Situational Analysis (SA) creates analytic maps of social processes and relationships identified using approaches pioneered in grounded theory. Creator of the method, award-winning sociologist Adele E. Clarke, with Rachel Washburn and Carrie Friese, shows how the method can be, and has been, used in a variety of critical qualitative studies.

Adele E. Clarke is Professor Emerita of Sociology and History of Health Sciences, University of California, San Francisco. Extending Grounded Theory, she developed Situational Analysis c. 2000. Rachel, Carrie and Adele have produced three books on this method. Clarke's sociohistorical studies of science, technology and biomedicine were recognized by major awards.

Rachel Washburn is Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Health and Society program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. Her research explores the politics of knowledge production in the environmental health sciences with a particular focus on human biomonitoring.

Carrie Friese is a medical sociologist and Associate Professor at London School of Economics. She works at the interface with science and technology studies and focuses substantively on reproduction across human and non-human animals. She has explored reproductive technologies that range from donor gametes for human infertility to cloning for species preservation and animal husbandry practices for laboratory animals.

PART I: INTRODUCING SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS 1. Introducing Situational Analysis PART II: SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS AS AN INTERPRETIVE METHOD 2. Adele E. Clarke. (2019). "Situating Grounded Theory and Situational Analysis in Interpretive Qualitative Inquiry." 3. Carrie Friese, Adele E. Clarke & Rachel Washburn. (2021). "Situational Analysis as Critical Pragmatist Interactionism." 4. Carrie Friese. "Reflections on Using SA in a Large, Mixed-Methods Project: 'Care as Science: The Role of Animal Husbandry in Translational Medicine.'" 5. Richard Holtzman. (2019). "Mapping Policy Issues: A Simple, Active-Learning Exercise for Critical Thinking." 6. Tanya E. Mudry, Vanessa Vegter, Tom Strong. "Creative Mapping Possibilities: Situational Analysis as a Resource for Counselling" PART III: EXEMPLARS OF SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS RESEARCH WITH REFLECTIONS 7. Sarah Glück (2018) "Making Energy Cultures Visible with Situational Analysis." Sarah Glück "Reflections on Choreographing Messy and Complex Situations in Energy Research" 8. Wanda Martin, Bernie Pauly, & Marjorie MacDonald. (2016). "Situational Analysis for Complex Systems: Methodological Development in Public Health Research." Wanda Martin "Reflections on Why and How I Came to Use Situational Analysis" Situational and/or Relational Map Focus 9. Hanna Lempinen: "Reflections on (Doing) Situational Analysis at the Margins of International Relations" Social Worlds/Arenas Map Focus 10. Andres Felipe Valderrama Pineda. (2015). "Disabilities, the Design of Urban Transport Systems and the City: A Situational Analysis." Andres Valderrama: "Reflections on Using Situational Analysis to Study Disabled Access to Public Transport" 11. Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Kurt Thumlert & Suzanne de Castell (2016): "Re-Mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)-coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico." Gabriela Alonso Yanez, Suzanne de Castell and Kurt Thumlert "Reflections on 'Re-mapping Integrative Conservation: (Dis)coordinate Participation in a Biosphere Reserve in Mexico'" 12. Michael Fisher. (2014). "PTSD in the U.S. Military, and the Politics of Prevalence." Michael Fisher: "Reflections on Mapping Discourses of PTSD Prevalence"