Older, Wiser, and Much More Daring: On Kathy Charmaz's Creative Explosion c1995–2020

Abstract

This contribution argues that Kathy Charmaz's career did not burst into full intellectual bloom until the last 25 years of her life – from 55 to her death at 80. I examine why and how this scholarly blossoming happened so late in her life and the nature of its many manifestations, especially research on a wide variety of social justice issues. After her initial focus on medical sociology, specializing in chronic illness, Kathy became an innovative and renowned qualitative methodologist, developing constructivist grounded theory (CGT) method taken up in many amazingly heterogeneous scholarly fields transnationally.

Citation

Clarke, A.E. (2022), "Older, Wiser, and Much More Daring: On Kathy Charmaz's Creative Explosion c1995–2020", Bryant, A. and Clarke, A.E. (Ed.) Festschrift in Honour of Kathy Charmaz (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 56), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 5-24. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620220000056003