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- Aarsand, Pål Andre, 1970-, et al.
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Producing children's corporeal privacy : Ethnographic video recording as material-discursive practice
- 2010
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - London : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 10:2, s. 249-268
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article discusses the use of video cameras in participant observation drawing on approximately 300 hours of video data from an ethnographic study of Swedish family life. Departing from Karen Barad’s post-humanistic perspective on scientific practices, the aim is to critically analyse how researchers, research participants and technology produce and negotiate children’s corporeal privacy. Ethnographic videotaping is understood as a material- discursive practice that creates and sustains boundaries between private and public, where videotaping is ideologically connected to a public sphere that may at times ‘intrude’ on children’s corporeal privacy. The limits of corporeal privacy are never fixed, but open for negotiation; ethnographers may therefore unintentionally transgress the boundary and thus be faced with ethical dilemmas. The fluidity of privacy calls for ethical reflexivity before, during and after fieldwork, and researchers must be sensitive to when ethical issues are at hand and how to deal with them.
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- Andersson, Åsa, 1973, et al.
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Becoming interested - the evolvement of research interest in case study research on sports
- 2023
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 23:4, s. 866-882
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article challenge research political assumptions of research interests as context specific phenomena predefined by researchers and others in case study research on sports. By adopting a Deleuzian perspective of materiality, the aim is to overturn academic power dimensions as well as anthropocentric focuses and instead explore how research interests emerge in case-assemblages. This is a radical shift that re-theorizes the production of research interests as co-produced capacities in researching bodies. The analysis is done by mapping territorializing, deterritorializing, and reterritorializing affects as well as molar and molecular affects. We use these affects to explore how our research interest evolved in a case study on a swimming event. We conclude by extending this critical exploration to the production of research interests in general and the exaggerated belief that research interests are attributes of specific human bodies (researchers) that precede studies.
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- Bergman Blix, Stina, 1971-, et al.
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The emotional labour of gaining and maintaining access to the field
- 2015
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 15:6, s. 688-704
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The role of emotions in qualitative research receives increasing attention. We argue for an active rather than a reactive approach towards emotions to improve the quality of research; emotions are a vital source of information and researchers use emotions strategically. Analysing the emotion work of researchers in the process of gaining, securing and maintaining access to the Swedish judiciary, we propose that the emotion work involved is a type of emotional labour, required by the researcher in order to successfully collect data. The particular case of researching elites is highlighted. Emotional labour is analysed along three dimensions: 1. Strategic emotion work – building trust outwards and self-confidence inwards; 2. Emotional reflexivity – attentiveness to emotional signals monitoring one’s position and actions in the field; and 3. Emotion work to cope with emotive dissonance – inward-directed emotion work to deal with the potentially alienating effects of strategic emotion work.
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- Brock Carlson, Erin, et al.
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Collaborative sensemaking through photos: Using photovoice to study gas pipeline development in Appalachia
- 2024
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1741-3109 .- 1468-7941.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-, et al.
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Feminist participatory methodologies in geography : creating spaces of inclusion
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 16:3, s. 258-266
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This introduction prefaces a special issue on the topic of feminist participatory methodologies in geography. Drawing upon the experiences of the contributors in developing new tools and methods to facilitate interaction with participants and working with groups that tend to be forgotten, subordinated and/or alienated, we argue for the methodological significance of instating a feminist perspective to participatory research. Although much theoretical debate has taken place among feminist and post-colonial scholars on unequal research relationships between “researchers” and “research subjects”, the literature on how to operationalize greater equality remains quite limited. We attempt to fill this research gap by bringing together scholars working in both the Northern and Southern hemispheres in order to illuminate the multifaceted ways in which these methods can be used not only to debunk hierarchical research relationships, but also to produce new scientific insights with greater validity.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Member checking : a participatory method to test and analyze preliminary results in cross-cultural, cross-language research
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109.
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Annan publikation (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Participation and reflexivity have become buzzwords that are seldom discussed in terms of their practical employment. Against this backdrop, with a specific focus on geography, this article presents and analyzes the advantages and limitations of a methodological tool that seeks to enhance both reflexivity and participation. The tool was a pamphlet written in local languages that contained several pictures and summarized the data gathered in previous fieldwork sessions. This tool was used in a four-year research project on the gender division of labor in smallholder irrigation farming in Kenya and Tanzania. The pamphlet showed participants their contributions to the research process and offered them the opportunity to correct, improve and further discuss previously collected data. It not only ensured research validity but also allowed for a shift in the research power hierarchy. Finally, the pamphlet effectively created a space for inclusion, discussion and reciprocal learning, leading to collective reflexivity and catalytic validity by empowering participants and re-orienting the researcher.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela
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Member checking : A feminist participatory analysis of the use of preliminary results pamphlets in cross-cultural, cross-language research
- 2016
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 16:3, s. 305-318
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Participation and reflexivity have become buzzwords that are seldom discussed in terms of their practical employment. Against this backdrop, with a specific focus on geography, this article presents and analyzes the advantages and limitations of a methodological tool that seeks to enhance both reflexivity and participation. The tool was a pamphlet written in local languages that contained several pictures and summarized the data gathered in previous fieldwork sessions. This tool was used in a four-year research project on the gender division of labor in smallholder irrigation farming in Kenya and Tanzania. The pamphlet showed participants their contributions to the research process and offered them the opportunity to correct, improve and further discuss previously collected data. It not only ensured research validity but also allowed for a shift in the research power hierarchy. Finally, the pamphlet effectively created a space for inclusion, discussion and reciprocal learning, leading to collective reflexivity and catalytic validity by empowering participants and re-orienting the researcher.
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- Caretta, Martina Angela, 1986-
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Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research : a collaborative reflexive analysis of researcher, assistant and participant subjectivities
- 2014
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 15:4, s. 489-505
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyzes situated knowledge through the lens of the author and her three field assistants. This work is written self-reflexively and is based on geographical fieldwork in Eastern Africa. It seeks to capitalize on the personal and professional relationships of the researcher and her field assistants to improve both research outcomes and working arrangements. Reflecting on episodes of failure, anxiety and misunderstanding, it disentangles the power geometry of situated knowledge and sheds light on the vital role played by the assistant/interpreter and by his/her positionality ‘in the making’ of cross-cultural, cross-language research. Grounded in a feminist epistemological perspective, this article shows that methodological reflexivity should engage not only the researcher or the participants but also the field assistants. This praxis is crucial to enhancing the validity of studies conducted in a cross-cultural, cross-language environment across social science.
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- Cleeve, Helena, et al.
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Drawing in-situ : Matters of care and representation in daily life with dementia
- 2023
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : Sage Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 23:3, s. 782-808
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article brings methodological insight into in-situ drawings as representations of daily life with dementia. As part of ethnographic fieldwork in dementia care units in a nursing home, drawings were made on site by a researcher. We suggest that the ambiguity of in-situ drawings, and the ensuing possibilities to disambiguate them, is valuable. Inspired by Asdal and Moser’s (2012) concept of “contexting,” we experimented with arranging the drawings with fieldnotes, discussing them with staff members, as well as with configuring multiple drawings and fieldnotes in sequences. This led to reflexive engagements with the drawings, creating space for discussing concerns in research practices and care practices. Switching between different forms of contexting produced tensions, revealing that what was cared for through the practices of researchers, staff members, and residents, diverged. In this way, we argue that contexting in-situ drawings may intervene in ways of knowing, caring for, and living with dementia.
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- Demir, Robert, 1972-, et al.
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Mangling the process : a meta-theoretical account of process theorizing
- 2015
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Ingår i: Qualitative Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 1468-7941 .- 1741-3109. ; 15:1, s. 85-104
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Process approaches are increasingly applied in qualitative studies in many fields within social sciences.Yet, few studies have seriously elaborated on the ontological premises of process theorizing.This study addresses this void by suggesting a process philosophical framework. The frameworkis ontologically grounded with the concepts of causality, spatiality, and temporality in processtheorizing. We use these tenets for developing three process theorizing techniques – articulating,relating, and conjugating. Articulating denotes to effectively expressing the potential identifying andgenerative properties of the process. Relating is the technique by which one maintains continuousconnections within and between reified properties of a process. Conjugating is the technique bywhich a process’ identifying and generative properties are pulled together from various temporaland spatial sites in order to form a novel nexus. Each of these techniques builds on processphilosophy and process theory and is illustrated through examples from prior process studies.
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