Interview roles are less clear than they once were, and in some cases, the roles are even exchanged to promote new opportunities for understanding the shape and evolution of selves and experience.
Postmodern Interviewing offers readers an exploration of the postmodern interview, a conversation with diverse purposes in which the communicative format is constructed as much within the interview conversation as it stems from predesignated research interests. It provides cutting-edge discussions of emerging horizons, featuring reflexivity, poetics, and power, along with discussions of new ways of gathering experiential knowledge. Employing concepts from anthropology, family studies, history, and sociology, the contributors present the ambitious new directions in which the interview has gone, such as:
- How the interview process is refracted through the lens of language, knowledge, culture, and difference
- How the dividing line between fact and fiction is blurred to promote richer understanding
- How standardized representation has given way to representational invention
By exploring these exciting developments, readers will be exposed to the engaging opportunities for understanding the shape and evolution of selves and social worlds that are made possible through changes in the interview process.
This volume is comprised of chapters from the Handbook of Interview Research (Gubrium and Holstein, SAGE, 2001). The companion volume, Inside Interviewing (SAGE, 2003), is also comprised of chapters from the Handbook .
Table of Content
INTRODUCTION
Ch. 1. Postmodern Sensibilities – Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
PART I: NEW HORIZONS
Ch. 2. From the Individual Interview to the Interview Society – Jaber F. Gubrium and James A. Holstein
Ch. 3. Postmodern Trends in Interviewing – Andrea Fontana
Ch. 4. Active Interviewing – James A. Holstein and Jaber F. Gubrium
Ch. 5. Internet Interviewing – Chris Mann and Fiona Stewart
PART II: REFLEXIVITY
Ch. 6. Revisiting the Relationship Between Participant Observation and Interviewing – Paul Atkinson and Amanda Coffey
Ch. 7. Personal and Folk Narrative as Cultural Representation – Kirin Narayan and Kenneth M. George
Ch. 8. The Cinematic Society and the Reflexive Interview – Norman K. Denzin
Ch. 9. Their Story/My Story/Our Story: Including the Researcher′s Experience in Interview Research – Carolyn Ellis and Leigh Berger
PART III: POETICS AND POWER
Ch. 10. Poetic Representation of Interviews – Laurel Richardson
Ch. 11. Analytic Strategies for Oral History Interviews – Richard Cándida Smith
Ch. 12. Interviewing at the Border of Fact and Fiction – Paul C. Rosenblatt
Ch. 13. Interviewing, Power/Knowledge, and Social Inequality – Charles L. Briggs
AUTHOR INDEX
SUBJECT INDEX
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
About the author
James A. Holstein is professor of sociology in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University. His research and writing projects have addressed social problems, deviance and social control, mental health and illness, family, and the self, all approached from an ethnomethodologically- informed, constructionist perspective.
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