The book explores the processes of interviewing in relationship to developing and implementing qualitative research projects. Too often interviewing is seen as a â¬Âtoolâ¬" for data collection that is employed using different â¬Âtechniquesâ¬" in different contexts. Interviewing is a complex, subtle process that cannot be separated from the dynamic of the project nor from the multiple and changing contexts of everyday life. The book therefore explores the process of interviewing within the contexts of the contemporary debates concerning such issues as â¬Âknowledgeâ¬", â¬Âfreedomâ¬", â¬Âpowerâ¬", â¬Âethicsâ¬", â¬Âfeminismâ¬", â¬Âpostcolonialismâ¬" â¬Âmodernism and postmodernismâ¬", â¬Âglobalisationâ¬" and so on. What makes the book distinctive is its focus on interviewing not just as a tool to be used within other frameworks such as case study, action research, evaluation, surveys and so on but as an approach to organise a project as a whole, to provide frameworks for organising â¬Âperspectivesâ¬" on the multiple â¬Âworldsâ¬" of everyday life. It is argued that every project, every methodology, every theoretical perspective has its own rhetorical framework that interacts with the â¬Âworldâ¬" as subject of study or focus for intervention. The interview, as defined in this book, is both the process of constituting and de-constructing world views â¬" it is the inter-view, the place between worlds. Without the â¬Âinter-viewâ¬" no dialogue, no alternatives as a basis for difference, change, development is possible. Each chapter of the book develops this rationale. In situating research practice within the context of theoretical and methodological debates it takes the research beginner beyond the many simple introductory texts. It is thus appropriate to extend the work of final year undergraduates through to doctoral and post doctoral researchers who wish to advance the frontiers of their research.
