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	تحلیل تماتیک انتقادی	تحقیق روایی انتقادی
حوزه	کیفی	کیفی
خانواده	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
سال پیدایش	2000s–2010s (consolidation as named variant)	1990s–2000s
پدیدآور	Draws on Virginia Braun & Victoria Clarke (thematic analysis, 2006) combined with critical theory traditions (Frankfurt School, feminist and postcolonial theorists)	Synthesises D. Jean Clandinin & F. Michael Connelly (narrative inquiry) with critical theory traditions (Kincheloe, McLaren, hooks)
نوع	Qualitative analysis approach	Critical qualitative research approach
منبع بنیادین	Braun, V., & Clarke, V. (2006). Using thematic analysis in psychology. Qualitative Research in Psychology, 3(2), 77–101.	Clandinin, D. J., & Connelly, F. M. (2000). Narrative Inquiry: Experience and Story in Qualitative Research. Jossey-Bass. ISBN: 978-0787943999
نام‌های دیگر	CTA, critical-theoretic thematic analysis, thematic analysis with critical lens, critical qualitative thematic inquiry	CNI, critical narrative research, critical narrative analysis, narrative inquiry with critical lens
مرتبط	5	6
خلاصه	Critical thematic analysis (CTA) is a qualitative approach that combines the systematic coding procedures of Braun and Clarke's thematic analysis with the interrogative stance of critical theory. Rather than merely describing patterns in data, CTA asks whose interests those patterns serve, what power relations they reflect, and what is absent or silenced. It is used to surface ideology, structural inequality, and hegemonic assumptions embedded in participants' accounts or in texts.	Critical narrative inquiry is a qualitative research approach that collects and analyses personal stories to expose how social structures, power relations, and systemic inequities shape individual experience. It merges the interpretive richness of narrative inquiry with the emancipatory commitments of critical theory, asking not only what happened in a life but also why — and whose interests are served by dominant stories remaining untold or unquestioned.