Issues of Equity : Key Concepts in Qualitative Methods

Issues of Equity provides practical and theoretical tools to advance equity in qualitative research, featuring chapters on community-based approaches, intersectionality, decolonizing methodologies, and more. It offers guidance for researchers, students, and practitioners to conduct ethically sound and transformative studies focused on diverse perspectives and social justice principles.

This book covers a wide range of topics essential to equity in qualitative research. Key areas include community-based research, intersectionality, and culturally diverse populations, which highlight methods to engage and center marginalized voices. Concepts such as transformative-emancipatory praxis, critical reflexivity, and decolonizing methodologies offer innovative frameworks for analyzing power dynamics in research contexts. Approaches like trauma-informed interviewing, person-centered interviewing, and liberatory participatory action research provide strategies to build ethically sound relationships with research participants. The book''s main findings emphasize the importance of integrating social justice principles in all phases of research, encouraging critical reflexivity, and understanding context-specific challenges to conducting equitable studies.

Aimed at qualitative researchers, students, and practitioners, the book provides practical and theoretical tools to center equity in research design, implementation, and analysis.