Full Description
Situational Analysis (SA) uses analytic maps of the situation, processes and relations identified using approaches pioneered in Grounded Theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke, with Rachel Washburn and Carrie Friese, show how the method can be, and has been, used in a variety of critical qualitative studies.
The entirely new second edition of this book offers several chapters on the method and new introductory material from the editors about developments in using SA in qualitative inquiry. Part I introduces readers to the method of SA, discussing recent developments in the field. Part II offers five new chapters about various facets of the SA method, including a history of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, SA as critical pragmatist interactionism, using SA in managing a mixed-methods project, and SA mapping in the social policy classroom and in clinical counseling as innovatively collaborative analysis. Part III offers six new exemplary research articles drawn from energy research and international relations, public health research methods, disabled access to public transportation, participation in conservation in a biosphere reserve, and PTSD and the military. Authors' reflections on their experiences in using the method are also included.
These carefully selected new readings vividly demonstrate how widely this method has travelled, successfully meeting the needs of diverse researchers seeking an innovative relational approach to critically analyzing a wide array of data. Situational Analysis in Practice will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students practicing the SA method across the social sciences, including sociology and healthcare among other disciplines, as well as research scholars interested in qualitative inquiry.
Contents
PART I: INTRODUCING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS 1. Introducing Situational Analysis PART II: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AS AN INTERPRETIVE METHOD 2. Adele E. Clarke. (2019). "Situating Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis in Interpretive Qualitative Inquiry." 3. Carrie Friese, Adele E. Clarke & Rachel Washburn. (2021). "Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism." 4. Carrie Friese. "Reflections on Using SA in a Large, Mixed-Methods Project: 'Care as Science: The Role of Animal Husbandry in Translational Medicine.'" 5. Richard Holtzman. (2019). "Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking." 6. Tanya E. Mudry, Vanessa Vegter, Tom Strong. "Creative Mapping Possibilities: Situational Analysis as a Resource for Counselling" PART III: EXEMPLARS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH WITH REFLECTIONS 7. Sarah Glück (2018) "Making Energy Cultures Visible with Situational Analysis." Sarah Glück "Reflections on Choreographing Messy and Complex Situations in Energy Research" 8. Wanda Martin, Bernie Pauly, & Marjorie MacDonald. (2016). "Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research." Wanda Martin "Reflections on Why and How I Came to Use Situational Analysis" Situational and/or Relational Map Focus 9. Hanna Lempinen: "Reflections on (Doing) Situational Analysis at the Margins of International Relations" Social Worlds/Arenas Map Focus 10. Andres Felipe Valderrama Pineda. (2015). "Disabilities, the Design of Urban Transport Systems and the City: A Situational Analysis." Andres Valderrama: "Reflections on Using Situational Analysis to Study Disabled Access to Public Transport" 11. Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Kurt Thumlert & Suzanne de Castell (2016): "Re-Mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)-coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico." Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Suzanne de Castell and Kurt Thumlert "Reflections on 'Re-mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico'" 12. Michael Fisher. (2014). "PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence." Michael Fisher: "Reflections on Mapping Discourses of PTSD Prevalence"
