Interviewing is one of the most common techniques used to conduct qualitative research in the social sciences and humanities. As a result of globalization, researchers increasingly conduct interviews cross-, inter- and intra-nationally. This raises important questions about how differences and sameness are understood and negotiated within the interview situation, as well as the power structures at play within qualitative research, and the role that reflexivity plays in mediating these.

Gabriele Griffin holds the Anniversary Chair in Women's Studies at the University of York, UK. Her research centres on contemporary women's cultural production, Women's Studies as a discipline, and research methods.

Part I: Cross-Cultural Interviewing 1. Interviewing as Negotiation by Gabriele Griffin 2. Interviewing aAcross Cultures: Talking to Mothers and Daughters in Hong Kong and Britain by Stevi Jackson, Petula Sik Ying Ho, and Jin Nye Na 3. Cross-Cultural Interviewing with/as Minority Women by Beatrice Akua-Sakyiwah 4. Rethinking the Proximics of Interviewing by Marianne Liliequist Part II: Interviewing in Another Culture: Managing Difference 5. Living Differences: Experiences from Botswana by Stephanie Smith 6. Being an Outsider: The Vicissitudes of Cross-Cultural Interviewing in a Politically and Culturally Sensitive Context by Christina Svens 7. Dealing with Being the Outsider in Qualitative Interviewing by Catharina Peeck Part III: Intra-Cultural Interviewing: Dealing with Hard-to-Reach Participants 8. Interviewing Outsiders and As an In-/Outsider: Interviewing the Socially Marginalized from a Marginalized Position by Hwajeong Yoo 9. 'So What Do You Want to Talk About?': Interactive Interviewing in Hard-to-Reach Communities by Ida Elin Kock Part IV: The Vicissitudes of Interviewing 'The Same' 10. Taboo in Qualitative Interviewing by Patrcyja Sosnowska-Buxton 11. The Migrant Interview: The Researcher as Migrant Studying Sideways by Katarzyna Wolanik Boström 12. 'Don't Focus the Star, Try to Catch the Light': Indirect Questioning in Interviews to Question Normative Assumptions in One's Research Focus by Britta Lundgren 13. Intergenerational Interviewing: Exploring the Silences of Female Experiences by Angelika Sjöstedt Landén and Anna Sofia Lundgren