The Routledge Companion to Applied Qualitative Research in the Caribbean

Corin Bailey is a Professor of Sociology, Crime and Social inequality at the University of the West Indies (UWI). He is the Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice and Security, located at UWI, Regional Headquarters, Mona Campus, Jamaica. Roy McCree is a Senior Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, Trinidad and Tobago. Latoya Lazarus is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados. Natalie Dietrich Jones is a Research Fellow at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies at the University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, Jamaica.

0. Introduction. 1. Caribbean qualitative research in historical perspective: From colonialism to independence, 1953-2009. 2. Telling the right story to get the right law: Using qualitative frame analysis to get better rape law. 3. An analytic autoethnography of recidivism as a key performance indicator in a Caribbean context. 4. Narratives of fear among Caribbean men in university: A qualitative exploration of fear of crime using the Free Association Narrative Method. 5. (Re) Producing knowledge from the margins: Feminist standpoint research methodology with Caribbean women and girls. 6. Fathering for cohesive families and safer communities: A qualitative study of Jamaican men and masculinities. 7. Tracing colonial violence in women-loving women’s relations: Towards a decolonial approach. 8. Situating risk and responses: A post-structuralist exploration of intimate partner violence. 9. Using a phenomenological approach to understand the socio-ecological factors influencing childhood obesity in the small island developing state of Barbados. 10. Caribbean internet exchange points and policy implementation: A case study of Curaçao and Grenada. 11. Deployment of spirituality and religion in Barbados during the time of COVID-19. 12. Constructivist Grounded Theory – A Contemporary Lens for Caribbean Social Research. 13. Constructing the fat female body through female body, (re)presentations in Soca Lyrics. 14. "I wasn’t unusual, at all": An oral history of departure and arrival to Windrush Britain. 15. Navigating data "silence(r)s": Researching migration in the Caribbean. 16. Deskilling of Venezuelan immigrants in Trinidad and Tobago. 17. The forgotten peoples?: A qualitative content analysis of the representation of the First Peoples in Trinidad and Tobago’s destination marketing. 18. Discussion.