Dear All,I would like to inform you that FQS 12(2) -- "Biography and Politics" (http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/37), edited by Michaela Koettig, Christine Mueller-Botsch & Martina Schiebel -- is available online (see http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/archive for former issues). In addition to articles relating to "Biography and Politics", FQS 12(2) provides a number of selected single contributions (f.e. on race research and photographic portraits), as well as articles belonging to various FQS Debates (Ethnography of the Career Politics, Quality of Qualitative Research, Ethics, and Teaching and Learning Qualitative Methods) and FQS Reviews.
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_____________________________________ A) FQS 12(2) "Biography and Politics" http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/issue/view/37Michaela Koettig, Christine Mueller-Botsch & Martina Schiebel (Germany): Biography and Politics: Academic Concepts and Empirical Encounters. Introductory Reflections on the Special Issue
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102217Andrea Neugebauer (Germany): "I Will Never Become a Soldier for You!": The Relevance of Biographical Learning for Political Action
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102118 Dirk Michel-Schertges (Denmark): Open and Closed Biographical Politicization http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102225Martina Schiebel (Germany): Discursive and Biographical Construction of Political Enemies: Communists in the early Federal Republic of Germany
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102271 (will follow soon) Gisela Notz (Germany): Female Social Democrats on the Parliamentary Council http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102156Judith Michel (Germany): The Effect of Early Political Opinion and the Political Positions on Willy Brandt's Policy towards America
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102122Max Reinhardt (Germany): Lives and Political Field. An Analysis of the Power Structure of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD)
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102197Rita Horvay (Germany): Political Detainment in the German Democratic Republic: Public Discourse and Personal Memory
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110218Alexander Leistner (Germany): The Impact of Key Figures on the Formation and Stabilization of Social Movements: The Independent Peace Movement in East Germany
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102147Ingrid Thea Miethe (Germany): Politics, Education and Biography: The Connection between Political Opportunity Structures and Individual Educational Advancement
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110287Carsten Heinze (Germany): "The Private Is Becoming Political"—Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Autobiographical Writing in the Horizon of the Culture of Remembering and Contemporary History
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110294 --> Single ContributionsFranz Breuer (Germany): Predecessor-Successor-Transitions in Institutional and Interpersonal Contexts. On the Development of a Theory of Transfer of Personal Objects
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102165Clara Victoria Giraldo & Grey Yuliet Ceballos (Colombia): Getting Used to Barriers: A Qualitative Study of Colombian Health Care System Barriers to Timely Diagnosis and Treatment of Breast Cancer
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110252Lauren Mizock, Debra Harkins & Renee Morant (USA): Researcher Interjecting in Qualitative Race Research
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102134Denise Ann Narcisse (USA): Risky Undertakings: The Employment Decision-Making of Women Lawyers and Accountants
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110233 Brian Roberts (UK): Photographic Portraits: Narrative and Memory http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110263Brian Roberts (UK): Interpreting Photographic Portraits: Autobiography, Time Perspectives, and Two School Photographs
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102252Jeffery Yen & Romin W. Tafarodi (Canada): Becoming Scientific: Objectivity, Identity, and Relevance as Experienced by Graduate Students in Psychology
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102260 --> FQS Debate: Ethnography of the Career PoliticsFranz Breuer (Germany): "The Other Talks Back": On the Reactions of Research Participants to Their Re/presentations in the Data of the Social Sciences
FQS Debate: Quality of Qualitative Research http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102233 --> FQS Debate: Quality of Qualitative ResearchEdith Enzenhofer & Katharina Resch (Austria): Translation Processes and Quality Assurance in Qualitative Social Research
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102106 --> FQS Debate: Qualitative Research and EthicsChristina Siry (Luxembourg), Carolyne Ali Khan & Mark Zuss (USA): Cultures in the Making: An Examination of the Ethical and Methodological Implications of Collaborative Research
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102245 --> FQS Debate: Teaching and Learning Qualitative MethodsBettina Koenig & Claudia Kummer (Austria): Teaching Qualitative Market Research: Multi-Perspectival Evaluation of a Curriculum Innovation
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110240 --> FQS ReviewsDoerte Bernhard (Sweden): Review: Petia Genkova & Andrea E. Abele (Eds.) (2008). Lernen und Entwicklung im globalen Kontext. "Heimliche Lehrplaene" und Basiskompetenzen [Learning and Development in a Global Context. Hidden Curriculum and Base Competencies]
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102187Dina El-Najjar (Austria): Review: Irena Medjedović & Andreas Witzel (2010). Wiederverwendung qualitativer Daten. Archivierung und Sekundaernutzung qualitativer Interviewtranskripte [Reusing Qualitative Data. Archiving and Secondary Use of Qualitative Interview Transcripts]
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102205Gerhard Jost (Austria): Review: Julia Ahrens (2009). Going Online, Doing Gender. Alltagspraktiken rund um das Internet in Deutschland und Australien [Going Online, Doing Gender. Everyday Practices around the Internet in Germany and Australia]
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1102177Diana Schmidt-Pfister (Germany): Review: Ralf Bohnsack, Aglaja Przyborski & Burkhard Schaeffer (Eds.) (2010). Das Gruppendiskussionsverfahren in der Forschungspraxis [The Group Discussion Technique in Research Practice]
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110225Andrea Smioski (Austria): Review: Stefanie Grosse (2008). Lebensbrueche als Chance? Lern- und Bildungsprozesse im Umgang mit kritischen Lebensereignissen [Critical Life Events as Opportunities? Educational and Learning Processes in Dealing with Critical Life Events]
http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs110276 B) CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 23-25 June, Seoul, Korea 1st Global Congress for Qualitative Health Research 2011 http://www.gcqhr.com 9.-10. Juni, Montpellier University, FranceRecherches Qualitatives 2011. 3ème colloque international francophone sur les méthodes qualitatives "Du singulier à l'universel"
http://www.rifreq2011.org/accueil.php 3-5 August, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Grounded Theory Jamboree VI: “Uncorking (Classical) Grounded Theory” http://tinyurl.com/3aub5jx 1-2 September, Locarno, Switzerland 4th European Conference on Computer-Aided Qualitative Research 2011 http://www.merlien.org/upcoming-events/caqdaseurope.html C) LINKSThe various free access virtual libraries developed by the Edelstein Center for Social Research or in collaboration with other institutions now have a unified Portal
http://www.bvce.org/ D) OPEN ACCESS NEWS May Issue of the SPARC Open Access Newsletter http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/fos/newsletter/05-02-11.htm The Open Access Policy kit http://projecto.rcaap.pt/index.php/lang-en/como-criar-um-repositorio/politicas-de-auto-arquivo New Spanish language version of the RoMEO database http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo/?la=es Conferences 22-24 June, Geneva OAI7, the 7th Cern Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?ovw=True&confId=103325 , 30 June -1 July, Berlin, Germany Open Knowledge Conference -- OKCon 2011 http://okcon.org/2011/programme 26-28 September, Freie Universitaet Berlin, GermanyThird International PKP Scholarly Publishing Conference "Building and Sustaining Alternative Scholarly Publishing Projects Around the World"
http://www.pkp2011.de/ 9-10 November, Washington DC, USA Berlin 9 Open Access Conference: http://www.berlin9.org/ 5-6 December, Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA GL13 Conference "Grey Circuit -- From Social Networking to Wealth Creation" http://www.textrelease.com/gl13program.html Journals/newsletters Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/ CyberOrient. Online Journal of the Virtual Middle East, 5(1) http://www.cyberorient.net/ Ethnopolitics, 10(2) http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=g937702432 First Monday, 16(5) http://firstmonday.org/issue/current Historical Studies in Education http://library.queensu.ca/ojs/index.php/edu_hse-rhe/index Journal of Aesthetics & Culture http://journals.sfu.ca/coaction/index.php/jac/about/submissions#authorGuidelines Mother Pelican -- A Journal of Sustainable Human Development http://www.pelicanweb.org/solisustv07n05page1.html Qualitative Sociology Review, VII(1) http://www.qualitativesociologyreview.org/ENG/volume18.php Recherches Qualitatives http://www.recherche-qualitative.qc.ca/volume30%281%29.html ScieCom Info, 7(1) http://nile.lub.lu.se/ojs/index.php/sciecominfo/issue/view/509 Semantic Web Journal http://www.semantic-web-journal.net/blog/special-issue-linked-data-science-and-education The Qualitative Report, 16(3) http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/QR16-3/index.html. --- FQS -- Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research (ISSN 1438-5627) http://www.qualitative-research.net/ English / German / Spanish