• Week 1: Introduction to qualitative methods. Qualitative investigation of nationalism and ethnicity

      Week 1                                

      Introduction to qualitative methods. Qualitative investigation of nationalism and ethnicity

       

      Topics

      What are methods? What do they do for us?

      What are qualitative methods?

      Studying everyday nationhood and vernacular forms of neo-nationalism

      Applying qualitative methods in nationalism studies

      Studying ethnicity and ethnic identities with qualitative methods

       

      Readings

      Denzin, Norman and Yvonna S. Lincoln (2011): The Discipline and Practice of Qualitative Research and Part I: Locating the Field. In: Denzin, Norman and Yvonna S. Lincoln ed. Handbook of Qualitative Research. Sage, 1-26.

      Schiff, Claire (2014): Introduction: Understanding the Salience of Ethnicity in the Educational Experiences of Minority Adolescences across Europe. And Margit, Feischmidt: Dampened Voices. A Comparative Look at Roma Adolescences’ Discourses of Being ‘Othered’ at School. Both In: Szalai, J. and Schiff, C. ed. Migrant, Roma and Post-Colonial Youth in Education across Europe. Palgrave Macmillan, 2014, 1-15 and 120-135.

      Recommended readings

      Fox, Jon and Miller-Idriss, Cynthia “Everyday Nationhood”. Ethnicities, 2008, 8 (4), 536-582