Completing Edu…
Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Process-Oriented Ontologies and the Ethics of Affirmation -- Chapter 3. Non-Representational Theory -- Chapter 4. Performing Research -- Chapter 5. Ekphrastic Geographies -- Chapter 6. Interstices of Becoming.Utilising non-representational theories and practice-led research methods, this book serves to reclaim therapeutics as ecological, spatial and materia…
Transnational Family Life -- Urban Sociology -- European Sociology.The authors focus on families who organize their lives in transnational social spaces within and at the outer borders of Europe, to offer a new perspective on transnational family life and to advance the knowledge on borders drawn by social inequality, discrimination and political exclusion. They also discuss social mobility as …
Part 1: Overview -- History of Substance Abuse Research in the United States -- Transdisciplinary Research Perspective: A Theoretical Framework for Substance Abuse Research -- part 2: Quantitive Approaches -- Randomized Controlled Trials in Substance Abuse Treatment Research: Fundamental Aspects and New Developments in Random Assignment Strategies, Comparison/Control Conditions, and Design Ch…
1. Introduction: Transdisciplinary Environmental Engagement -- 2. The Professors -- 3. The Post Docs -- 4. The Mixed Encounter -- 5. Conclusion: How Does Transdisciplinary Practice Make a Difference?This book explores the practice of transdisciplinary research through the narratives of different individuals taking part in a project investigating local water management. The research project ran …
Preface -- Part I. Conceptional Framings of Identity in a Multifaceted World; Editor's Introduction -- Chapter 1. Many-Ways-of-Being. Identity as (Inter)Action; Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, Julie Feilberg and Aase Lyngvær Hansen -- Chapter 2. Positioning Theory and Life-Story Interviews: Discursive Fields, Gaze and Resistance; David Block -- Chapter 3. Co-Constructing the Adolescent’s Identity: A…
1. Introduction -- 2. Refiguring Techniques: Technologies, Possibilities, Emergence and an Ethics of Responsibility in Visual-digital Research -- 3. Drone Bodies: Sensual Amalgamations of the Vertical -- 4. For a Non-Linear Visual Ethnography: Reflections on the Use of i-docs as a Tool for Scientific Research -- 5. Empathetic Visuality: Go-Pros and the Video Trace -- 6. Careful Surveillance at …
Chapter 1. Launching a New Methodology for the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 2. Applying the One-dot Theory Again to the Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 3. Finding Fault with the Non-One-Dot-Theory Study of Contemporary China -- Chapter 4. Challenging Other Theories and Models in General and Those Related to Contemporary China in Particular -- Chapter 5. Sharing Some Major Findi…
1. Setting the scene for a new era of focus group research; Rosaline S. Barbour -- Part I: Using Focus Groups in New Settings -- 2. Accessing the closed world of professional football; Chris Platts and Andy Smith -- 3. Outsourcing qualitative health research; Laurence Kohn & Wendy Christiaens -- 4. Cross-cultural focus group discussions; Monique M. Hennink -- 5. Exploring Sex, HIV & ‘Sensitiv…