Situational Analysis as an Avenue for Critical Qualitative Research

Mapping Post-Katrina New Orleans

Bibliographic Data

ID2385766
AuthorsMichelle Salazar Pérez (0000-0003-3411-4308, New Mexico State University), G S Cannella (0000-0002-4595-8162)
Year2013
Volume19
Issue7
Pages505-517
Publication date2013-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800413489514
OpenAlexW2005443121
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited34

Hypercapitalism in the United States and globally has created neoliberal conditions that have reinterpreted notions of the public good as an entrepreneurial endeavor. In this current context, critical qualitative methods such as situational analysis combined with theoretical perspectives like Black feminist thought can provide activist methodological tools to expose and reenvision privatized constructions of the common good. In this article, we describe possibilities for using critical situational analysis to examine a broad range of complex conditions and provide examples of situational mapping from a study focusing on disaster capitalism and the privatization of the public education system in post-Katrina New Orleans. We then offer possibilities for using situational analysis to create new imaginaries for critical qualitative inquiry

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