Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research


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Vol 9, No 2 (2008): Performative Social Science






Edited by Kip Jones (Special Issue Editor) and Mary Gergen, John J. Guiney Yallop, Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Brian Roberts & Peter Wright (Co-Editors)

Thematic Issue

Editorial: Overview of the Performative Social Science Special Issue Abstract HTML PDF
John J. Guiney Yallop, Irene Lopez de Vallejo, Peter Wright
Editorial: A Conversation about Performative Social Science Abstract HTML PDF
Mary Gergen, Kip Jones
Performative Social Science: A Consideration of Skills, Purpose and Context Abstract HTML PDF
Brian Roberts
Insights Through Performative Approaches Abstract HTML PDF
Martina Battisti, Tanja Eiselen
What Does It Take? Auto/biography as Performative PhD Thesis Abstract HTML PDF
Sally Berridge
The Citizens' Exhibition: A Combination of Socio-scientific, Participative and Artistic Elements Abstract HTML PDF
Birgit Böhm, Heiner Legewie, Hans-Liudger Dienel
Performance, Art and Ethnography Abstract HTML PDF
Sarah Butler
Poetic Arrivals and Departures: Bodying the Ethnographic Field in Verse Abstract HTML PDF
Devika Chawla
Parody as a Performative Analytic: Beyond Performativity as Metadiscourse Abstract HTML PDF
Scott Cherry
Wordless Silence of Poetic Mind: Outlining and Visualising Poetic Experiences through Artmaking Abstract HTML PDF
Gil Dekel
Time, Non-representational Theory and the "Performative Turn"—Towards a New Methodology in Qualitative Social Research Abstract HTML PDF
Peter Dirksmeier, Ilse Helbrecht
From Fairytales to Spherecards: Towards a New Research Methodology for Improving Knowledge Productivity Abstract PDF
Anja Doornbos, Marloes van Rooij, Maaike Smit, Suzanne Verdonschot
Nurturing a Performative Self Abstract HTML PDF
Kitrina Douglas, David Carless
The Dance of the Now—Poetics of Everyday Human Movement Abstract HTML PDF
Lis Engel
Performativity, Memory and Commemoration: The Experience of MarchaRearme in Post-dictatorial Chile Abstract
Marcia Escobar Nieto, Roberto Fernández Droguett
Blood and Books: Performing Code Switching Abstract HTML PDF
Jeff Friedman
Interrogating the Conventional Boundaries of Research Methods in Social Sciences: The Role of Visual Representation in Ethnography Abstract HTML PDF
Nel Glass
Literary Genres in Social Life: A Narrative, Audio-visual and Poetic Approach Abstract
Luis Felipe González Gutiérrez
Performing Proximity—"Learning To Fly" Abstract HTML PDF
Felicia Herrschaft
Photography as a Performance Abstract HTML PDF
Gunilla Holm
Performing Communit(y)ies Abstract HTML PDF
Debbie Horsfall
Locating the Gap between Grace and Terror: Performative Research and Spectral Images of (and on) the Road Abstract HTML PDF
Rebecca M. Kennerly
The Performative Manifestation of a Research Identity: Storying the Journey Through Poetry Abstract HTML PDF
Jennifer L. Lapum
A Sketchbook of Memories Abstract HTML PDF
Karen V. Lee
A Good Teacher Abstract HTML PDF
Patrick J. Lewis
Collective Imagining: Collaborative Story Telling through Image Theater Abstract HTML PDF
Warren Linds, Elinor Vettraino
Aesthetically Pleasing, but it's (not) Research: Responding Poetically to a Question of Methodology Abstract PDF
Sarah K. MacKenzie
Translational Performances: Toward Relevant, Engaging, and Empowering Social Science Abstract HTML PDF
Michelle Miller-Day
Transnational Refugees: The Transformative Role of Art? Abstract HTML PDF
Maggie O'Neill
And We Are Still Walking … When a Protest Walk Becomes a Step Towards Research on the Move Abstract HTML PDF
Guylaine Racine, Karoline Truchon, Merdad Hage
The Poetry of Holocaust Survivor Testimony: Towards a New Performative Social Science Abstract HTML PDF
Frances Rapport
The Doctor's Tale: Enacted Workspace and the General Practitioner Abstract HTML PDF
Frances Rapport, Marcus A. Doel, Paul Wainwright
Research Less Violent? Or the Ethics of Performative Social Science Abstract HTML PDF
Sabi Redwood
The Making of Harry and Susie Get Married?: A Performative Approach to Data Collection Abstract HTML PDF
Yvonne Robinson
The Show with the Voice: An [Au]/-[o]-tophonographic Parody Abstract HTML PDF
David D.J. Sander Scheidt
Performing My Recovery: A Play of Chaos, Restitution, and Quest After Traumatic Brain Injury Abstract HTML PDF
Claire Smith
Performative Research in Art Education: Scenes from the Seminar "Exploring Performative Rituals in City Space" Abstract HTML PDF
Ulrike Stutz
Narrative Acts: Telling Tales of Life and Love with the Wrong Gender Abstract HTML PDF
James Valentine
Mennocostal Musings: Poetic Inquiry and Performance in Narrative Research Abstract HTML PDF
Natasha G. Wiebe
Body Contact and Body Language: Moments of Personal Development and Social and Cultural Learning Processes in Movement Psychology and Education Abstract PDF
Helle Winther
The Proof of the Pudding is in the Eating—but What was the Pudding in the First Place? A Proven Unconferencing Approach in Search of Its Theoretical Foundations Abstract HTML PDF
Patricia Wolf, Peter Troxler
Piecing Together—A Methodological Bricolage Abstract HTML PDF
Ainslie Yardley

Single Contributions

From Dialoguing with Data to Finding One's Own Way of Telling the Story. On Grounded Theory Methodology Coding Procedures Abstract
Charles Berg, Marianne Milmeister
Speech Recognition Software—An Improvement to the Transcription Process? Abstract
Thorsten Dresing, Thorsten Pehl, Claudia Lombardo
Tracking Transition: Issues in Asynchronous E-Mail Interviewing Abstract HTML PDF
Muir Houston
Making Thinking Visible with Atlas.ti: Computer Assisted Qualitative Analysis as Textual Practices Abstract HTML PDF
Zdeněk Konopásek
A Qualitative Study of the Effects of Residential Mobility on the Quality of Life Among the Elderly Abstract
Raúl Lardiés Bosque
The Sense of Family: A Narrative of Three Generations Abstract
Leonor Mora Salas
The Role of the Curiosity in Interviews with Drug Users Abstract HTML PDF
Jozsef Racz
"Sportstudentin beim Diskuswurf" ["Discus-throwing Female Sports Student"]. The Construction of the Female Body in National Socialism Abstract
Adrian Schmidtke
The Workplace as an Arena for Identity Affirmation and Social Integration of Immigrants Abstract HTML PDF
Marko Valenta

FQS Debate: Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods

Things Really Exist? A Survival-Kit for Prospective Phenomenologists Abstract
Dirk Koob

FQS Reviews

Review Essay: Extremist Right-Wing Orientation and Youth Violence in the Context of Psychologically based Biography Research Abstract
Silke Baer
Review: Peter Cloos & Werner Thole (Eds.) (2006). Ethnografische Zugänge. Professions- und adressatInnenbezogene Forschung im Kontext von Pädagogik [Ethnographic Approaches. Research on Professions and Adressees the Context of Educational Science] Abstract
Sabine Bollig
Review: Johnny Saldaña (2005). Ethnodrama: An Anthology of Reality Theatre Abstract HTML PDF
June Rabson Hare
Review: Gabriele Rosenthal (2005). Interpretative Sozialforschung. Eine Einführung [Interpretative Social Research: An Introduction] Abstract
Matthias Kötter
Review: Christine Schwarz (2006). Evaluation as Modern Ritual: On the Ambivalence of Societal Rationalisation Using the Example of Virtual University Projects / Udo Kuckartz, Thorsten Dresing, Stefan Rädiker & Claus Stefer (2007). Qualitative Evaluation Abstract
Christian Lüders
Review Essay: Making a Mess with Situational Analysis? Abstract HTML PDF
Tom Mathar
Review Essay: The New Complexity: Encyclopedias, Glossaries and Dictionaries on Qualitative Research Abstract
Günter Mey
Review: Carlos Kölbl (2004). Geschichtsbewußtsein im Jugendalter. Grundzüge einer Entwicklungspsychologie historischer Sinnbildung [Historical Consciousness in Adolescence. Groundwork for a Psychology of the Development of Historical Perceptiveness] Abstract
Wilhelm Schwendemann
Review: Susanne Spindler (2006). Corpus delicti. Männlichkeit, Rassismus und Kriminalisierung im Alltag jugendlicher Migranten [Corpus Delicti. Masculinity, Racism and Criminalization in the Everyday Life of Juvenile Migrants] Abstract
Julia Simonson

FQS Conferences

Conference Essay: The Field of Discourse Research in the Process of Becoming Established Abstract
Susann Fegter, Antje Langer
Conference Report: "Health Policy and Programs Evaluative Research for Social Change". An Ibero-American Symposium Abstract HTML PDF
Francisco Mercado-Martínez, Denise Gastaldo, Maria Lúcia Bosi, Sergio Carvalho, Esther Wiesenfeld, Euclides Sánchez, Irma Xóchitl Fuentes-Uribe
Conference Essay: Is There a "Legitimation Crisis" in Qualitative Methods? Abstract HTML PDF
Shalva Weil