This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on its various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region.
Featuring 17 chapters, the book covers 5 key areas, namely, Overview and Introduction; Gender, Crime and Violence; Gender and Intimate Partner Violence; Health, Management and Public Policy, and Migration and Tourism. Throughout the course of the book, the chapters explore how different kinds of qualitative research can be used to inform public policy and help deal with a myriad of socio-economic problems that affect Caribbean people. The book further uses distinct approaches to showcase a diverse selection of qualitative research methods, such as autoethnography, life history, narrative enquiry, participants observation, grounded theory, case study, and critical discourse.
The book will be beneficial for students and scholars both from the Caribbean and internationally who are engaged in the conduct of qualitative empirical enquiry. It will further hold appeal to advanced undergraduate level classes and post graduate students along with scholars in the fields of social sciences and education.
This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on its various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region.
0. Introduction.
1. Caribbean qualitative research in historical
perspective: From colonialism to independence, 1953-2009.
2. Telling the
right story to get the right law: Using qualitative frame analysis to get
better rape law.
3. An analytic autoethnography of recidivism as a key
performance indicator in a Caribbean context.
4. Narratives of fear among
Caribbean men in university: A qualitative exploration of fear of crime using
the Free Association Narrative Method.
5. (Re) Producing knowledge from the
margins: Feminist standpoint research methodology with Caribbean women and
girls.
6. Fathering for cohesive families and safer communities: A
qualitative study of Jamaican men and masculinities.
7. Tracing colonial
violence in women-loving womens relations: Towards a decolonial approach.
8.
Situating risk and responses: A post-structuralist exploration of intimate
partner violence.
9. Using a phenomenological approach to understand the
socio-ecological factors influencing childhood obesity in the small island
developing state of Barbados.
10. Caribbean internet exchange points and
policy implementation: A case study of Curaēao and Grenada.
11. Deployment of
spirituality and religion in Barbados during the time of COVID-19.
12.
Constructivist Grounded Theory A Contemporary Lens for Caribbean Social
Research.
13. Constructing the fat female body through female body,
(re)presentations in Soca Lyrics.
14. "I wasnt unusual, at all": An oral
history of departure and arrival to Windrush Britain.
15. Navigating data
"silence(r)s": Researching migration in the Caribbean.
16. Deskilling of
Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago.
17. The forgotten peoples?: A
qualitative content analysis of the representation of the First Peoples in
Trinidad and Tobagos destination marketing.
18. Discussion.
Corin Bailey is a Professor of Sociology, Crime and Social inequality at the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Security, located at UWI, Regional Headquarters, Mona Campus, Jamaica.
Roy McCree is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago.
Latoya Lazarus is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.
Natalie Dietrich Jones is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.
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