Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in
Book cover

Structuring the Thesis pp 357–367Cite as

Now, Then, When: Working with Qualitative Longitudinal and Intergenerational Research to Study Pathways and Imagined Futures in Transnational Times

  • Chapter
  • First Online:

  • 2654 Accesses

Abstract

This chapter represents a dialogue between a doctoral student—Jo Higginson, and her principal supervisor—Julie McLeod, whose broader program of work includes a related project, Making Futures (www.makingfutures.net). The focus of Jo’s research is the experiences of students whose families have transnational histories of work and study; she is investigating these young people’s subjectivity and views as they complete their senior years of secondary school and imagine their futures. Mirroring its subject, this chapter engages with imagination and the future tense: a prospective research journey and a possible thesis structure as, at the time of writing, fieldwork is in progress.

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution.

Chapter
USD   29.95
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
eBook
USD   79.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Available as EPUB and PDF
  • Read on any device
  • Instant download
  • Own it forever
Softcover Book
USD   99.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book
USD   139.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout

Purchases are for personal use only

Learn about institutional subscriptions

References

  • Andrews, M. (2007). Shaping history: Narratives of political change. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Arijon, D. (1976). Grammar of the film language. New York: Hastings.

    Google Scholar 

  • Appadurai, A. (1996). Modernity at large. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Appadurai, A. (2013). The future as cultural fact: Essays on the global condition. London, New York: Verso Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Berlant, L. (2007). On the case. Critical Inquiry, 33 (Summer 2007).

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Bertaux, D., & Delcroix, C. (2000). Case histories of families and social processes: Enriching sociology. In P. Chamberlayne, J. Bornat, & T. Wengraf (Eds.), The turn to biographical methods in social science. Chapter 3. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Bottici, C. (2014). Imaginal politics: Images beyond imagination and the imaginary. Columbia Univesity Press.

    Chapter  Google Scholar 

  • Boym, S. (2001). The future of nostalgia. New York: Basic Books.

    Google Scholar 

  • Burawoy, M. (2000). Global ethnography: Forces, connections, and imaginations in a postmodern world. Berkeley: University of California Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Chamberlayne, P., Bornat, J., & Wengraf, T. (Eds.). (2000). The turn to biographical methods: Comparative issues and examples. London: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Connell, R., Ashenden, D. J., Kessler, S., & Dowsett, G. W. (1982). Making the difference: Schools, families and social division. Sydney: George Allen & Unwin.

    Google Scholar 

  • Dolby, N., & Rizvi, F. (Eds.). (2008). Youth moves: Identities and education in global perspective. New York: Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Department of Education and Training Victoria. (2014). Unity through diversity: The victorian government’s vision for civics. State of Victoria: Citizenship and Multicultural Education.

    Google Scholar 

  • Harvey, D. (1989). The condition of postmodernity: An enquiry into the origins of cultural change. Oxford: Blackwell.

    Google Scholar 

  • Higson, A. (2014, March). Nostalgia is not what it used to be: Heritage films, nostalgia websites and contemporary consumers. Consumption, Markets and Culture, 17(2), 120–142.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Holland, J., Thomson, R., & Henderson, J. (2006). Qualitative longitudinal research: A discussion paper. London: London South Bank University, Families and Social Capital ESRC Research Group.

    Google Scholar 

  • Lam, W. S. E. (2006). Chapter 6: “Culture and Learning in the Context of Globalization–Research Directions”. Review of Research in Education, 30(1), 213–237.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Making Futures. (2016). Making futures: Youth identity, generational change and education. Accessed March 2017. www.makingfutures.net.

  • Massey, D. (1994). A global sense of space. Space, Place and Gender. Chapter 6. Polity Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • McLeod, J. (2009). Youth studies, comparative inquiry, and the local/global problematic. Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies, 31(4), 270–292.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McLeod, J. (2015). What is the making futures project? Making Futures Working Paper #1 (unpublished).

    Google Scholar 

  • McLeod, J. (2017). Marking time, making methods: Temporality and the untimely dilemmas in the sociology of youth and educational change. British Journal of Sociology of Education, 38(1), 13–23.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • McLeod, J., & Thomson, R. (2009). Researching social change qualitative approaches. London: Sage.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • McLeod, J., & Yates, L. (2006). Making modern lives: Subjectivity, schooling and social change. New York: State University of New York Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ministerial Council on Education, Employment, Training and Youth Affairs (Australia). (2008). Melbourne declaration on educational goals for young Australians. Retrieved from www.catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4560588. Archived February 2009.

  • Mitchell, K., & Kallio, K. P. (2017). Spaces of the geosocial: Exploring transnational topologies. Geopolitics, 22(1), 1–14.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Mitchell, K., & Parker, W. (2008, April). I pledge allegiance to…flexible citizenship and shifting scales of belonging. Teachers College Record, 110(4), 775–804.

    Google Scholar 

  • Ong, A. (1999). Flexible citizenship: The cultural logics of transnationality. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Quayson, A., & Daswani, G. (2013). A companion to diaspora and transnationalism. Torronto: Blackwell.

    Book  Google Scholar 

  • Raffe, D. (2003). Pathways linking education and work: A review of concepts, research, and policy debates. Journal of Youth Studies, 6(1), 3–19.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Rizvi, F., Louie, K., & Evans, J. (2016). Australia’s diaspora advantage: Realising the potential for building transnational business networks with Asia. Report for the Australian Council of Learned Academies, www.acola.org.au.

  • Robertson, R. (1995). Glocalization: Time-space and homogeneity-heterogeneity. In Featherstone, Lash, & Robertson (Eds.), Global modernities (Chapter 2). London: Sage.

    Google Scholar 

  • Sassen, S. (2005). The global city: Introducing a concept. The Brown Journal of World Affairs, XI(2), 27–45 (Winter/Spring 2005).

    Google Scholar 

  • Skrbis, Z., Woodward, I., & Bean, C. (2014). Seeds of cosmopolitan future? Young people and their aspirations for future mobility. Journal of Youth Studies, 17(5), 11.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Steger, M. (2013). Globalization: A very short introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomson, P., & Kamler, B. (2016). Detox your writing: Strategies for doctoral researchers. Routledge.

    Google Scholar 

  • Thomson, R., & McLeod, J. (2015). New frontiers in qualitative longitudinal research: An agenda for research. International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 18(3), 243–250.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  • Vertovec, S. (2009). Transnationalism. Florence: Taylor and Francis.

    Google Scholar 

  • Yates, L. (2004). What does good education research look like? Situating a field and its practices. Maidenhead and New York: Open University Press.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Melbourne Graduate School of Education, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Joanne Higginson

  2. University of Melbourne, Victoria, 3010, Australia

    Julie McLeod

Authors
  1. Joanne Higginson
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

  2. Julie McLeod
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Joanne Higginson .

Editor information

Editors and Affiliations

  1. University of Tasmania, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia

    David Kember

  2. School of Education, Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Michael Corbett

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

Copyright information

© 2018 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.

About this chapter

Check for updates. Verify currency and authenticity via CrossMark

Cite this chapter

Higginson, J., McLeod, J. (2018). Now, Then, When: Working with Qualitative Longitudinal and Intergenerational Research to Study Pathways and Imagined Futures in Transnational Times. In: Kember, D., Corbett, M. (eds) Structuring the Thesis. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_36

Download citation

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-0511-5_36

  • Published:

  • Publisher Name: Springer, Singapore

  • Print ISBN: 978-981-13-0510-8

  • Online ISBN: 978-981-13-0511-5

  • eBook Packages: EducationEducation (R0)

Publish with us

Policies and ethics

Search

Navigation