The Routledge International Handbook on The Listening Guide Method
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The Routledge International Handbook on The Listening Guide Method is about a qualitative, feminist, and voice-centred method for analyzing interview narratives and other forms of data through attentive listening to multiple voices and stories. This Handbook is the first to bring together a comprehensive collection of chapters dedicated entirely to the Listening Guide, mapping its origins, showcasing its many adaptations, and highlighting insights from long-time practitioners. It offers readers both a deeper understanding of the method and practical insights for using it in their own research.
The first part of the Handbook, Histories, charts the early development of the method by bringing together foundational texts. The second part, Innovations and Adaptations, features recent advances introduced by a new generation of international, interdisciplinary scholars who, drawing on diverse national and disciplinary backgrounds, engage varied populations across multiple geographic contexts and work with diverse forms of data. The third part, Methodological Journeys, offers reflections from scholars who have used, adapted, and taught the method for more than three decades, illuminating its key contributions and ongoing potential as a relational, feminist, and voice-centred approach.
The book is intended for scholars and researchers within social science and humanities disciplines, including qualitative, narrative and feminist researchers; for students at all levels of study (undergraduate, Masters, postgraduate); and for more established scholars in academia and other sectors.
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Carol Gilligan is a Professor of Humanities and Applied Psychology at New York University and was a Visiting Professor at the Centre for Gender Studies and Jesus College at the University of Cambridge until 2009. She was a member of the Harvard faculty for over 30 years and held the University's first chair in Gender Studies. Along with Lyn Mikel Brown and students and colleagues at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, she developed The Listening Guide.
Natasha Mauthner is a Professor of Social Science Philosophy and Method at Newcastle University, where she founded the Methods Hub in 2020. She previously worked at the Universities of Edinburgh and Aberdeen. She and Andrea Doucet learned the Listening Guide from Carol Gilligan as doctoral students at the University of Cambridge. Natasha later co-taught the method with Carol Gilligan at Harvard University. Her experiences using and teaching the Listening Guide in non-Western contexts have led her to reconceptualise the method through feminist posthumanist and post/decolonial frameworks.
Andrea Doucet is a Distinguished Professor in Sociology and Women's and Gender Studies at Brock University, Honorary Professor at University College London, and a former Canada Research Chair in Gender, Work, and Care. She and Natasha Mauthner learned the Listening Guide from Carol Gilligan during their doctoral studies at the University of Cambridge and later collaborated to develop it further. Her work in ecological and feminist epistemologies, feminist care ethics, and Indigenous community-based research underpin her current writing on the Listening Guide as a care ethics method.
Content
List of Figures List of Tables Acknowledgement About the Editors Notes on Contributors Introducing the Routledge International Handbook on the Listening Guide PART I: Histories Chapter 1: Brown, L. M. and Gilligan, C. (1993). Meeting at the crossroads: Women's psychology and girls' development. Feminism & Psychology, 3(1), 11-35. Chapter 2: Gilligan, C., Spencer, R., Weinberg, M. K., & Bertsch, T. (2003). On the listening guide: A voice-centered relational model. In P. M. Camic, J. F. Rhodes, & L. Yardley (Eds.), Qualitative research in psychology: Expanding perspectives in methodology and design (pp. 157-172). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. Chapter 3: Mauthner, N. S., & Doucet, A. (2003). Reflexive accounts and accounts of reflexivity in qualitative data analysis. Sociology, 37(3), 413-431. Chapter 4: Gilligan, C. (2015). The listening guide method of psychological inquiry. Qualitative Psychology, 2(1), 69-77. PART II: Innovations and Adaptations Chapter 5: Jacqueline Cruz: Asking a Real Question: Embracing Subjectivity Chapter 6: Tonya Leslie: "You Becoming": Voice, Resilience, and Becoming in the Narratives of First-Year STEM Students Chapter 7: Leoandra Onnie Rogers: A Guiding Light: Using the Listening Guide to Study Identity Development in the United States Chapter 8: Xanthia Hargreaves: Applying the Listening Guide Method to Legal Research Chapter 9: Lori Koelsch: I Poems: Where Psychology and Arts-Based Practices Intersect Chapter 10: Sarah Mountz & LeConte Dill: Embodied Listening: Innovative Adaptations to The Listening Guide Chapter 11: Claire Fontaine: Reflections on Adapting the Listening Guide to Program Evaluation Chapter 12: Eva Jewell, Andrea Doucet, & Jessica Falk: Remaking the Listening Guide in Canadian Indigenous Contexts: Care Processes, Practices, Provocations Chapter 13: Lucy Delgado: Being and Becoming Relations: The Listening Guide as part of a queer Métis research practice Chapter 14: Rachelle Chadwick: Hearing the Body in the Story: The Listening Guide as a Tool of Embodied Inquiry Chapter 15: Natasha Mauthner & Sophie Alkhaled: Towards Decolonising the Listening Guide: A Study of Women entrepreneurs in Non-Western Contexts Chapter 16: Shir Daphna-Tekoah & Ayelet Harel: Listening to Women in Conflict Situations: Implementation of the Listening Guide Chapter 17: Anne Hultzsch & Sol Pérez Martínez: The Listening-With and Reading-With Guides: Transferring the Listening Guide to Architectural Histories Chapter 18: Laura Kounine: Applying the Listening Guide to Historical Sources Part III: Methodological Journeys Chapter 19: Dana Jack: The Relational Voice-Centered Method: Its Continuity and Adaptations Over Four Decades Chapter 20: Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant & Mechthild Kiegelmann: Listening for the We: Thirty Years of a Friendship and Lessons in Hearing Social Contexts in Qualitative Data Chapter 21: Brittany Arthur, Sydney O'Connor & Miriam Raider-Roth: Collective Listening: The Listening Guide as a Participatory Method Chapter 22: Tova Hartman: Devoted Resistance: The Listening Guide as a Method for Revealing Cultural Critique Chapter 23: Deborah Tolman: The Listening Guide as a Way to Unearth a Psychological Path to Redress Social Injustices Chapter 24: Joseph Nelson & Niobe Way: Getting into the Thick of It: Teaching Transformative Interviewing Research Methods Chapter 25: Andrea Doucet: The Listening Guide as a Care Ethics Method: Listening with Care and Response-abilities Chapter 26: Natasha Mauthner: Diffractive Listening: Remaking the Listening Guide into a Posthumanist Performative Method Chapter 27: Carol Gilligan, Natasha Mauthner, and Andrea Doucet: Our Listening Guide Journeys Index