Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data springboards readers into a world where generating themes from qualitative data is a creative, experimental, and wondrous process!
While no one ever said it had to be, thematic analysis is invariably described as a step-by-step process that involves coding. Yet qualitative data analysis is more than a technical procedure it invokes imagination and inspiration intuitional engagements that are as vital to the data analysis process as they are difficult to describe. This edited book begins with two premises: 1) There is more than one way to theme data and 2) Qualitative researchers do not have to code to get to themes. Each chapter introduces readers to a different approach to thematic analysis, explores that approachs theoretical and disciplinary roots, and illustrates how that approach can be used to generate themes. Approaches include: annotating, memoing, storying, writing, composing poems, art-making, meditating, and more, expanding conceptualizations of what themes and thematic analysis can be. The book also includes methodologies in action; helpful examples of creative theming from doctoral students and early career scholars.
This book is as much a provocation for engaging thematic analysis beyond/without/in addition to coding as it is a resource for anyone interested in the rationale, justification, and examples for doing so. As such, it is a source of inspiration for any qualitative student, researcher, and scholar who wishes to expand their repertoire of approaches to thematic analysis.
Each chapter introduces readers to a different approach to thematic analysis, explores that approachs theoretical and disciplinary roots, and illustrates how that approach can be used to generate themes. The book also includes methodologies in action; helpful examples of creative theming from doctoral students and early career scholars
Introduction Expanding Thematic Analysis: Beyond Coding, Toward
Engagement Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Kelly W. Guyotte, and Stephanie Anne
Shelton.
Chapter 1 An Introduction to Theming the Data Johnny Saldańa.
Chapter 2 Ma(r)king Themes: Annotating as Thematic Analysis Stephanie Anne
Shelton and Carlson H. Coogler.
Chapter 3 Memo Writing: Centrifugal and
Centripetal Approaches to Thematic Analysis Paul Mihas.
Chapter 4 Spinning
Thematic Webs: The Plasticity of Diagrammatical Analysis Melissa Freeman.
Using Diagramming to Explore the Perceptions and Experiences of
Spanish-Speaking Mamįs and Their Students in the Context of the Seal of
Biliteracy Anna Monica Segoviano.
Chapter 5 Reading Relationally: A
Feminist/Queer Analytic Method Kelly W. Guyotte and Stephanie Anne Shelton.
Not Just Reading Between the Lines: Analysis as a Generative Act Presence
ONeal.
Chapter 6 Thematic Resonances: Listening as an Alternative to Data
Dissection Susan Cannon and Hannah Edber. Audio-Memoing as Accountable
Listening: One Structure for Data Analysis Centering Indigenous Perspectives
Jenni Conrad.
Chapter 7 Writing Toward Theoretical and Resonance Jessica
Van Cleave. Narrative Fiction as Feminist Refusal: A Utopian Short Story of
Lactation in Education Kelsey Benson. Making Sense Through Letter Writing
Maddie Neufeld.
Chapter 8 The Logic of Peace: Practical Lessons from
Thematic Analysis and Meditations James Salvo. Creative Silence and Theme
Jumping: Meditation as Thematic Analysis Steve Haberlin.
Chapter 9 Getting
Mixed Up: Arts-Based, Contemplative, and Generative Approaches to Thematic
Analysis Kakali Bhattacharya. Deliberate Reflections: Unveiling Identities
and Insights through Contemplative Data Analysis in Autoethnography Keishana
L. Barnes.
Chapter 10 Recurring Languaging Practices as Themes Francesca
Williamson and Jessica Nina Lester. Applying Ubuntu in Thematic Analysis for
Exploring Black Student Experiences at a Predominately White Institution
DaJaNay Askew.
Chapter 11 Composing Poems: Using Poetry as Qualitative
Data Analysis Sandra L. Faulkner and Wendy K. Watson. Methodologies in
Action: Poetry as Thematic Analysis Chelsea Gilbert.
Chapter 12 I Have
Hated Analysis: Poetic Thematic Analysis Maria K. E. Lahman.
Chapter 13
Quilt Tactics: Black Quilting as Method in Qualitative Research Stephanie
(S.R.) Toliver. The Roots: A Golden Concept to Black Life Trevor McCray.
Chapter 14 Exploring Relationality, Wonder, and Resonance: Artmaking as
(Thematic) Analysis Maureen A. Flint and Shannon A. B. Perry. Creating Visual
Images to Enrich Thematic Analysis Kanwardeep Kaur Singh and Elizabeth
Holliday Morgan. Finding Gems: Wondering Within Thematic Analysis Tye
Campbell, W. Boden Robertson, and José Wellington Sousa.
Chapter 15 Who Are
Photos For? What Are Photos For?: Thematic Analysis, Photovoice, and
Photographic Practice Jasmine B. Ulmer. Lets Go for a Walk: Critical Spatial
Analysis and Participatory Theme Making Jason E. Titus.
Chapter 16
Performance Perspectives in Thematic Analysis Joseph D. Sweet.
Chapter 17
Comics-Based Thematic Analysis Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower.
Chapter 18
Wondering, Seducing Thematic Nonsense Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Travis M. Marn,
and Daria Smirnova. Bowerbirding with Data Glowing Christie C. Byers.
Jennifer R. Wolgemuth is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of South Florida. Drawing on critical, poststructural, and new materialist theories, she explores inquiry as an agential process that simultaneously investigates and creates lives and communities to and for which researchers are responsible.
Kelly W. Guyotte is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama. Always inspired by her background in the visual arts, her research interests include issues of gender and equity in higher education and artful inquiry practices, as well as qualitative pedagogy and mentoring.
Stephanie Anne Shelton is Associate Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama. Guided by her extensive background in K12 and teacher education, and situated within queer and feminist theories, she often engages in interview, focus group, and observation-based research that explores LGBTQ+ issues in educational research.
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