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- Agarwal, Pankhuri, et al.
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Introduction
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research : Addressing Moments of Discomfort - Addressing Moments of Discomfort.
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This chapter introduces the volume by presenting the questions of politics and ethics of representation in qualitative research. It also shows how these are approached in the following chapters through analyses of moments of discomfort in our research practice. We situate our work in critical, feminist and engaged scholarship and discuss how creating representation in qualitative research is linked to the issues of accountability and solidarity. The introduction then offers an overview of the chapters, showing how different representational practices, both in the field and in writing, open up for important ethical and political dilemmas.
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- Agarwal, Pankhuri, et al.
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Introduction
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Ingår i: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research. - London : Routledge. - 9780367281014 - 9780429299674 - 9780367281038 ; , s. 1-8
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In qualitative research, the research process is often filled with moments of discomfort. These discomforts can appear at any stage of the research: when choosing thesubject of research, during fieldwork, in the process of analysis and when presenting research findings to different audiences. In this edited volume, we take thesemoments of discomfort seriously and use them as sites of knowledge production forreflecting on the politics and ethics of the qualitative research process. By locatingour experiences in implementing nine different PhD projects carried out in different disciplines and research contexts in social sciences, we argue that these momentsof discomfort help us to gain important insights into the methodological, theoretical, ethical and political issues that are crucial for the fields we engage with. Drawingon feminist and other critical discussions (Mulinari and Sandell 1999, Gunaratnam2003, Back 2007, Gunaratnam and Hamilton 2017), we deal with questions such as:What does it mean to write about the lives of others? What are the ethical modesand conundrums of producing representations? In research projects that are locatedin the tradition of critical or engaged scholarship, how are ethics and politics of representation intertwined, and when are they distinct? How are politics of representation linked to the practice of solidarity in research? What are the im/possibilities ofhope and care in research?
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- Kolankiewicz, Marta, et al.
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Addressing moment of discomfort as researchers in becoming
- 2019
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This panel session is based on chapters from the upcoming anthology ”The politics and ethics of representation: Moments of discomfort” (Routledge, forthcoming). The qualitative research process is often filled with moments of discomfort. These can appear during all stages of the research: when choosing the subject of your research, during fieldwork, in the process of analysis and when presenting research findings to different audiences. We take these moments of discomfort seriously and use them productively as a starting point for reflections on the politics and ethics of the research process. Starting from our experiences in carrying out eight different research projects as PhD-fellows, we analyse moments of discomfort as sites of knowledge production that help us gain important analytical insights into methodological, theoretical, ethical and political issues that are crucial for the fields in which we engage. We argue that moments of discomfort relate to an anxiety of representation. Hence, the main questions that we address during the panel session are: How can we create an ethical representation of those with whom our research is concerned? What can be said or not in certain contexts? What are the tensions between aims of what we wish to represent and how this representation is understood by different audiences in specific contexts? The chapters presented during the panel session correspond to three areas that are crucial for issues of ethics and politics: (1) writing and naming; (2) power and silences; (3) stories and audiences. The session addresses different issues such as the practices of anonymisation, acts of rejection in relation to informed consent, silences in the fieldwork and in relation to representation, and considerations of representing stories from the field for different audiences.
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- Listerborn, Carina, et al.
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Med slöja i gatuvimlet
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Ingår i: I&M : Invandrare & minoriteter. - 1404-6857. ; 37:1, s. 34-38
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Allmänna värderingar och föreställningar i samhället kommer till uttryck i vardagen mitt ibland oss. När inställningen till invandrare hårdnar ökar det ”osynliga” våldet, inte minst mot kvinnor som bär den omdiskuterade ”slöjan”.
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- Sixtensson, Johanna
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Härifrån till framtiden : Om gränslinjer, aktörskap och motstånd i tjejers vardagsliv
- 2018
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This thesis explores the everyday life of a group of teenage girls living in the city of Malmö. The analytical focus is on how the girls’ encounter, negotiate with, reproduce and embody unequal socio-spatial gender structures, class relations and processes of racialization in their every day lives’. The partaking girls are positioned in different ways in relation to class and race. As well as live in different areas of the town of Malmö. This enables the thesis to explore how these differences affect the every day lives of the girls in various ways. Focus groups, individual semi-structured interviews and interviews in pairs where conducted between 2012 and 2013. The girls were recruited from upper secondary schools and youth projects within the Municipality of Malmö. In total 22 girls from an age range of 16-19 years old partook in the study. The narratives show that the partaking girls live under different everyday conditions but how they are also faced with similar power structures. The girls’ bodily orientations are in different ways affected by structural boundaries that regulate the girls’ social and spatial everyday movement. Unequal gender structures materialises for example by means of boys controlling spaces, by the dispersal of degrading rumours and by the girls' negotiations with gendered norms. By exploring the girls’ economic positions, material differences are revealed. Girls with families who have strong financial positions are able to finance their everyday life, but they can also afford extra treats, for example: trips abroad, luxury goods, clothes or savings accounts. The analysis also shows how consumption practices of the girls, and their families, are influenced by ideals driven by social status and class. Consumer practices, taste and style of clothes as well as different spatial settings are used as classed distinction markers. Encounters of everyday racism are tightly interwoven with normative constructions of Swedishness and need to be understood in relation to a hierarchical process of racialization where whiteness is constructed as a norm. In the girls’ narratives encounters of everyday racism on the one hand appear unpredictable; on the other hand, racist encounters appear as expected in some rooms and environments. The girls’ narratives often confirm patterns of segregation in Malmö described in previous research. However, the narratives also present nuances. The girls’ experience of different spatial settings seems to be ambivalent and paradoxical. The girls seem aware of power structures and boundaries and develop their agency to challenge them. They in different ways renegotiate ideals, create alternatives and practice resistance towards categorizations, social ideals and power-bearing norms. The thesis has especially focused on the exploration of means of collective resistance as well as collective alternative orientations. These acts of collective agency for instance takes place through the means of narrating (talk back), sometimes they appear as alternative ways of being and sometimes as a way of creating collective friendly (home) spaces.
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- Sixtensson, Johanna, et al.
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Risk, discomfort and disruption: experiences of (im)mobilitiesin public spaces among Swedish youth racialised as non-white
- 2024
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Ingår i: Journal of Youth Studies. - : Taylor & Francis. - 1367-6261 .- 1469-9680.
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Mobility can be understood as both an everyday part of, and a normative imperative in, young people’s lives. It is also an unequally distributed resource. Based on interviews and focus groups with people in their teens, this article analyses how young people racialised as non-white experience (im)mobility in public spaces in Sweden. Drawing on Sarah Ahmed’s theorising, the article discusses how spaces are experienced in the racialised social-spatial order of Stockholm and Malmö. The analysis shows that the negative reactions of others, such as ‘looks’ and ‘comments’, in places perceived as white (Swedish) makes the young people feel unwelcome and disrupt their mobility. The young people’s experiences correspond to overall societal patterns of racialisation and segregation within these cities and Sweden as a whole. The analysis also shows that the young people express aversion towards visiting certain spaces or talk about complete withdrawal from spaces seen as risky. To analyse such responses of ‘being stopped’ we introduce the concepts of ‘socio-spatial reluctance’ and ‘socio-spatial withdrawal’. The article concludes that youth spatial mobilities must be understood as restricted by racialised structures, which affect not only where this category of young people feel safe to go but also what they can do.
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- Sixtensson, Johanna
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‘To say no wasn't something we could do’ : Reflexive accounts and negotiations of the ethical practice of informed consent during the research process and beyond
- 2021
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Ingår i: The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research. - London : Routledge. - 9780429299674 - 9780367281038 - 9780367281014 ; , s. 30-42
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In this chapter, the implementation of the formal ethical principle of informed consent in the research process is discussed. By analyzing encounters and exchanges with a young research participant, both during the fieldwork and after publication, the text examines the meaning of the concept of consent and discloses complexities and ambivalences inherent in asking for and giving consent. It shows that giving consent or ‘saying no’ is a complicated practice that should not be reduced to a single act or signature on a consent form. Rather, consenting to participate in research is an open-ended, situated, ambivalent and not necessarily verbal process. It might also have an impact on participants beyond the actual research process: for instance, when faced with the researcher’s representations of personal interview accounts in research reports. The text captures the relationality that exists between researchers and those we research, especially regarding how dependent researchers are on participants’ consent, their acts and the quality of the empirical material that participants ‘generate’.
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- Sixtensson, Johanna
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Ungdomsprojekt i civilsamhällets organsisationer : Relationer, samarbeten och utmaningar
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Rapport (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Syftet med utvärderingen Ungdomsprojekt i civilsamhällets organisationer. Relationer, samarbeten och utmaningar har varit att ta tillvara erfarenheter och kunskap från arvsfondsprojekt med fokus på unga som utbildas till ledare och ambassadörer inom civilsamhällets organisationer. I utvärderingen har 27 projekt analyserats. Tre av dem har studerats mer djupgående och resterande 24 projekt har studerats mer översiktligt. De studerade projektens verksamheter och fokusområden är varierande. Bland annat representeras frågor om integration, idrott och föreningsliv, psykisk och/eller fysisk hälsa, barns och ungas rättigheter, demokratifrågor, miljö- och odlingsfrågor, förebyggande arbete kopplat till våldsbejakande extremism, ungas delaktighet, ungas sysselsättning, och jämställdhets- och fredsarbete.Vägledande i analysen har följande frågeställningar varit: Vilka spår lämnar Allmänna arvsfondens pengar? Under vilka betingelser lämnar pengarna spår? Vilka framkomliga vägar finner projekten och vilka hinder stöter de på? Hur upplever målgruppen insatserna? Vilka roller har målgrupperna i projekten och hur får de en röst? Vilka problemformuleringar beskrivs ligga till grund för projektens mål och syften och hur tolkas och hanteras dessa problem i teori och praktik av verksamhetsledare såväl som deltagare?I studien har tre olika vetenskapliga metoder använts: enkät, intervju samt dokumentstudie. Materialinsamlingen skedde under 2019–2021. Under denna tidsperiod gjordes studier av dokument, arbete med enkäter samt intervjuer parallellt med varandra.Majoriteten av projekten ger intrycket av att ha arbetat för att skapa goda förutsättningar för målgruppen runt om i Sverige. De ungas behov står många gånger i centrum.Projektens problemformuleringar, och dess faktiska arbete framstår i de flesta fall som ambitiösa och tydligt grundade i samhälleliga problem. Ibland kan projektens ambitioner dock framstå som för stora givet de komplexa problembeskrivningar man i projekten utgår från.I många av projekten framstår goda mellanmänskliga möten och relationsskapande som ett mål med och/eller konsekvens av projektverksamheten.Administrativa och organisatoriska förutsättningar framstår som en aspekt som för många av projekten har varit en svårighet, inte minst beskrivs detta arbete som väldigt tidskrävande.I projektens samverkan med andra parter ter sig kommunen som en samverkande ”bromskloss” såväl som en möjliggörare. Kommunens och det civila samhällets olika roller och uppdrag tycks avgörande när samarbetet fungerat mindre bra. Tydliga och avgränsade problemformuleringar framstår som underlättande för projektens genomföranden samt för hur väl projekten lyckas uppnå de mål de satt upp. En väl avgränsad målgrupp tycks i sin tur underlätta när det kommer till att involvera målgruppen i det praktiska projektarbetet. I vilken grad och hur de unga involveras i projekten ser väldigt olika ut.Vissa projekt har haft svårigheter att rekrytera unga till sina verksamheter. I flera fall har det varit svårare att rekrytera vissa grupper unga än andra. Flera projekt uppger att det har varit svårare att nå ut till tjejer än till killar. Syftet med de unga ledarrollerna (beskrivs också som ambassadörer, inspiratörer, språkrör, mentorer, förebilder och ledare) är med vissa undantag vagt preciserade. De unga ledarrollerna är många gånger kopplade till utbildningsinsatser. Även dessa tenderar att vara vagt preciserade eller inte uttalade alls.Finansiella hinder, i kombination med att nya projekt ska vara ”nytänkande”, beskrivs skapa svårigheter när projekten planerar för sin överlevnad.Några av projekten har i samband med projektslut omformat sig, dragit ner på verksamheten, gått tillbaka till ideellt arbete eller implementerats inom annan verksamhet. En del har funnit andra finansiärer och kan driva vidare verksamheten helt eller delvis. Andra har avslutats helt.En del av projekten lämnar spår i form av digitala plattformar, appar och metodböcker. För andra projekt kan spårskapandet beskrivas som att kunskap från projekten, eller handlingar i projektets anda, mer informellt implementerats i andra verksamheter och satsningar.
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The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- This book offers insights on politics and ethics of representation that are relevant to researchers concerned with struggles for justice. It takes moments of discomfort in the qualitative research process as important sites of knowledge for exploring representational practices in critical research.The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research draws on experiences from research processes in nine PhD projects. In some chapters, ethical and political dilemmas related to representational practices are analyzed as experienced in fieldwork. In others, the focus is on the production of representation at the stage of writing. The book deals with questions such as: What does it mean to write about the lives of others? How are ethics and politics of representation intertwined, and how are they distinct? How are politics of representation linked to a practice of solidarity in research? What are the im/possibilities of hope and care in research?Drawing on grounded empirical research, the book offers input to students, PhDs, researchers, practitioners, activists and others dealing with methodological dilemmas from a critical perspective. Instead of ignoring discomforts, or describing them as solved, we stay with them, showing how such a reflective process provides new, ongoing insights.
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The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research : Addressing Moments of Discomfort
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This book offers insights on politics and ethics of representation that are relevant to researchers concerned with struggles for justice. It takes moments of discomfort in the qualitative research process as important sites of knowledge for exploring representational practices in critical research.The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research draws on experiences from research processes in nine PhD projects. In some chapters, ethical and political dilemmas related to representational practices are analyzed as experienced in fieldwork. In others, the focus is on the production of representation at the stage of writing. The book deals with questions such as: What does it mean to write about the lives of others? How are ethics and politics of representation intertwined, and how are they distinct? How are politics of representation linked to a practice of solidarity in research? What are the im/possibilities of hope and care in research?Drawing on grounded empirical research, the book offers input to students, PhDs, researchers, practitioners, activists and others dealing with methodological dilemmas from a critical perspective. Instead of ignoring discomforts, or describing them as solved, we stay with them, showing how such a reflective process provides new, ongoing insights.
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