Full Description
This edited volume is a systematic collection of research initiatives in the qualitative research paradigm. It showcases how researchers in Malaysia, who are often expected to acquiesce to mainstream ways of designing, conducting and disseminating research, rise above methodological hegemony to carve out a different but meaningful path in order to represent the voice of the voiceless.
In this book, accounts of paradigmatic shifts, applications of philosophical rigour and attention to values-laden inquiry demonstrate how qualitative research can be successfully conducted and reported, revealing insights which profoundly re-shape research design and address ethical sensitivities in social research. The conclusions drawn from the chapters form the rallying cry of qualitative researchers who acknowledge that it is their responsibility to enlighten those who are gatekeepers to the national research agenda, about the strength and legitimacy of the qualitative research paradigm. From a global standpoint, this book functions as a foil to show how in a context not systematically underpinned by critical dialogues of Western philosophy nor the ideology of research paradigms, significant considerations positioned within Eastern concepts of knowledge production can still thrive. The integration of both Eastern and Western perspectives at the crossroads of Asian-based qualitative research offers important lessons that are useful for supervisory, teaching and learning purposes.
This volume will be relevant to qualitative research methodology educators and researchers from across the Sciences and Humanities as well as practitioners in any industry that involves human thought and behaviour.
Contents
Contents
Lists of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Preface
SECTION 1: Forwarding Qualitative Design
1. Malaysia's knowledge journey: National Epistemological Moulding (NEM) and social research
Su Li Chong
2. Unfolding stories: Narratives of women with breast-cancer
Wan Hasliza Wan Mamat
3. Media diary method: Navigating the untold world of young Malaysians' use of media for identity formation
Haryati Abdul Karim
4. Venturing out of "the norm": Challenges with flexibility and subjectivity of qualitative research design
Kalvina A/P Chelladorai
Wen Yea Hwong
5. Between the 'flying rocks': How narratives of a rural Sarawak community's collective anger shifted an impact study's methodological design
Haslina Hashim
Noor'ain Aini
Linda Alfarero Lumayag
6. Seeing anew: Transitioning from positivism to interpretivism
Jeffrey K. L. Yee
SECTION 2: Making use of rigour
7. Reconciling personal beliefs with the realities of grant applications: an early career qualitative researcher's narrative
Jia Wei Lim
8. Qualitative research & publications in Malaysia: Some patterns and perspectives
Su Li Chong
Dahlia Janan
9. Bewitched, bothered and bewildered: Life as a qualitative researcher in a positivist jungle
Balvinder Kaur Kler
SECTION 3: Anchoring in philosophy and axiology
10. Qualitative methodology to examine decision-making processes trans men utilise in becoming men
Vizla Kumaresan
11. Dealing with sensitive and distressing data: A perspective from online sexism discourse researchers
Wan Nur Asyura Wan Adnan
12. Lessons learned on sensitivity and ethics through interviewing repeat students
Chan Choong Foong
13. Overcoming challenges and sensitivities surrounding sexual health topic
Siti Hazariah Abdul Hamid
14. Treading carefully in murky waters: Sensitivities and sensibilities in research on ethnicity and race in Malaysia
Mitshel Lino
Index
