Review Essay: On Transparency, Epistemologies, and Positioning in Writing Introductory Qualitative Research Texts

Abstract: Building on Günter MEY's (2000, para. 2) argument that "reviews should help to promote additional perspectives … and to open up new scientific discourses," in this essay review of Carol GRBICH's (2007) "Qualitative Data Analysis," we present an approach to reading texts ethnographically that enabled us to uncover how the choices GRBICH makes in positioning readers and in choosing particular ways of representing select qualitative approaches inscribes particular worlds and possibilities for qualitative research. In her text GRBICH argues that authors position readers through the ways in which they report and write about their work. In this review essay we use this argument as a basis to uncover how GRBICH positions readers, researchers, those researched, different qualitative traditions and perspectives as well as herself as an author of the text, to lay a foundation for engaging readers of FQS in a hermeneutic dialogue (KELLY, 2006) about the authoring and reviewing processes and t.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/1768

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Review Essay: On Transparency, Epistemologies, and Positioning in Writing Introductory Qualitative Research Texts ; volume:13 ; number:1 ; day:08 ; month:11 ; year:2011 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 13, Heft 1 (08.11.2011)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Skukauskaite, Audra ; Green, Judith L.

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-13.1.1768
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1201233
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
• Last update: 15.08.2025, 7:25 AM CEST