Qualitative GIS : a mixed methods approach

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Title:

Author:

Cope, Meghan.

ISBN:

9781412945653

9781412945660

Publication Information:

Los Angeles ; London : SAGE, 2009.

Physical Description:

ix, 182 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

General Note:

Formerly CIP.

Contents:

Introduction: Qualitative GIS: forging mixed methods through representations, analytical innovations, and conceptual engagements -- Non-quantitative GIS -- Metadata as a site for imbuing GIS with qualitative information -- Multiple representations, significations, and epistemologies in community-based GIS -- Geographic information technologies, local knowledge, and change -- Grounded visualization and scale: a recursive analysis of community spaces -- Computer-aided qualitative GIS: a software-level integration of qualitative research and GIS -- Into the image and beyond: affective visual geographies ans GIScience -- Towards a geneaology of qualitative GIS -- Conclusion: For qualitative GIS.

Subject Term:

Geographic information systems.

Qualitative research.

Added Author:

Cope, Meghan.

Elwood, Sarah.

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Summary

Geographic Information Systems are an essential tool for analyzing and representing quantitative spatial data. Qualitative GIS explains the recent integration of qualitative research with Geographical Information Systems

With a detailed contextualising introduction, the text is organised in three sections:

Representation: examines how researchers are using GIS to create new types of representations; working with spatial data, maps, and othervisualizations to incorporate multiple meanings and to provide texture and context.

Analysis: discusses the new techniques of analysis that are emerging at the margins between qualitative research and GIS, this in the wider context of a critical review of mixed-methods in geographical research

Theory: questions how knowledge is produced, showing how ideas of ′science′ and ′truth′ inform research, and demonstrates how qualitative GIS can be used to interrogate discussions of power, community, and social action

Making reference to representation, analysis, and theory throughout, the text shows how to frame questions, collect data, analyze results, and represent findings in a truly integrated way. An important addition to the mixed methods literature, Qualitative GIS will be the standard reference for upper-level students and researchers using qualitative methods and Geographic Information Systems.