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- Unveiling racism through qualitative research: The politics of
interpretation-
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Authors: Katarzyna Wojnicka, Magdalena Nowicka
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
The main purpose of the article is to present and compare various strategies aimed at encouraging research participants to voice their experiences of racism and discrimination. This is supplemented by the discussion on how scholars can unveil the intersections of multiple systems of oppression reverberating in research participants’ narratives, given the challenge of racial asymmetry in research and the politics of interpretation in a race-mute societal context. Based on their study involving young migrants, the authors argue that qualitative research instruments such as individual and focus-group interviews, visual elicitation, co-creative methods, and video interviews enable individuals to frame their experienced reality in complementary ways. Comparing how each method can conceal or disclose racism, the authors warn of treating narrations on racism on face value and plead for carefully analyzing the extent to which individual narrations align with political agendas and normative discourses within the research's contexts. Addressing each research tool's potential and limitations, the authors also show how the researchers’ epistemological and political positionalities shape their data collection and analysis.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-11-28T08:23:05Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231216640
- Reconsidering foundational relationships between ethnography and
ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – an introduction-
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Authors: Clemens Eisenmann, Christian Meier zu Verl, Yaël Kreplak, Alex Dennis
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-11-27T07:58:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231210177
- Tracing the smells of childhoods with an olfactory research inquiry
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Authors: Natalia Ingebretsen Kucirkova
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This paper proposes a multi-method olfactory inquiry to document the rich ways in which children's sense of smell is embodied and embedded in an interplay of senses and socio-spatial relationships. I approach olfaction as a conceptual strategy and connect it to socio-material and socio-spatial theories to illustrate the ways in which close empirical attention to olfaction can provide new insights into children's sensory experiences. An olfactory research inquiry rests on traditional (e.g. SmellMaps and SmellLogs) and speculative (e.g. Ododata and Olfactoscapes) olfactory techniques that invite adults’ and children's agentic responses to odours through relational, dynamic, and non-linguistic modes. As a critical sub-methodology of sensory inquiries, olfactory inquiry can help us re-think normative, homogenizing, mind-body relations in early childhood research and practice.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-11-14T07:03:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231210771
- Provoked perplexity in live methods
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Authors: Zoi Simopoulou, Amy Chandler
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article contributes to literature on live methods and specifically to the idea of research as an informed provocation of experience in the context of growing methodological experimentation in social science research. The liveness of our method sits with our close attention to inquiry as encompassing of human/non-human relational encounters that, drawing upon a materialism of lively matter, come together in the form of material thinking. We sought to foster a creative encounter between people with experience of self-harm and published narratives about self-harm in the light of ‘provoked perplexity’. We suggest that deliberately ‘provoking perplexity’ in creative and live methodologies, opens up possibilities for inquiry into the unimaginable and unthinkable. Participating in a series of collaborative, creative (visual art) response workshops, our participants troubled the idea of meaning as neat and coherent, linear and final, showing instead how it dwells precisely in the very process of inquiring by means of creative making that constitutes practice as research.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-11-08T07:15:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231210766
- Reconfiguring the use of video in qualitative research through practices
of filmmaking: A post-qualitative cinematic analysis-
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Authors: Soern Finn Menning, Karin Murris
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
The article shows how film can disrupt human-centred discourses about the use of video technology in qualitative research. Inspired in particular by Deleuze's film philosophy, a detailed analysis of an “ordinary” event in an early-childhood institution gestures at some of the possibilities that the manipulation of technology can offer. Filmmaking practices, such as framing, tracking, speed changes, reverse motion and use of sound, shape what counts as “data” and offer alternative modes of analysis that include more-than-human bodies. These playful techniques draw attention to how video technology can play a democratising role in qualitative research by paying more attention to the digital, the sensory and the visual and relying less on language as the mode of enquiry. Grounded in post-qualitative approaches of performativity, we indicate the radical implications of the ontological and epistemological paradigmatic shift in agency and causality when disrupting anthropocentrism in qualitative research.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-11-02T06:32:26Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206755
- Research from an active-involved critical stance: Insights from extended
ethnography-
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Authors: Menny Malka
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
In the field of critical research, there is significant interest about the extent and forms of the researcher's proactive engagement with marginalized and excluded communities being researched. However, it is not always clear what makes this involvement part of the research, or how much it serves as a moral position located in the process of building relationships with the community being researched. Based on a retrospective and reflexive observation of extended ethnographic fieldwork, between 2005 and 2016, with Israel's Mountain Jewish Community, this paper presents an analysis of Research from an Active-Involved Critical Stance (RAICS). In the conceptual-theoretical dimension, this position is anchored in the theory of intersubjective relationships, critical ethnography, and community-based participatory research. With respect to the structural aspect, RAICS will be explicated through the various positions taken up by the researcher within the field, and across three stages in the development of the relationship with the community during the study, namely: the store-windows; behind the scenes; and onstage. Eight principles of RAICS will be presented. Finally, RAICS will be discussed in the context of developments in the critical research field.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-30T07:36:15Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206758
- Speak truth! The role of Black women's dialogue in the production of
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Authors: Daniella Ann Cook, Michelle L. Bryan
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we offer insights derived from an analysis of a structured dialogue on methodological decision making. Our analysis highlights the ways in which our dialogic process for revising a manuscript reflected key onto-epistemic qualities of Black women's ways of knowing. Drawing from an Afrocentric feminist epistemological standpoint, we tease apart how shared ways of knowing can facilitate heightened clarity about one's engagement in the research process. By positioning structured dialogues as a methodological tool, we offer several insights regarding their generative nature in facilitating researcher clarity on methodological decision making and in elucidating key shifts in the evolution of a researcher's methodological self. Indeed, as a form of facilitated reflexive praxis, engaging in structure dialogues about one's methodological choices is requisite for defining and understanding oneself as a researcher, scholar, and intellectual.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-26T06:30:44Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206739
- At home in the field, in the field at home' Reflections on power and
fieldwork in familiar settings-
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Authors: Arda Bilgen, Anita H Fábos
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Critical epistemologies and methodologies have over time challenged the static and mono-dimensional approaches to fieldwork, allowing researchers to contemplate and conduct their research in spaces of in-betweenness. Despite this important shift, the essentialist idea that both ‘the field’ and ‘home’ in a fieldwork setting must be actual places persists. In this article, we challenge the conceptualization and operationalization of ‘home’ not only as the juxtaposition to ‘the field’, but also as the embodiment of a place in a specific temporality. We argue that the postulation of ‘home’ as a constant disregards the non-predetermined and unpredictable nature of fieldwork relationships that are often complicated by implicit and explicit power dynamics, especially in places researchers identify as ‘home’. We demonstrate that unequal power relations, especially (1) between the Global North and Global South, (2) between majority and minoritized groups, (3) among genders, and (4) between elites and non-elites, require us to envisage ‘the field’ and ‘home’ in relative terms. We propose the reconceptualization of fieldwork place as a hybridized space that conjoins ‘the field’ and ‘home’ as ‘field-home’, particularly at a time when research mobility is restricted by the COVID-19 pandemic. In this way, we extend the literature on issues related to power, positionality and reflexivity in qualitative research, and provide practical insights for those preparing for fieldwork.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-19T07:42:36Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206770
- Engaging with hard-to-reach children and parents using a creative
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Authors: Kylie Poppe, Angela Abela
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This paper delves into the creative methodology adopted whilst engaging in a research study with five families whose young children (aged between 8 and 10 years old) were excluded from school due to social, emotional and mental health difficulties. The complex needs surrounding these families often lead to them being labelled as hard-to-reach and therefore challenging to engage in research. This paper will explore these challenges, the ethical dilemmas that emerged, the constant observation throughout, the reflexivity and flexibility required by the researchers and the relationships forged. Using various creative methods as part of the Mosaic approach both the children and their parents were able to play a part in the meaning-making process throughout the research journey. The culmination of the research study took place in the format of a multi-family group session which provided a safe space for an intergenerational encounter allowing for the children’s and parent's authentic voices to continue to be heard.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-12T08:35:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231202378
- “Under threat”: handling threats during ethnographic fieldwork
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Authors: Guillaume Dumont
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
I make two points about the role of threats for ethnographic fieldwork in contexts suffused by interpersonal violence. First, the experience of implicit and explicit threats operates as a powerful cultural agent that significantly transforms fieldworkers’ relationship with the field. Second, subjecting oneself to threats can become a central component of the ethnographic immersion into the field. The notion of “threat wisdom” connects these two points by capturing the emerging competence to handle threats and resulting from “becoming threatened,” “becoming threatful,” and “becoming threat wise.” To develop this argument, I discuss insights from my fieldwork with homeless people using cocaine, crack cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine, in Barcelona.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-12T07:13:40Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206756
- Conducting ethnographic research in male-dominated environments:
Reflections of a(n) (emotional) female researcher-
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Authors: Rebecca O’Hanlon, Chris Mackintosh, Hannah Holmes, Rosie Meek
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article contributes to the field of qualitative research by shining a light on the additional and invisible work demanded of female ethnographers undertaking research in male-dominated spaces. It draws on an 18-month ethnographic study exploring the potential of sport and physical activity as a tool to support the transition of male veterans from the military into civilian life. Previous literature has explored the experiences of female ethnographers, hinting at some of this additional necessary work. This study builds upon this, to highlight the invisible and additional management processes required of female ethnographers in male-dominated spaces, including the management of events, managing image and gender performance and the multi-layered demands of managing emotions. This article argues that a greater degree of effort and labour is demanded of female ethnographers, which should be acknowledged in academic writing alongside the provision of support when entering male-dominated research spaces.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-10-11T06:57:11Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231206785
- Book Review: Post-conflict Participatory Arts: Socially Engaged
Development by Mkwananzi, F and Cin, M-
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Authors: Patience Mukwambo
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-09-20T11:00:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231202368
- Anti-oppression as praxis in the research field: Implementing emancipatory
approaches for researchers and community partners-
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Authors: Ruth Rodney, Marsha Hinds, Jessica Bonilla-Damptey, Danielle Boissoneau, Aaliya Khan, Anika Forde
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Equity, diversity, and inclusion (EDI) and anti-oppression (AO) policies are implemented in research to address intersecting systemic barriers for marginalized populations. Grant applications now include questions about EDI to ensure researchers have considered how research designs perpetuate discriminatory practices. However, complying with these measures may not mean that researchers have engaged with AO as praxis. Three central points emerged from our work as a women's research collective committed to embedding AO practices within the research methodology of our community-based study. First, research ideas must be connected to larger pursuits of AO in and across marginalized communities. Secondly, AO as praxis in the research design is an exercise in centering cultural knowledge and pragmatic research preparation and response that honours the collective. Lastly, AO approaches are not prescriptive. They must shift, adapt, and change based on the research project and team, creating space for transformative resistance and emancipation of racialized researchers and community workers.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-09-04T06:45:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231196382
- Post-research reflexivity in qualitative research: Through cloaks and
cross-threading-
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Authors: Janine Natalya Clark
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This interdisciplinary Note is a creative form of writing that engages in post-research reflexivity through a process that it terms ‘cross-threading’. Using the trope of a cloak, which it links back to the author’s childhood imaginings of having an invisibility cloak, it cross-threads through the medium of this cloak a series of thoughts and feelings about a recently concluded research project (led by the author) exploring some of the ways that victims-/survivors of conflict-related sexual violence demonstrate resilience. Drawing on empirical data from Bosnia-Herzegovina, it illustrates the utility of the cloak as a thinking practice in relation to some of the stories that interviewees told, and it highlights the relevance of the cloak as a way of thinking about resilience. It also discusses the cloak as an identity, and in so doing it draws attention to an important aspect of the research process that is rarely talked about – the feelings, emotions and anxieties that researchers might experience when a major study or project ends. This Note concludes by underlining the potential benefits to researchers of having an acoustic cloak.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-08-25T04:33:59Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231196386
- Creating with ‘voice without subject’: An aesthetic
reconceptualization of voice-
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Authors: Mariske Broeckmeyer, Leni Van Goidsenhoven
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This methodological paper connects posthuman conceptualizations of voice with artistic research and examines whether it opens toward different registers and levels of embodied and aesthetic forms of knowing that cut across normative accounts of what it means to know. We start from what Patti Lather calls ‘a praxis of stuck places’ and ask how to give voice to experiences such as chronic illness and pain, while at the same time disrupting representational forms of illness and pain. To investigate this, we first critically engage with the popular genre of the health diary and its representational form. Secondly, we explore how Lisa A. Mazzei concept of ‘voice without subject’ can support us in disrupting the normative and representational production of voice, while working with a failing voice. Finally, we analyze the sound installation, A Borrowed Diary—made by M. Broeckmeyer, and explore how it opens up alternative approaches to voice and chronic pain. We will argue that making ‘voice without subject’ work, touch, and resonate can impact the lives of people who often remain unheard, in that it acknowledges experiences and expressions that are mostly not validated. Creating with ‘voice without subject’ makes tangible how personal experiences, however, temporarily, contribute to the bigger picture of how we look at and listen to people with illnesses and/or disabilities.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-08-01T07:11:24Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231189976
- Doing rural community-based action research (CBAR): Community perceptions
and methodological impacts-
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Authors: Amy M. Magnus, Kristen Rai
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Researchers conducting community-based action research (CBAR) become immersed in their field site, developing close relationships and enabling members of the community to pursue social action. We contribute a nuanced analysis of the impact of CBAR on those who participate in the method, particularly participants who live rurally. Situating this work in the history and prior methodological examinations of CBAR, we demonstrate the critical relationship between this research approach and the rural landscape. Our findings speak to two research questions: how do participatory- and otherwise community-based, action-oriented research methods impact those who participate in research' And, how do researchers and research participants make sense of this impact' Using interview, observation, and photographic data, our analysis indicates that community members’ perceptions of CBAR exist on a spectrum situated around two key, but fluid, positions: the ‘trusted outsider’ and the ‘affective collaborator.’ Our findings provide researchers with a stronger methodological foundation to approach community-based, action-oriented research with an ethic of care. Further, our findings provide methodologists with a better understanding of the multi-directional impact of doing CBAR and the ways we can use this information to do CBAR ethically and effectively. In this way, our paper contributes to a growing body of scholarship regarding the practice and impact of collaborative, community-based research approaches.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-08-01T07:10:46Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231188884
- Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies
from three activist-scholars-
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Authors: Lucinda Carspecken
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Autoethnography and autobiography are powerful means to link personal experience with cultural and political contexts. In this Note, I argue for blurring the boundaries between the two research genres. I discuss memoirs from the United States, England and Egypt—by Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Nawal El Saadawi—noting their approaches to truth and their narrative strategies. The authors were social activists and public intellectuals, whose work was accessible to a wide audience. Drawing on their examples, I invite contemporary qualitative researchers to expand our perspectives on autoethnography, and to acknowledge writing from a broader pool of genres, times, and places. We can increase our field’s ability to inspire change by reclaiming its history and scope.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-07-28T06:11:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221138403
- In praise of awkwardness in the field: Increasing our understanding of
relational concepts by reflecting on researchers’ emotion work-
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Authors: Jante Schmidt, Simon van der Weele, Melissa Sebrechts
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
In this article, we develop a new avenue for understanding the informative value of researchers’ emotions for qualitative research by deepening our understanding of awkwardness in the field. With this, we aim to develop Arlie Hochschild's notion of ‘emotion work’ further as a methodological tool. Awkwardness concerns discrepancies in researchers’ emotions that require and reveal emotion work. The argument is that reflecting on emotion work performed by the researcher in awkward situations is a way to gain insight into what we call ‘relational concepts’: concepts designating phenomena that reside and/or emerge in relationships between at least two persons. We show what this looks like in practice by presenting cases of awkwardness from three qualitative research projects revolving around such relational concepts, namely, recognition, dependency and dignity.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-07-06T06:16:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231186024
- Temporal contextuality of agentic intersectional positionalities: Nuancing
power relations in the ethnography of minority migrant women-
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Authors: Asuncion Fresnoza-Flot, Herbary Cheung
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Researchers’ reflexivity usually focuses on the spatiality and sociality of their ethnographic fieldwork. As a result, the temporal context of their positionality, whereby their various identities interact with one another at different research phases, is often overlooked. This paper adopts an agentic intersectional approach and draws from our separate studies of Thai migrant women in Belgium and Hong Kong to unpack the temporality of the power dynamics between study participants and us (the researchers). Through this reflexive exercise, we identify three salient aspects: first, different identities of the researchers intersect at each phase of the study; second, researchers are dependent on gatekeepers and study participants, notably during the data-gathering phase; and third, the changing researcher–participant dynamics throughout the research process are embedded in broader relations of power that encompass social institutions and migrant/ethnic networks. Hence, researchers’ self-discipline and constant awareness of positionality are of utmost importance for achieving well-situated knowledge (re)production.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-06-16T12:44:55Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231179153
- Emerging ethical challenges in researching vulnerable groups during the
COVID-19-
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Authors: Deniz Pelek, Vladimir Bortun, Eva Østergaard-Nielsen
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This paper discusses the lasting impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on research ethics in social sciences by focusing on the concept of vulnerability. We unpack the current conceptualisations of vulnerability and their limitations and argue for the need to reconceptualise vulnerability as multidimensional, consisting of both universal and contextual dimensions, as well as their dynamic interplay. Multidimensional vulnerability is inspired by and relevant to social science research during the pandemic but can also be useful in other contexts such as climate change or conflict. The paper puts forwards several considerations about how this revised concept of vulnerability may be useful when evaluating ethical dimensions of social science research.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-06-01T06:17:47Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176945
- An intersectional reflexive account on positionality: researching
Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim lone motherhood-
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Authors: Sarah A Baz
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Engaging in ‘reflexive practice’ throughout the research process (Benson and O’Reilly, 2022) and a ‘reflexivity of discomfort’ (Hamdan, 2009) through an intersectional lens, this article presents a reflective account of accessing and conducting observations and interviews at a South Asian women’s organisation, in North England, to explore Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim (PBM) lone motherhood. It critically explores how researchers’ own subjectivities and intersecting identities – in this case, my intersecting identities and positionalities as a young British Pakistani Muslim women, researcher and volunteer – impact interactions in different circumstances with different groups of participants and the importance of having continuous critical self-awareness. Moving beyond simplistic insider–outsider debates, the paper contributes towards further developing reflexivity debates taking an ‘intersectional reflexivity’ approach. It argues for thinking about the research process and engagements in the field as socially constructed, changing, adapting and negotiated overtime and to utilise intersectionality to unpick broader categories. Finally, it encourages researchers to adopt reflexivity in their research practices.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-06-01T04:00:48Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165893
- Charlas y Comidas: Humanising focus groups and interviews
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Authors: Yecid Ortega
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Qualitative research has utilised focus groups and interviews to gather information from participants while conducting ethnographic research. This article explores the potential of alternative forms of collecting data that are more in line with the participants’ feelings, emotions and expectations. Charlas (chats) and Comidas (meals) were utilised in an ethnographic study with English teachers and their students in marginalised high schools in Bogotá, Colombia. I found that opening a safe space for participants to share their ideas, suggestions and comments while chatting informally or having a meal encourages leadership of the research process. This generated a sentiment of trust and bond which strengthen their sense of belonging to their academic community. This article contributes to the literature on alternative, critical and decolonial forms of doing research by considering ways to implement methods that acknowledge the cultural and linguistic backgrounds of the participants which strengthen humanising relationships, especially in marginalised contexts.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-31T05:38:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176947
- Achieving co-presence when together and apart: Hybrid engagements and
multi-modal collaborative research with urban indigenous youth-
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Authors: Philipp Horn, Olivia Casagrande
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article reflects on collaborative research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic involving indigenous youth co-investigators from different urban settings in Bolivia and a UK- and Bolivia-based research coordination team. Unlike previous studies that highlight the potential of generating a shared co-presence via virtual engagements and digital methods when face-to-face interactions seem less desirable, this article offers a more cautious account. We question the existence of a shared co-presence and, instead, posit co-presence as fragmented and not necessarily mutual, requiring careful engagement with power imbalances, distinct socio-economic and space-time positionings, and diverse priorities around knowledge generation among team members. These considerations led us to iteratively configure a hybrid research approach that combines synchronous and asynchronous virtual and face-to-face interactions with multi-modal methods. We demonstrate how this approach enabled us to generate a sense of co-presence in a context where collaborator access to a shared space-time was limited, differentiated, or displaced.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:33:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176942
- Research as care: Positionality and reflexivity in qualitative migration
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Authors: Melissa Moralli
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article analyses the implications of qualitative research on migration in terms of reflexivity and positionality. In particular, it presents research as care, revolved around three main critical nodes of reflection: the epistemological importance of emotions, intersectional positionality and the ethics of care. Drawing upon the insights concerning a qualitative research on migration in Italian shrinking areas, the contribution underlines the importance of conceiving research as a process of negotiation. Moreover, it shows how positionality in qualitative migration research is not static but flexible, and is conditioned by different emotionalities emerging during the fieldwork. In this sense, the continuous negotiation that exists between researchers and participants can imply affectivities and kinship that valorises the relationships created during the research.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:08:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176946
- Literary allusion in sociological analysis: Mass Observation mantelpiece
reports as epic and drama-
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Authors: Rachel Hurdley
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This paper experiments with the use of literary analysis for the interpretation of participants’ writing. The dataset comprises 56 ‘Reports’ in response to a 2019 Mass Observation Directive. Mass Observation is a British archive. Its aim is to record everyday life through correspondents’ responses to thrice-yearly Directives. The paper contributes to lyrical sociology with its development of ‘textural’ analysis. The 2019 Directive asked volunteers to submit reports on what was on their mantelpieces and also about their treasured objects. I found this writing highly allusive of two literary works: Tom Stoppard's play Arcadia, and the ‘Catalogue of Ships’ in Homer's ancient Greek epic poem, the Iliad. This led me not only to review the earlier reports but also to consider how literature can enrich the interpretation of participants’ writing. In conclusion, I argue that following up allusive ‘hunches’ can result in fruitful literary analysis, as a ‘textural’ approach to sociological method.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:07:20Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176944
- Challenging methodologies: Deploying liberatory epistemologies to unlock
creative research practices-
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Authors: Dalia Milián Bernal
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Departing from the methodological story of my doctoral research and deploying feminist, postcolonial, and decolonial epistemologies, this article explores the double connotation of the phrase ‘challenging methodologies’. On the one hand, the article reviews the process of my doctoral research, the challenges I faced, and how these oriented my methodological decisions. On the other hand, it examines the three methodologies I chose – grounded theory, online research, and narrative inquiry – to understand how they originated to challenge unjust canonical research processes that undermine different ways of generating knowledge and reinforce epistemic silencing. By exploring ‘challenging methodologies’, the article invites (novice) researchers to contest unjust research processes and embark on their own creative, albeit challenging, methodological paths.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:04:10Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176938
- Audio research methods, attitudes, and accessibility theory: Using audio
vignettes to elicit attitudes towards sex work-
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Authors: Sarah Kingston
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Audio recording interviews, focus groups, and naturally occurring interactions have been utilised by social researchers for decades. Yet, the use of audio recordings as a tool to elicit participant responses has received less attention in social science research. This is despite heightened interest in non-traditional techniques such as the use of visual methodologies, and arts-based methods. In this article, I describe how I advanced a known method, vignettes, into an audio narrative to explore perceptions of sex work. This article reports on the methodological rationale for the novel use of audio vignettes, and the capacity they have for memory retrieval, eliciting reflections on lived experiences, and for providing richer attitudinal data. By drawing on ‘accessibility theory’, this article argues that audio vignettes are a powerful elicitor of attitudes. Furthermore, I claim that audio methods as I define them, can enhance the social scientists’ toolkit and that, what I term ‘audio sociology’ needs further development.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:03:39Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176937
- Off track or on point' Side comments in focus groups with teens
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Authors: Lindsay C Sheppard, Rebecca Raby
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Side comments and conversations in focus groups can pose challenges for facilitators. Rather than seeing side comments as problematic behavior or “failed” data, we argue that they can add to and deepen analyses. Drawing on focus group data with grade nine students from a study on early work, in this methodological paper we discuss three patterns. First, side comments have highlighted where participants required clarification, and illustrated their views and questions about the research process. Second, side comments added new data to our analysis, including personal reflections, connections to others’ comments, and information about participants’ uncertainties about the research topics. Third, these comments offered insight into peer relations and dynamics, including participants’ reflections on age, and how they deployed gender relations in their discussions. Provided that their use fits within established ethical protocols, we argue that there is a place for attention to side comments, especially in focus group research with young people where adult-teen hierarchies and peer dynamics might lead young people to engage more with peers than directly respond to researchers’ questions.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-29T08:03:00Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176931
- Conducting team ethnography with African migrants in Mexico: The dynamics
of gendered and racialised positionalies in the field-
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Authors: Ester Serra Mingot, Carlos Alberto González Zepeda
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Based on the current trends in conducting ethnographies, with time and funding limitations and the need to reflect on the researcher's positionality, this article explores the implications of conducting ethnographic fieldwork in a mixed team (in terms of gender, race and nationality) with highly vulnerable populations in a context of crisis. To that end, the article analyses the experience of conducting a team ethnography with African migrants in Tijuana, Mexico. While the study did not start with a self-awareness of what a team ethnography implied, as fieldwork developed the gender, race and nationality of both interviewees and researchers became crucial elements to produce a meaningful multi-layered, multiply-positioned ethnography. This article argues that methodological flexibility and the researchers’ relationship with themselves and the respondents are vital elements that require further experimentation in ethnographic research.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-25T09:22:03Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176939
- Dilemmas of the activist-researcher: Balancing militant ethnography,
security culture, and reflexive ethics in Australia-
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Authors: Élise Imray Papineau
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Ethnographic practice in contentious and high-risk spaces raises important ethical and methodological questions. When working with grassroots activists who actively avoid forms of surveillance, the boundary between consensual observation and potentially harmful documentation becomes difficult to discern. This article aims not only to identify the gaps in qualitative research methodologies for scholars working with grassroots activists, but also to think of practical ways in which researchers should mitigate concerns both for participants and themselves. Based on fieldwork in Australia, the author explores the ethical, methodological, and emotional dilemmas of conducting research with activists as a militant ethnographer. The article argues that activist-centred project designs must consider the challenges between the researcher's mandate to collect data and their responsibility to uphold security culture both in and outside activist spaces. Reflexive research ethics, further, should be a part of ongoing research engagement to address the emotional tensions overlooked in standardized ethical protocols.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-05-25T09:21:23Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231176933
- Visual methods in family and sexuality research: Picturing the everyday,
the imaginary, and the void-
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Authors: Iris Po Yee Lo
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Engaging with visual methodology literature and the concept of ‘family display’, this article examines how visual methods can generate new ways of understanding the (in)visibility of queer family life. Engaging Chinese lesbians in image-making and photo-elicitation interviews, I illustrate how visual methods give access to different ways of making sense of ‘family’, including the ‘everyday’, the ‘imaginary’, and the ‘void’. By exploring the image-maker’s intentions, the presence or absence of the image-maker, and diverse ways of displaying family, I show how visual methods can facilitate the display of family ties, tensions, and ideals. Adopted in an open format that allows flexibility and creativity, visual methods generate space for participants to communicate the unrealisable and unseeable and for researchers to examine how dominant heteronormative representations and discourses around the ‘family’ restrict possibilities of displaying family. I highlight the importance of maintaining openness and sensitivity to cultural peculiarities when adopting visual methods.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-04-12T07:16:41Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165892
- Religious positionalities and political science research in ‘the
field’ and beyond: Insights from Vietnam, Lebanon and the UK-
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Authors: Seb Rumsby, Jennifer Philippa Eggert
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article contributes to the growing literature on researcher reflexivity by broaching the often-ignored issue of religious positionalities within political science, as well as speaking to the methodological implications of researching religion more broadly. We present and compare two autoethnographic case studies of research on politico-religious conflict in Vietnam and Lebanon, exploring how a researcher’s religiosity presents unique fieldwork challenges, opportunities and insights. We then discuss the ambivalence faced by religious researchers within the highly secularised academic environment, thus blurring the artificial dichotomy between ‘the field’ and the academy. Our reflections centre around three findings: (1) the importance of taking an intersectional approach which neither essentialises nor ignores religious aspects of positionality, whilst also being sensitive to spatial and temporal shifts in how they interact with a researcher’s gender, ethnicity, class and other identifiers; (2) the opportunities and perils of a researcher’s apparent religious common ground with participants (or lack thereof) in building rapport and negotiating a degree of insider status; and (3) the similarities and differences between suspicions of religious partialism during fieldwork and within academia.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-04-05T09:59:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165884
- Translating (in) the margins: The dilemmas, ethics, and politics of a
transnational feminist approach to translating in multilingual qualitative
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Authors: Tanja Burkhard, Su Jin Park
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Drawing on two multilingual qualitative datasets (Korean/English and German/English), this paper examines the dual role and positionalities of two researchers who simultaneously act as translators, as well as the implications of this dual role for multilingual qualitative research. This work is informed by transnational feminist translation studies and transnational feminist approaches to qualitative research, and founded on the two researchers' intimate familiarity with their participants' languages, contexts, and meaning-making processes. Considering the complexity of this familiarity, this work presents unique dilemmas—challenges and opportunities—with respect to translating, representing, and writing about multilingual qualitative data.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-03-28T12:01:22Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165889
- Research with institutionalized populations: Methodological and ethical
dilemmas-
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Authors: Alla Korzh
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
While there is a strong body of literature documenting various challenges qualitative researchers face with vulnerable populations in the Global North, there is a dearth of research on the ethical dilemmas arising with institutionalized populations in post-authoritarian and post-socialist contexts in the Global South, or Global East. This article sheds light on the methodological challenges and ethical dilemmas emerging in qualitative research with orphanage youth and incarcerated women in Ukraine. The following dilemmas are discussed: methodological relevance, methodological credibility and reliability, methodological flexibility, constrained freedom and limited privacy, perceived researcher identity as a burden, and complicated reciprocity. These reflections on the dilemmas and lessons learned are informed by the author's qualitative research conducted in Ukraine between 2010 and 2019. They serve to guide budding scholars and graduate students who often times feel unprepared in their graduate studies to conduct emotionally intense research with vulnerable populations.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-03-27T10:27:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165890
- More than participatory' From ‘compensatory’ towards ‘expressive’
remote practices using digital technologies-
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Authors: Susanne Börner, Peter Kraftl, Leandro L Giatti
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Based on the shift from face-to-face participatory action research (PAR) with groups in situations of vulnerability to digital methods during COVID-19, we reflect on how we can go beyond compensating for the physical absence of the researcher from the field. We argue that instead of simply aiming to replace face-to-face research with a digital equivalent for maintaining ‘participatory’ and ‘inclusive’ research practices, remote practices have the potential of being more-than compensatory. We suggest that when producing multi-method digital approaches, we need to go beyond a concern with participant access to remote practices. By rethinking remote PAR in the light of expressive rather than participatory research practices, we critically reflect on the (sometimes experimental) process of trying out different digital research method(s) with Brazilian youth in situations of digital marginalisation, including the initial ‘failures’ and lessons learned in encouraging diverse forms of participant expression, and ownership using WhatsApp.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-03-23T07:39:37Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231165882
- Qualitative research in crisis: A narrative-practice methodology to delve
into the discourse and action of the unheard in the COVID-19 pandemic-
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Authors: Julie Boéri, Deborah Giustini
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This paper develops and applies a methodology of qualitative inquiry that equips researchers to capture how social actors produce and contest accepted forms of knowledge at the margins of mainstream globalizing discourses in times of crisis. Standing at the intersection between conceptual and empirical research, our methodology builds on the common epistemological premises of ‘narrative’, as stories constructed and enacted in social life, and ‘practice’, as tasks and projects composed by ‘doings’ and ‘sayings’. Overcoming the dualism between ‘action’ and ‘discourse’ in traditional social theory, this methodology integrates narrative theory and practice theory into a joint framework for fieldwork and interviews. The use of the narrative-practice methodology in ethnographic case studies – such as interpreters’ experience of the COVID-19 pandemic in Qatar – allows researchers to gain analytical granularity on participants’ storied practice and practiced stories of the crisis, to harness ‘peripheral’ knowledge and refashion public discourse.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-02-20T07:27:25Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941231155620
- Ethical challenges in participatory research with children and youth
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Authors: Judith Loveridge, Bronwyn Elisabeth Wood, Eddy Davis-Rae, Hiria McRae
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
The growth of relational, participatory, collaborative and emergent research approaches in recent years has brought new ethical challenges for research with children and youth. These approaches require greater consideration of the specific social and cultural contexts of the research, along with the greater emphasis on researcher–participant relationships that often occur over sustained periods of time. Very few tools are available to help researchers think through the everyday ethical dilemmas such research can raise. In this article, we review the theoretical underpinnings of feminist and indigenous research methodologies that have encouraged these emerging approaches. Through examining an 18-month Youth Participatory Action Research (YPAR) project case study, we critically review ethical moments relating to negotiating consent over a sustained period of time, enhancing co-design and navigating power issues between adult and youth researchers. We conclude with a number of questions to ‘think with’ when reflecting on ethical research with children and youth.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-02-16T10:56:28Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149594
- On fieldwork in the hybrid field: A “methodological novel” on
ethnography, photography, fiction, and creative writing-
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Authors: Luigi Gariglio
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This is an autoethnographic note on conducting fieldwork with the purpose of documenting; first, outside academia––doing documentary photography; and second doing ethnography and autoethnography within academia. It explores different ways to conduct fieldwork (alone or in groups, ethnographically or autoethnographically) and different traditional and innovative ideas about how the “field” was interpreted commonsensically in the past and could be interpreted now, using the analytical dimension of the hybrid field. It is written both autoethnographically and creatively and includes a short methodological “novel.” The research note concludes with a reflection on a particular field-work experience, tackling its limitation and imagining different ways to perform it.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-01-12T03:51:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149584
- Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas
pipeline development in Appalachia-
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Authors: Erin Brock Carlson, Martina Angela Caretta
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
Photovoice is an increasingly popular research method across disciplines due to its flexibility and capacity for generating rich data. This article argues that while its practical virtues are abundant, the theoretical contributions of photovoice to qualitative research are just as important. We argue that photographs can act as boundary objects that enable collective sensemaking at multiple stages of a research study. This is fulfilled through a case study of gas extraction and distribution networks and their social consequences in West Virginia, a state in the United States deeply entrenched geographically and culturally in natural resource extraction. Ultimately, this case study demonstrates that photovoice as a process and photographs as artifacts are sites for rich collaborative interpretation and provides a model of how to operationalize photos in multiple stages of research so that study designs are centered around participant experiences.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-01-05T01:06:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149582
- Tuning ourselves into place: Enhancing multivocality with video
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Authors: Beate Bursta, Trine Kvidal-Røvik, Outi Rantala
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
This article addresses the methodological aspects of a multi-voiced, collaborative ethnographic research process, in particular how video can enhance and amplify this research endeavour. The authors illustrate and discuss how experimental filmic methodologies can help to capture processes of becoming in a collaborative research endeavour, both enabling the development and production of diverse empirical materials and enhancing the multivocality of research practices. Using explorations of the National Tourist Route towards Havøysund in northern Norway as our empirical context, we reflect on diverse engagements along the process, such as becoming aware how the camcorder becomes a member in the research team. The filmed material forms an entanglement where our explorations along the route, our cultural practices related to the northern landscape and diverse disciplinary practices come together. We address three main ways video contributed to our research process and the creation of research materials. First, we highlight how video enables the creation of empirical traces that can be used as research materials. Second, we explore how video can work for mobilisation of multivocal dialogues. Finally, we point out that video opens the way for integration of the sensual into the research process.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-01-03T05:26:52Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149583
- Translating Interviews, interpreting lives: bi-lingual research analysis
informing less westernised views of international student mobility-
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Authors: Zhao Qun, Neil Carey
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
There are increasing instances in which researchers study their migrant co-nationals in one language but report their research findings in another language. This raises significant issues regarding the mediating role played by bilingual researcher-translators when translating research data: the decisions they make when bringing the Other’s world to their readers, and the strategies they adopt when making such decisions. These issues of data translation, as well as the unique experiences of the researcher-translators and the valuable knowledge that they generate from this process, have not yet been given adequate attention in the academic literature. In response, this article explores a translation analysis which allows the researcher-translator to reflect in detail on the methodological challenges that researcher-translators are likely to encounter. Introducing Poblete’s five operations of translation, we highlight the processes that the researcher-translator adopts in recognising, reflecting and negotiating with the (un)translatability of culturally embedded linguistic expression. Focusing on International Student Mobility (ISM) as a particular instance of research translation/analysis as cultural mediation, we demonstrate how our intention to attune to students’ own ISM journey in their own language reverberates in the mediation and interventions the researcher-translator conducted through the translation analysis. The article thus emphasises how translating interview scripts as part of the research is more than seeking linguistic correspondence, it is also about understanding non-western lives and life-words through a second-language.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-01-03T04:36:58Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149588
- Birds of a feather (don’t always) flock together: Critical reflexivity
of ‘Outsiderness’ as an ‘Insider’ doing qualitative research with
one’s ‘Own People’-
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Authors: Edward Ademolu
Abstract: Qualitative Research, Ahead of Print.
The article presents self-reflexive elaborations of negotiating ‘outsider’ positionalities as an ‘insider’ conducting a qualitative study of first-and-second-generation Nigerian diaspora communities in London, United Kingdom (UK) and the implications of this for the methodological documentation and interpretation of the research process as well as, the perspicuity of participants’ realities. Within the conceptual framing of ‘critical reflexivity’, this article details the author’s retrospective evaluation of the impact that his positionality – notably his outsiderness, and the biases, presuppositions and awkwardness accompanying this had at each stage of the research proccess. From formulating the research topic, methodological design and participant identification/recruitment, to data collection and analysis, this article reiterates the centrality of researcher reflexivity in qualitative inquiries of one’s ‘own people’. It concludes that while critical reflexivity affords a sensitivity and attention to challenges around methodological rigour and ethical research, ethnoracialised sameness between researchers and their supposed ‘own people’ is not always complementary, ideal and productive. This article makes important and original contributions to positionality debates in its specific application to the Nigerian diaspora advancing Black scholarship in the social sciences.
Citation: Qualitative Research
PubDate: 2023-01-02T04:15:38Z
DOI: 10.1177/14687941221149596
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