Table of Contents

1. Praxis in Qualitative Health Geography

Jamie Baxter and Nancy E. Fenton

PART 1: REPRESENTATION, ETHICS AND POWER

2. Placing Narrative Correspondence in the Geographer’s Toolbox: Insights from Care Research in New Zealand

Christine Milligan

3. Photo Elicitation as Method: A Participatory Approach

Tara Coleman

4. Ethics and Activism in Environment and Health Research

Sarah A. Mason, Chad Walker, Jamie Baxter, Isaac Luginaah

PART 2: REPRESENTATION, SELF AND COMMUNITY

5. Writing Illness through Feminist Autobiographical Analysis

Pamela Moss

6. Community Capacity Building through Qualitative Methodologies

Sarah A. Lovell, Mark W. Rosenberg

7. Walking in Their Shoes: Utilizing Go-Along Interviews to Explore Participant Engagement with Local Space

Jennifer Dean

PART 3: REPRESENTATION THROUGH VISUAL MEDIA

8. What Can Participant-Generated Drawing Add to Health Geography’s Qualitative Palette?

Stephanie E. Coen

9. Applying Decolonizing Methodologies in Environment-Health Research: A Community-Based Film Project with Anishinabe Communities

Chantelle A.M. Richmond

10. Not Another Interview! Using Photovoice and Digital Stories as Props in Participatory Health Geography Research

Heather Castleden, Vanessa Sloan Morgan, Aaron Franks

11 Media and Framing: Processes and Challenges

S. Michelle Driedger, Theresa Garvin

PART 4: (NON)REPRESENTATION, AFFECT AND SOCIAL LIFE

12. From The Pump to Senescence: Two Musical Acts of More-Than-Representational ‘Acting Into’ and ‘Building New’ Life

Gavin J. Andrews, Eric Drass

13. Managing and Overcoming the Challenges of Qualitative Research on Palliative Family Caregivers

Allison Williams

14. Informal Caregiving on the Move: Examining the Experiences of Canadian Medical Tourists’ Caregiver-Companions from Patients’ Perspectives

Valerie A. Crooks, Victoria Casey, Rebecca Whitmore

15 Conclusion

Robin Kearns

About the Author

Nancy E. Fenton is Adjunct Professor in the School of Public Health and Health Systems at the University of Waterloo, Canada, involved in interdisciplinary qualitative health research investigating the relationship between the environment and health as it relates to risk perception, particularly among children and youth.

Jamie Baxter is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at Western University, Canada. His research interests include: the social construction of risks from technological hazards, community responses to hazards, environment and health, noxious facility siting and social science research methodology.