2008/08/06 by Mei‐Po Kwan, Guoxiang Ding · 3 citations
Social Sciences · #Geographic Information Systems Studies #Data Analysis and Archiving #Narrative #Narrative inquiry #Geographic information system #Geography #Narrative network #Qualitative analysis #Narrative criticism #Qualitative research #Data science #Sociology #Computer science #Cartography #Social science #Literature #Art
paper · doi:10.1080/00330120802211752
openalex publication_date 2008/08/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This research seeks to contribute to advancing qualitative methodologies at the intersection of qualitative geographic information systems (GIS), narrative analysis, 3D GIS-based time-geographic methods, and computer-aided qualitative data analysis. The approach to GIS-based narrative analysis developed in the study, called “geo-narrative,” is based on extending current GIS capabilities for the analysis and interpretation of narrative materials such as oral histories, life histories, and biographies. The three central elements in this approach are (1) narrative analysis as the qualitative approach; (2) 3D GIS-based time-geographic methods as the representational framework; and (3) 3D-VQGIS as the GIS-based computer-aided qualitative data analysis component. A case example based on a study of the lives of the Muslim women in Columbus, Ohio, after 11 September 2001 is used to illustrate the approach.