Pt.1. Openings -- History of qualitative research in geography -- Encounters with difference and diversity -- Theory and empirics in qualitative geographic research -- Policy, research design and the socially situated researcher -- Mixed methods: thinking, doing, and asking in multiple ways -- Pt.2. Encounters and collaborations -- Ethnography and participant observation -- Autoethnography as sensibility -- Interviewing: fear and liking in the field -- Life history interviewing -- Focus groups as collaborative research performances -- Visual methods and methodologies -- Doing landscape interpretation -- Archives and fieldwork -- Textual and discourse analysis -- GIS as qualitative: knowledge, participatory politics and cartographies of affect -- Approaching animals through qualitative methods -- Performative, non-representational, and affect-based research: seven injunctions -- Pt.3. Making sense -- Writing qualitative geography -- Art of geographic interpretation -- Representing the other: negotiating the personal and the political -- Major disasters and general panics: methodologies of activism, affinity and emotion in the clandestine insurgent rebel clown army -- Reflections on teaching qualitative methods in geography.