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Creative Methods for Human Geographers Nadia von Benzon

Creative Methods for Human Geographers By Nadia von Benzon

Creative Methods for Human Geographers by Nadia von Benzon


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Creative Methods for Human Geographers Summary

Creative Methods for Human Geographers by Nadia von Benzon

Introducing a broad range of innovative and creative qualitative methods, this accessible book shows you how to use them in research project while providing straightforward advice on how to approach every step of the process; from planning and organisation to writing up and disseminating research, offering

  • Demonstration of creative methods using both primary or secondary data.
  • Practical guidance on overcoming common hurdles like getting ethical clearance and conducting a risk assessment.
  • Encouragement to reflect critically on the processes involved in research.

The authors provide a complete toolkit for conducting research in this field, while ensuring the most cutting-edge methods are unintimidating to the reader.

Creative Methods for Human Geographers Reviews

This exciting volume shows how students, and anyone else, can tap into the wealth of new technologies available today along with their own creativity to produce different kinds of research projects that account for a diverse and dynamic world. -- Russell Prince
This collection does two main things. Firstly, it invigorates methodological discussion in Human Geography by bringing together an exciting range of new approaches which will inspire (as well as guide) students through their research adventures. Secondly, it provides an in depth revision of some more familiar methods, through exciting updates and empirical examples. -- Michael Joseph Richardson

About Nadia von Benzon

Nadia von Benzon is a Lecturer in Human Geography at Lancaster University with particular interest in the social geographies of childhood, youth and motherhood, and in disability and health geography and therapeutic landscapes. She recently edited the volumes Intersectionality and Difference in Childhood and Youth: Global Perspectives with Catherine Wilkinson, published in Routledge's Spaces of Childhood and Youth series. Nadia is currently writing up recent research in the area of children's historical geography exploring Victorian reformatory farms and child migration to New Zealand and embarking in online research exploring birth stories. Mark Holton is a social and cultural geographer at the University of Plymouth. His research interests address the geographies of higher education students and focuses on mobility, belonging and identity. Mark's publications have covered a range of topics, from mobilities and belonging in 21st Century higher education, to youth transitions, international student mobility and traditional or non-traditional student identities. He recently co-authored a book entitled Everyday Mobile Belonging: Theorising Higher Education Student Mobilities (Bloomsbury Academic). Catherine Wilkinson is a Senior Lecturer in Education at Liverpool John Moores University. Catherine works at the intersection of a range of research approaches, including: mixed methods, ethnographic and participatory research. Catherine's primary research interests are children's health experiences; young people and identity; community radio; and innovative methods. Catherine has an established reputation for making cutting-edge contributions, conceptually and methodologically, to research 'with' children and young people and uses this research to inspire teaching she delivers. Samantha Wilkinson is a senior lecturer in Childhood, Youth and Education Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University. Samantha has written extensively of a range of themes including children and young people's geographies and mobilities; young men's performances of masculinities; home care for people with dementia; animal geographies; and home sharing network Airbnb. Through the research she conducts she uses innovative methodological approaches, including: joint ethnography; diaries; drawing elicitation interviews; mobile phone methods; and (auto)ethnography.

Table of Contents

Part I: Preparing to research Chapter 1: Introduction - Nadia von Benzon, Mark Holton, Catherine Wilkinson and Samantha Wilkinson Chapter 2: Centring reflexivity, positionality and autoethnographic practices in creative research - John Horton Chapter 3: Researching 'our' people and researching 'other' people - Chris Philo, Louise Boyle and Mark Lucherini Chapter 4: Ethical considerations in creative research: Design, delivery and dissemination - Sarah Marie Hall, Gemma Sou and Laura Pottinger Chapter 5: The practicalities of researching creatively - Tracy Hayes Part II: Creative and innovative methods Chapter 6: Photography and photo elicitation as visual methods - Noora Pyyry, Markus Hilander and Sirpa Tani Chapter 7: Moodboards and LEGO: Principles and practice in social research - Helena Pimlott-Wilson and Jo Hickman-Dunne Chapter 8: Creative approaches to mapping - Amy Mulvenna and Chris Perkins Chapter 9: Drawing and graffiti-based approaches - Robin Kearns, Kyle Eggleton, Annie van der Plas and Tara Coleman Chapter 10: Research with sound: An audio guide - Geraint Rhys Whittaker and Kimberley Peters Chapter 11: Mobile interviews by land, air and sea - Mark Riley, Jennifer Turner, Sam Hayes and Kimberley Peters Chapter 12: Psychogeography and urban exploration - Morag Rose and Jane Samuels Chapter 13: Crafting - Cassie Ogden and Katherine Harrison Chapter 14: Creative performance and practice - Sofie Narbed Chapter 15: Working with literary texts - Nichola Harmer Chapter 16: Poetic methods - Gabriel Eshun and Clare Madge Chapter 17: Research music: listening and composing - Gerraint Rhys Whittaker and Kimberley Peters Chapter 18: Working creatively with biographies and life histories - Laura Fenton and Signe Ravn Chapter 19: Mobile technology, spatial and locative media - Mike Duggan Chapter 20: Mobile phones, text messaging and social media - Jamie Halliwell and Samantha Wilkinson Chapter 21: Creating and reappropriating apps - Mark Holton Chapter 22: Gaming and VR in geographical research - Phil Jones and Tess Osborne Chapter 23: Video ethnography - Thomas Aneurin Smith and Ria Ann Dunkley Chapter 24: Creative research in and with archives - Matthew F. Rech Chapter 25: Selecting and analysing publicly-generated online content - Catherine Wilkinson and Nadia von Benzon Chapter 26: Curation as method - Francesca Church, Hilary Geoghegan and Rhi Smith Part III: Handling creative data Chapter 27: Analyzing messy data - Nadia von Benzon and Kimberley O'Sullivan Chapter 28: Showcasing creative methods in your dissertation research - Pearlin Teow and Mark Holton Chapter 29: Creative dissemination - Catherine Wilkinson with Matthew Benwell, Bernie Carter, Lorna Brooks, Andy Davies, Bethan Evans, Sergio A. Silverio and Greg Thomas

Additional information

GOR013684898
9781526496973
1526496976
Creative Methods for Human Geographers by Nadia von Benzon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
SAGE Publications Ltd
2021-02-03
432
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