Disability and Qualitative Inquiry: Methods for Rethinking an Ableist World

Preface, Ronald J. Berger and Laura S. Lorenz Disability and qualitative research, Ronald J. Berger and Laura S. Lorenz. Part 1 Observational Methods: A bricolage of urban sidewalks: observing locations of inequality, Valerie Leiter Observations of a disability summer camp: the method of phenomenological seeing, Ronald J. Berger Ethnographies of blindness: the method of sensory knowledge, Gili Hammer. Part 2 Interviews and Focus Groups: Staying true to their stories: interviews with parents of children with disabilities, Sara E. Green Negotiating deafness and identity: methodological implications of interviewing with hearing loss, Melissa Jane Welch Talking about sex: focus group research with people with disabilities, Sarah Smith Rainey. Part 3 Autoethnography and Life History Methods: Institutional resistance to accessible architecture and design: a collaborative autoethnography, Carla Corroto and Lucinda Kaukas Havenhand 'It's not like you're going to college anyway': a performative autoethnography, Anjali J. Forber-Pratt Recovery from spinal cord injury: a theorized life history, Ronald J. Berger. Part 4 Content Analysis and Visual Methods: Disability and humor in film and television: a content analysis, Ronald J. Berger Living with brain injury: participatory visual methods and narrative analysis, Laura S. Lorenz Sharing the results of visual methods research: participation, voice, and empowerment, Laura S. Lorenz and Maria Paiewonsky. References Index.