The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

This cutting-edge book provides a comprehensive examination of applied qualitative research in the Caribbean. It highlights the methodological diversity of qualitative research by drawing on various approaches to the study of Caribbean society, addressing the lack of published qualitative research on the region. Featuring 17 chapters, the book covers five key areas, namely Overview and Introduction; Gender, Crime, and Violence; Gender and Intimate Partner Violence; Health, Management, and Public Policy; and Migration and Tourism. Throughout the course of the book, the chapters explore how different kinds of qualitative research can be used to inform public policy and help deal with a myriad of socioeconomic problems that affect Caribbean people. The book further uses distinct approaches to showcase a diverse selection of qualitative research methods, such as autoethnography, life history, narrative enquiry, participants' observation, grounded theory, case study, and critical discourse. The book will be beneficial for students and scholars both from the Caribbean and internationally who are engaged in the conduct of qualitative empirical enquiry. It will further hold appeal to advanced undergraduate level classes and postgraduate students along with scholars in the fields of social sciences and education.

Corin Bailey is a Professor of Sociology, Crime and Social inequality at the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Security, located at UWI, Regional Headquarters, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Roy McCree is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Latoya Lazarus is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Natalie Dietrich Jones is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.

0. Introduction. 1. Caribbean qualitative research in historical perspective: From colonialism to independence, 1953-2009. 2. Telling the right story to get the right law: Using qualitative frame analysis to get better rape law. 3. An analytic autoethnography of recidivism as a key performance indicator in a Caribbean context. 4. Narratives of fear among Caribbean men in university: A qualitative exploration of fear of crime using the Free Association Narrative Method. 5. (Re) Producing knowledge from the margins: Feminist standpoint research methodology with Caribbean women and girls. 6. Fathering for cohesive families and safer communities: A qualitative study of Jamaican men and masculinities. 7. Tracing colonial violence in women-loving women's relations: Towards a decolonial approach. 8. Situating risk and responses: A post-structuralist exploration of intimate partner violence. 9. Using a phenomenological approach to understand the socio-ecological factors influencing childhood obesity in the small island developing state of Barbados. 10. Caribbean internet exchange points and policy implementation: A case study of Curaçao and Grenada. 11. Deployment of spirituality and religion in Barbados during the time of COVID-19. 12. Constructivist Grounded Theory - A Contemporary Lens for Caribbean Social Research. 13. Constructing the fat female body through female body, (re)presentations in Soca Lyrics. 14. "I wasn't unusual, at all": An oral history of departure and arrival to Windrush Britain. 15. Navigating data "silence(r)s": Researching migration in the Caribbean. 16. Deskilling of Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago. 17. The forgotten peoples?: A qualitative content analysis of the representation of the First Peoples in Trinidad and Tobago's destination marketing. 18. Discussion.