Situational Analysis in Practice: Mapping Relationalities Across Disciplines

by Adele E. Clarke (Editor), Rachel Washburn (Editor), Carrie Friese (Editor)

Overview

Situational Analysis (SA) uses analytic maps of the situation, processes and relations identified using approaches pioneered in Grounded Theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke, with Rachel Washburn and Carrie Friese, show how the method can be, and has been, used in a variety of critical qualitative studies.

The entirely new second edition of this book offers several chapters on the method and new introductory material from the editors about developments in using SA in qualitative inquiry. Part I introduces readers to the method of SA, discussing recent developments in the field. Part II offers five new chapters about various facets of the SA method, including a history of Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, SA as critical pragmatist interactionism, using SA in managing a mixed-methods project, and SA mapping in the social policy classroom and in clinical counseling as innovatively collaborative analysis. Part III offers six new exemplary research articles drawn from energy research and international relations, public health research methods, disabled access to public transportation, participation in conservation in a biosphere reserve, and PTSD and the military. Authors’ reflections on their experiences in using the method are also included.

These carefully selected new readings vividly demonstrate how widely this method has travelled, successfully meeting the needs of diverse researchers seeking an innovative relational approach to critically analyzing a wide array of data. Situational Analysis in Practice will be of interest to undergraduate and graduate students practicing the SA method across the social sciences, including sociology and healthcare among other disciplines, as well as research scholars interested in qualitative inquiry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367470999
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/19/2022
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	378
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Adele E. Clarke is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Extending Grounded Theory, she developed Situational Analysis c. 2000. Rachel, Carrie and Adele have produced three books on this method. Clarke’s sociohistorical studies of science, technology and biomedicine were recognized by major awards.

Rachel Washburn is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Health and Society program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her research explores the politics of knowledge production in the environmental health sciences with a particular focus on human biomonitoring.

Carrie Friese is a medical sociologist and Associate Professor at London School of Economics. She works at the interface with science and technology studies and focuses substantively on reproduction across human and non-human animals. She has explored reproductive technologies that range from donor gametes for human infertility to cloning for species preservation and animal husbandry practices for laboratory animals.

Table of Contents

Foreword Reiner Keller xii

Preface and Acknowledgments xv

Part 1 Introducing Situational Analysis 1

Introduction to PART I 3

1 Introducing Situational Analysis Adele E. Clarke Rachel Washburn Carrie Friese 5

Part II Situational Analysis as an Interpretive Method 37

Introduction to PART II 39

2 Situating Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis in Interpretive Qualitative Inquiry Adele E. Clarke (2019) 47

3 Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism Carrie Friese Adele E. Clarke Rachel Washburn (2021) 97

4 Reflections on Using SA in a Large, Mixed-Methods Project: Care as Science: The Role of Animal Husbandry in Translational Medicine Carrie Friese 111

5 Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking Richard Holtzman (2019) 126

6 Creative Mapping Possibilities: Situational Analysis as a Resource for Counseling Tanya E. Mudry Vanessa Vegter Tom Strong 132

Part III Exemplars of Situational Analysis Research with Reflections 141

Introduction to PART III 143

Papers in Each Mapping Category Multiple SA Maps in Same Study 149

7 Making Energy Cultures-Visible with Situational Analysis Sarah Glück (2018) 151

Reflections on Choreographing Messy and Complex Situations in Energy Research Sarah Glück 181

8 Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research Wanda Martin Bernie Pauly Marjorie MacDonald (2016) 189

Reflections on Why and How I Came to Use Situational Analysis Wanda Martin 207

Situational and/or Relational Map Focus 213

9 At the Margins of the Barents Energyscape Hanna Lempinen (2018) 215

Reflections on (Doing) Situational Analysis at the Margins of International Relations Hanna Lempinen 235

Social Worlds/Arenas Map Focus 241

10 Disabilities, the Design of Urban Transport Systems and the City: A Situational Analysis Andrés Felipe Valderrama Pineda (2015) 243

Reflections on Using Situational Analysis to Study Disabled Access to Public Transport Andrés Valderrama 259

11 Re-Mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis-)coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico Gabriela Alonso-Yanez Kurt Thumlert Suzanne de Castell (2016) 265

Reflections on Re-mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico Gabriela Alonso-Yanez Suzanne de Castell Kurt Thumlert 287

Positional Maps Focus 297

12 PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence Michael Fisher (2014) 299

Reflections on Mapping Discourses of PTSD Prevalence Michael Fisher 318

Appendices 327

A Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis Websites 329

B Recommended Readings About Situational Analysis Method 331

C Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Discipline 336

D Selected Exemplars of Situational Analysis by Mapping Focus 341

Previously Published Materials and Permissions 347

About the Editors and Contributors 349

Index 353

Editorial Reviews

"Situational Analysis in Practice 2e is a unique book on research method. By having scholars generously reflect on how they practice situational analysis, this book is an inspiring read. It shows how to think with the methodology as a creative process, from the spark of the initial research idea until dissemination."

Stine W. Adrian, Associate Professor in Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University, Denmark

"This book teaches how to observe and listen to the world. It shows what can be gained by taking the time to listen to its rhythms and patterns, instead of fitting them into predetermined categories. It offers a method to do rigorous qualitative social science while being open to surprise."

Barbara Prainsack, Professor for Comparative Policy Analysis, University of Vienna

"Teaching qualitative methodologies in general and especially Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis, calls for published examples of good practice. Thus this book was always useful, and the second edition even more encompassing and instructive. It proves both the feasibility and the usefulness of mapping for perspectives, social worlds and discourse positions."

Jörg Strübing, Professor of Sociology, Universität Tübingen, Germany

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