CommentsTrina Grillo: Productive Rage

2021 ◽  
pp. 157-160
Author(s):  
Carol Pauli
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Family Law ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
Women's Stories

Trina Grillo’s article was powerful because it conveyed a woman’s anger, rising from deep inside the field. Writing as a woman of mixed race and as a mediator, Grillo critiqued mediation by enlisting its own methods: she drew her insights from behavioral and social sciences and from women’s stories of lived experience. Grillo wrote that mandated mediation in the intimate field of family law could trap a woman in an impossible dilemma. Forced to face her opponent at the informal mediation table, she could be “good”—cooperative, responsible, and calm. Or she could be “bad”—bitter, vengeful, and raging. Either way, silent or screaming, the woman was losing her voice....

Waiting in organisations

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 587-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catherine Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Consumer Behaviour ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Employee Experience ◽  
Diverse Groups ◽  
Shed Light

Waiting is a pervasive feature of organisational life and, as such, is likely to be important for a range of individual and organisational outcomes. Although extant research has shed light on the waiting experiences of diverse groups such as those suffering from illness, waiting in detention centres or queuing, there have been no previous attempts to theorise waiting specifically from the perspective of the employee. To address this gap, we draw on theories of temporality and waiting in fields such as consumer behaviour as well as the wider social sciences to develop the notion of ‘situated waiting’ which uncovers the complexity of the lived experience of waiting from the perspective of the employee. This experience is associated with factors at the level of the individual, the wait itself, and the broader waiting context. We outline the implications for future research on this hitherto hidden domain of the employee experience.

scholarly journals Queer Practice as Research: A Fabulously Messy Business

2015 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-87 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALYSON CAMPBELL ◽  
STEPHEN FARRIER
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Short Piece ◽  
Auto Ethnography ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Embodied Resistance ◽  
A Current

This short piece highlights a current spurt in queer researcher–practitioners doing practice as research (PaR) in higher education and explores potential reasons why PaR is so vital, appealing, useful and strategic for queer research. As a starting point, we offer the idea of messiness and messing things up as a way of describing the methods of PaR. Queer mess is to do with asserting the value and pleasure of formations of knowledge that sit outside long-standing institutional hierarchies of research. The latter places what Robin Nelson calls ‘hard knowledge’ above tacit, quotidian, haptic and embodied knowledge. The methodological and philosophical impulses of PaR make space for a range of research methods inherently bound up with the researcher as an individual and the materiality of lived experience within research. Yet, in our experience, although each PaR project is individual, PaR projects follow certain shared modes evolving largely from embodied and heuristic research methods adapted from social sciences, such as (auto)ethnography, participant observation, phenomenology and action research. PaR methodology in theatre and performance is composed of a bricolage of these openly embodied methods, which makes PaR, as an embodied resistance to sanitary boundaries, somewhat queer in academic terms already. It is unsurprising, then, that PaR is so attractive to queer practitioner–researchers bent on queering normative hierarchies of knowledge.

scholarly journals Technology and Narratives of Continuity in Transgender Experiences

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Amy Billingsley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Meaning Making ◽  
Fundamental Change ◽  
Trans People ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Media

This essay examines narratives of fundamental change, which portray a break in the continuity between a pre-transition and post-transition transgender subject, in accounts of transgender transitions. Narratives of fundamental change highlight the various changes that occur during transition and its disruptive effects upon a trans subject’s continuous identity. First, this essay considers the historical appearance of fundamental change narratives in the social sciences, the media, and their use by families of trans people, partners of trans people, and trans people themselves. After this is a consideration of Mark Johnson’s account of narrative as a meaning-making activity that occurs in the context of social norms. Johnson’s account is then applied to narratives of fundamental change to explain why these narratives occur, especially in relation to social norms and lived experience. The essay concludes by considering the trajectory of fundamental change narratives, looking at emerging transgender narratives, which stress a more integrated, complex account of transgender lives.

scholarly journals Gypsies’ and Travellers’ lived experience of harm: A critical hate studies perspective

2020 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 502-520 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zoë James
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Theoretical Approach ◽  
Race And Ethnicity ◽  
Criminological Theory ◽  
Late Modernity ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Uk

This article sets out how a critical hate studies perspective can explain and illuminate the hate harms experienced by Gypsies and Travellers in the UK. In doing so, it directly responds to the question of how criminological theory can move beyond existing debates in studies of race and ethnicity and engage more effectively with the wider social sciences. The critical hate studies perspective provides a comprehensive theoretical approach to appreciating the harms of hate in late modernity. This framework challenges existing explanations for bias-motivated violence in society and proposes an approach that acknowledges the overarching role of neoliberal capitalism on individual subjectivity and subsequently the lived experience. By utilising this perspective, it is possible here to discuss the range and depth of hate experienced by Gypsies and Travellers and thus consider its genesis and the potential for positive praxis.

Introduction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Mark Davis ◽  
Davina Lohm
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Public Health ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Narrative Theory ◽  
Public Health Emergency ◽  
Swine Flu ◽  
Global Public Health ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Come ◽  
Empirical Material

This chapter sets the scene for the book by introducing the significance of narrative and its mediations for the experience of a global public health emergency. It provides some necessary detail on the swine flu pandemic of 2009 to help the reader situate the empirical material to come in following chapters. The chapter also introduces “Cameron’s infection story” to explain how we use narrative in this book and make links with narrative theory in the social sciences. Cameron’s story also helps to locate the book in the lived experience of everyday people in 2009 and foregrounds the focus of this book on the stories of individuals affected in different ways by the pandemic.

scholarly journals Autoimmune: A "Medicinal History"

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sasha A. Khan
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Mixed Race ◽  
The Self ◽  
White Supremacist ◽  
The Past

In this project, I provide a "medicinal history" (Morales 1998) of my experiences of disability, Madness, and medical abuse, offering a creative format for archiving the past in order to craft healing futures. Weaving stories together with a rag doll index of myself, I craft my own "theory in the flesh," (Moraga and Anzaldúa 2015, 19) a counternarrative of resistance to interlocking systems of oppression grounded in my own lived experience as a queer, non-binary, mixed-race, desi, disabled, Mad, femme of color. By tracing white supremacist, colonial, heteropatriarchal, ableist, and saneist violence onto my body, I reimagine the ways that embodied traumas can morph to become possibilities for generative healing praxes. "Autoimmune" is a story of disabled and mad becoming, of the unspooling of the self and ableist/sanist definitions of (dis)ability and madness, and of the "re-storying" (Driskill 2016, 3) of disability and madness through a praxis of kinship.

Feminist Philosophy of Social Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sharon Crasnow
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Preliminary Investigation ◽  
Standpoint Theory ◽  
Feminist Philosophy ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Research Questions

This chapter offers a preliminary investigation of some of the ways that feminist philosophers have and might continue to learn from, interact with, and ultimately contribute to discussions about key issues in the social sciences. It begins with a brief history of feminist engagement with the social sciences. In next turns to consideration of two areas in which feminist work has made a difference: methodology and concept critique. Feminist standpoint methodology, as used primarily by feminist sociologists, has been influential in both of these areas. The success of standpoint theory as a feminist methodology has motivated philosophical exploration of its relationship to feminist epistemology. Another area in which feminist approaches have had an impact is feminist critique of concepts. The way the objects of inquiry are conceptualized has an impact on what research questions can be answered. Concepts that are inadequate to capturing the lived experience of women may call for revision or replacement. Standpoint theory has been influential in this area as well. The chapter concludes by considering some questions raised by standpoint theory about the identity of knowers and how intersectionality may serve as an analytical tool to aid in addressing that question.

scholarly journals Soldiering on: a survey on the lived experience of tinnitus in aged military veterans in the UK

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 (4) ◽  
pp. 408-415 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgina Burns-O'Connell ◽  
David Stockdale ◽  
Derek James Hoare
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Military Veterans ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Natural Consequence ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Listening Ability ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Impact

Tinnitus has long been interrogated as a medical conundrum, with little discourse between medicine and other disciplines. It involves the perception of sound in the ears or head without any external sound source, most likely a natural consequence of some form of hearing loss. For many people, tinnitus is bothersome and associated with various problems such as insomnia, difficulty concentrating and impaired listening ability. Nevertheless, with little attention from humanities or the social sciences, our understanding of the wider perspectives and psychosocial context of adults with tinnitus is limited, especially among UK military veterans. The aim of this study was to explore the impact of tinnitus on aged UK veterans, and to consider the support they receive and require to live well with tinnitus. In all, 120 aged UK veterans took part in this study. Data revealed similarities and differences between UK veteran and other study populations. For example, tinnitus symptom severity was higher in aged veterans than a general (younger) research population, particularly so on measures of intrusiveness and the effect of tinnitus on listening ability. Veterans had mixed views on social support. Many did not want to talk about tinnitus with others and/or did not want to burden their family, preferring to deal with their tinnitus ‘backstage’. Others appreciated empathy or sympathy; many implied a desire that their family and/or friends could better understand their experience of living with tinnitus and the problems it caused them. These complexities support a need for cross-disciplinary work to understand and respond to tinnitus-related problems in veterans.

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