Working at a remove: continuous, collective, and configurative approaches to qualitative secondary analysis

Kahryn Hughes (), Jason Hughes () and Anna Tarrant ()
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Kahryn Hughes: University of Leeds
Jason Hughes: University of Leicester
Anna Tarrant: University of Lincoln

Quality & Quantity: International Journal of Methodology, 2022, vol. 56, issue 2, No 1, 375-394

Abstract: Abstract In this paper, we define and operationalise three modes of research engagement using qualitative secondary analysis (QSA). We characterise these forms of engagement as continuous, collective and configurative. Continuous QSA involves modes of engagement that centre on asking new questions of existing datasets to (re)apprehend empirical evidence, and develop continuous (or contiguous) samples in ways that principally leverage epistemic distance. Collective QSA characteristically involves generating dialogue between members of different research teams to establish comparisons and linkages across studies, and formulate new analytic directions harnessing relational distance. Configurative QSA refers to how existing data are brought into conversation with broader sources of theory and evidence, typically in ways which exploit greater temporal distance. In relation to each mode of engagement we discuss how processes of both (re)contextualisation and (re)connection offer opportunities for new analytical engagement through different combinations and degrees of proximity to, and distance from, the formative contexts of data production.

Keywords: Continuous; Collective and configurative QSA; Proximity and distance; Qualitative Secondary Analysis; Recontextualisation and reconnection; Timescapes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/s11135-021-01105-x

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