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6.8 Summary: How the Three Types of Maps Present Different Ways of ‘Interrogating’ The three types of situational maps ‘interrogate’ the same data in different ways. It is this aspect of situational analysis that facilitates a depth of understanding of the ‘complexities’ that Clarke (2005) finds missing in grounded theory. Table 6.6 summarises the way in which the three types of maps (Clarke, 2005) facilitates the three distinct ways of interrogating the same data. The table outlines the types of questions that each map asks in regard to the situation of remote nurses proving mental healthcare. Table 6.6 Three Situational Maps ‘Interrogating’ the Same Data Utilising Three Different Means (Source: Clarke, 2005)

Type of Map

Questions Asked of the Data

Situational Maps

Who are the parties and what are the institutions involved? What are the cultural symbologies and discourses? Who is speaking and who is not? What are the human and non-human elements?

Social Worlds/Arena Maps

What social worlds are operating here? What are the salient discourses? How is meaning being constituted? What are people ‘doing together’?

Positional Maps

Where are agreements and where are differences? What are the controversies in the situation? What are the positions and issues? Where is there dynamic tension in the situation?

Cumulatively the study’s three approaches to situational analysis observed ‘the society of the spectacle’ (Debord, 1967/1999) and perceived, ‘the explosion of discourses that constitute the cultures of consumption, the seas of narrative, visual, and historical