The Craft of Knowledge

Simone Abram, Reader at Leeds Metropolitan University and the University of Durham, UK Les Back, Professor of Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK Jennifer Mason, Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK Nigel Rapport, Professor of Anthropological and Philosophical Studies at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, UK Carolyn Steedman, Emeritus Professor of History at the University of Warwick, UK Rachel Thomson, Professor at the University of Sussex, UK Kath Woodward, Professor Sociology at the Open University, UK

Introduction; Jenny Hockey, Allison James and Carol Smart PART I: THE CHANGING POLITICS AND CONTEXT OF RESEARCH 1. 'Bias Binding': Re-calling Creativity in Qualitative Research; Simone Abram 2. Possession: Research Practice in the Shadow of the Archive; Rachel Thomson 3. Writing as a Movement of Imagination, Reading as Companionship in Thought; Les Back PART II: RESEARCH AND THE CRAFTING OF KNOWLEDGE 4. Jigsaws with Missing Pieces: Research Imagination(s) and Children's Lives; Allison James 5. The Social Life of Interview Material; Jenny Hockey 6. Voice, History and Vertigo: Doing Justice to the Dead through Imaginative Conversation; Nigel Rapport PART III: LIVING WITH DATA 7. Fragments: Living with Other People's Lives as Analytic Practice; Carol Smart 8. Being in the Field: Doing Research; Kath Woodward 9. Living with the Dead; Carolyn Steedman