Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis

Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data

Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Kelly W. Guyotte, Stephanie Anne Shelton, Jennifer R. Wolgemuth, Kelly W. Guyotte, Stephanie Anne Shelton

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• ISBN:
  9781040088777
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Research & Methodology in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Expanding Approaches to Thematic Analysis: Creative Engagements with Qualitative Data springboards readers into a world where generating themes from qualitative data is a creative, experimental, and wondrous process!

While no one ever said it had to be, thematic analysis is invariably described as a step-by-step process that involves coding. Yet qualitative data analysis is more than a technical procedure—it invokes imagination and inspiration—intuitional engagements that are as vital to the data analysis process as they are difficult to describe. This edited book begins with two premises: (1) there is more than one way to theme data, and (2) qualitative researchers do not have to code to get to themes. Each chapter introduces readers to a different approach to thematic analysis, explores that approach's theoretical and disciplinary roots, and illustrates how that approach can be used to generate themes. Approaches include annotating, memoing, storying, writing, composing poems, artmaking, meditating, and more, expanding conceptualizations of what themes and thematic analysis can be. The book also includes 'methodologies in action': helpful examples of creative theming from doctoral students and early career scholars.

This book is as much a provocation for engaging thematic analysis beyond/without/in addition to coding as it is a resource for anyone interested in the rationale, justification, and examples for doing so. As such, it is a source of inspiration for any qualitative student, researcher, and scholar who wishes to expand their repertoire of approaches to thematic analysis.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Endorsement Page
• Half Title page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction—Expanding Thematic Analysis: Beyond Coding, Toward Engagement
• 1 An Introduction to Themeing the Data
• 2 Ma(r)king Themes: Annotating as Thematic Analysis
• 3 Memo Writing: Centrifugal and Centripetal Approaches to Thematic Analysis
• 4 Spinning Thematic Webs: The Plasticity of Diagrammatical Analysis
• 5 Reading Relationally: A Feminist/Queer Analytic Method
• 6 Thematic Resonances: Listening as an Alternative to Data Dissection
• 7 Writing toward Theoretical Resonance
• 8 The Logic of Peace: Practical Lessons from Thematic Analysis and Meditations
• 9 Getting Mixed Up: Arts-Based, Contemplative, and Generative Approaches to Thematic Analysis
• 10 Recurring Languaging Practices as ‘Themes’
• 11 Composing Poems: Using Poetry as Qualitative Data Analysis
• 12 I Have Hated Analysis: Poetic Thematic Analysis
• 13 Quilt Tactics: Black Quilting as Method in Qualitative Research
• 14 Exploring Relationality, Wonder, and Resonance: Artmaking as (Thematic) Analysis
• 15 Who Are Photos For? What Are Photos For?: Thematic Analysis, Photovoice, and Photographic Practice
• 16 Performance Perspectives in Thematic Analysis
• 17 Comics-Based Thematic Analysis
• 18 Wondering, Seducing … Thematic Nonsense
• Index