Qualitative Research Methods and the Study of Current Issues of Nationalism 2018/2019 Spring: Week 1 Introduction to qualitative methods

Week 1 Introduction to qualitative methods

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.