In this, the second of a three-volume paperback version of the landmark SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research, editors Norman K Denzin and Yvonna S Lincoln consider the major strategies employed by the qualitative researcher. Starting from the research design process and following through to consider a range of methods that can be applied in any study, Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry covers funding, case studies, ethnography, grounded theory, participative inquiry and much more - offering a range of methods that can be employed in any study. The outstanding contributors thoroughly covereach topic, enriching the qualitative experience. The Handbook of Qualitative Research has been heralded as the state of the art in evaluating the field of qualitative inquiry and features contributions from some of the leading scholars in the area. Now published in paperback in response to the needs of classroom teachers, Strategies of Qualitative Inquiry will also be an excellent choice around which to build a course on research methods, across a wide number of academic disciplines.

Preface / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- About the editors -- About the contributors -- Introduction: the discipline & practice of qualitative research / Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln -- Strategies of inquiry -- The politics and practices of funding qualitative inquiry : messages about messages about messages / Julianne Cheek -- Controversies in mixed methods research / John W. Creswell -- Mixed methods research : contemporary issues in an emerging field / Charles Teddlie and Abbas Tashakkori -- Case study / Bent Flyvbjerg -- Performance ethnography / Judith Hamera -- Braiding narrative ethnography with memoir and creative nonfiction / Barbara Tedlock -- The constructionist analytics of interpretive practice / James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium -- Grounded theory methods in social justice research / Kathy Charmaz -- In the name of human rights : i say (how) you (should) speak (before i listen) -- Antjie krog -- Jazz and the banyan tree : roots and riffs on participatory action research / Mary Brydon-Miller, Michael Kral, Patricia Maguire, Susan Noffke and Anu Sabhlok) -- What is qualitative health research? / Janice M. Morse -- Author index -- Subject index.