Pursuing Qualitative Research From the Global South: "Investigative Research" During China's "Great Leap Forward" (1958-62)

Abstract: Over the last decade, qualitative researchers have begun to challenge the domination and universalistic claims of the Global North. Nevertheless, it is still unclear what pursuing qualitative research (QR) from the Global South might entail. I advance this effort by situating it in the larger context of the decentering endeavor in social science and decolonizing methodologies in aboriginal scholarship. Informed by their locally-grounded approach in the quest for constructing alternative social science accounts and articulating decolonized knowledge, I argue that writing locally-grounded histories is an essential first step to explore methodologies and epistemologies of QR from the Global South. Noting that no national history of QR has been derived from the Global South, I present an example of writing the history of QR by examining MAO Zedong's legacy of "investigative research" (IR). Specifically, I analyze the practices of IR during China's "Great Leap Forward" (1958-62). In con.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/2287

Show object

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

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Pursuing Qualitative Research From the Global South: "Investigative Research" During China's "Great Leap Forward" (1958-62) ; volume:16 ; number:3 ; day:28 ; month:07 ; year:2015 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 16, Heft 3 (28.07.2015)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Hsiung, Ping-Chun

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-16.3.2287
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs150325
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.