Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2014 ◽  
pp. 164-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kum-Kum Bhavnani ◽  
Peter Chua ◽  
Dana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term “critical,” in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the production of situated knowledges. It uses Bhavnani’s framework to draw on Dana Collins’ research as a specific case to suggest how the notion of the “critical” relates to ethnographic research practices: ensuring feminist and queer accountability, resisting reinscription, and integrating lived experience.

Critical Approaches to Qualitative Research

2020 ◽  
pp. 242-262
Author(s):  
Kum-Kum Bhavnani ◽  
Peter Chua ◽  
Dana Collins
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Critical Ethnography ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Situated Knowledges ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

This chapter reflects on critical strategies in qualitative research. It examines the meanings and debates associated with the term critical, in particular, contrasting liberal and dialectical notions and practices in relation to social analysis and qualitative research. The chapter also explores how critical social research may be synonymous with critical ethnography in relation to issues of power, positionality, representation, and the production of situated knowledges. It uses Bhavnani’s framework to draw on Dana Collins’s research as a specific case to suggest how the notion of the critical relates to ethnographic research practices: ensuring feminist and queer accountability, resisting reinscription, and integrating lived experience.

scholarly journals Critical Social Analysis of Crisis

2021 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 7-37
Author(s):  
Felipe Ziotti Narita ◽  
Jeremiah Morelock
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Critical Approach ◽  
Capitalist Development ◽  
The Social ◽  
Critical Approaches ◽  
Critical Social

In this article, we offer a critical social analysis of crisis in light of capitalist development and, above all, in the post-2008 world. We discuss five approaches in the social sciences that deal with the problem of crisis and develop some theore­tical lines for a critical approach to the theme. We argue that precarity can be an important topic for grasping the current crises via critical approaches. The text also presents the six articles that are part of the issue we edited for Praktyka Teoretyczna entitled “Latency of the crisis.”

scholarly journals ‘If you Had Balls, You'd be One of Us!’ Doing Gendered Research: Methodological Reflections on Being a Female Academic Researcher in the Hyper-Masculine Subculture of ‘Football Hooliganism’

2012 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 67-79 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Poulton
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Image Management ◽  
Presentation Of Self ◽  
Academic Researcher ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Emotional Labour ◽  
Female Researcher

This article reflects upon being a female academic researcher in the hyper-masculine subculture of ‘football hooliganism’. With this subculture being a male-dominated field of study, the article argues that gender blindness has prevailed in most studies conducted by male researchers, with a failure to consider the positioning, practices and performances of the gendered self in the gendered field. Nor has this been a consideration of the rare female researcher working on the phenomenon. This article breaks this gendered silence by drawing on my own fieldwork experiences with (‘retired’) football hooligans to identify the methodological challenges specifically (re)negotiated as a female academic throughout the gendered research process and offers some strategies and field tips to future researchers faced with gendered incongruence with their informers. The key concerns for me were: first, gaining access to a hyper-masculine subculture; second, entering and developing rapport within the subculture; and third, ‘doing gendered research’ in the hyper-masculine field. Central to negotiating these challenges was a very conscious and performative presentation of self, often for self-preservation, during the research process. In practice, this sometimes required demonstrating that I had the (metaphorical) ‘balls’ in terms of my (gendered) image management. The article argues for consideration of the performativity of social research with a need for wider disclosure of the complexities and ‘messiness’ of qualitative research practices and the emotional labour required.

scholarly journals DISCOURSE ANALYSIS IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH: NOTES FROM AN EXPERIENCE WITH HOMOEROTIC MICRO-TERRITORIALITIES

GEOgraphia ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 22 (49) ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexandro da Silva ◽  
Carlos Roberto de Castro E Silva
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Studies ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Geographic Space ◽  
Analysis Methodology ◽  
Multiple Dimension ◽  
Investigación Cualitativa ◽  
The Way

Abstract: This article addresses discourse analysis as analysis methodology in the field of Qualitative Research and Geography. Recognizing that the possibilities of analysis in qualitative studies comprise multiple-dimension questions (epistemological, theoretical and technical), this study is based on an ethnographic research in a territory where the predominant circulation is of men who have sex with other men in order to propose dialogues and problematizations on concepts and research practices that intersect references of discourse analysis, geography of sexuality and the practices of analysis in the context of qualitative research. The results point to the possibility of using discourse analysis to analyze the geographic space (its limits and possibilities) while reiterating the need for a reflection on the way analysis methodologies demand more consistent appropriations in the use of academic studies.Keywords: qualitative research, discourse analysis, territory, geography of sexuality.ANÁLISE DE DISCURSO EM PESQUISA QUALITATIVA: NOTAS DE UMA EXPERIÊNCIAS A PARTIR DE MICROTERRITORIALIDADES HOMOERÓTICASResumo: O artigo discute a análise de discurso como metodologia de análise no campo da Pesquisa Qualitativa e da Geografia. Reconhecendo que as possibilidades de análise em pesquisas qualitativas comportam questões de múltiplas dimensões (epistemológicas, teóricas e técnicas), o estudo parte de uma pesquisa etnográfica em um território cuja circulação predominante é de homens que fazem sexo com outros homens para propor diálogos e problematizações acerca de conceitos e práticas de pesquisa que interseccionam referências da análise de discurso, da geografia da sexualidade e das práticas de análise em contexto de pesquisas qualitativas. Os resultados apontam para a possibilidade de uso da análise de discurso na análise do espaço geográfico (seus limites e possibilidades) ao mesmo tempo que reitera a necessidade de uma reflexão sobre a forma como metodologias de análise demandam apropriações mais consistentes no uso de estudos acadêmicos.Palavras chave: pesquisa qualitativa, análise de discurso, território, geografia da sexualidade.ANÁLISIS DEL DISCURSO EN LA INVESTIGACIÓN CUALITATIVA: APUNTES DE UNA EXPERIENCIA DESDE MICROTERRITORIALIDADES HOMOSEXUALESResumen: El artículo discute el análisis del discurso como metodología de análisis en el campo de la Investigación Cualitativa y la Geografía. Reconociendo que las posibilidades de análisis en la investigación cualitativa involucran cuestiones de múltiples dimensiones (epistemológicas, teóricas y técnicas), el estudio parte de una investigación etnográfica en un territorio cuya circulación predominante es de hombres que tienen sexo con otros hombres para proponer diálogos y preguntas sobre de conceptos y prácticas de investigación que cruzan referencias de análisis del discurso, geografía de la sexualidad y prácticas de análisis en el contexto de la investigación cualitativa. Los resultados apuntan a la posibilidad de utilizar el análisis del discurso en el análisis del espacio geográfico (sus límites y posibilidades) al tiempo que reiteran la necesidad de reflexionar sobre cómo las metodologías de análisis demandan apropiaciones más consistentes en el uso de los estudios académicosPalabras clave: investigación cualitativa, análisis del discurso, territorio, geografía de la sexualidad. 

scholarly journals Whats and Hows? The Practice-Based Typology of Narrative Analyses

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 120-142
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Bryda
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Text Mining ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Corpus Linguistics ◽  
English Language ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Data Driven Approach ◽  
Analytical Approaches

The nature of qualitative research practices is multiparadigmaticity which creates coexistence of different research and analytical approaches to the study of human experience in the living world. This diversity is particularly observed in the contemporary field of narrative research and data analysis. The purpose of this article is a methodological reflection on the process of developing typology and a proposition of new data-driven and practice-based typology of narrative analyses used by qualitative researchers in the lived experience research. I merge the CAQDAS, Corpus Linguistics, and Text Mining procedures to examine the analytical strategies inherited in a vivid language of English-language research articles, published in five influential qualitative methodological journals between 2002-2016. Using the dictionary-based content analysis in the coding process, hierarchical clustering, and topic modeling – a text-mining tool for discovering hidden semantic structures in a textual body – I confront Catherine Kohler Riessman’s heuristic typology with the data-driven approach in order to contribute the more coherent image of narrative analysis in the contemporary field of qualitative research. Finally, I propose a new model of thinking about the typology of narrative analyses based upon research practices.

Collective Fieldwork Interviews in the Classroom Without Walls

2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 356-380
Author(s):  
Daniel Makagon
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Research Practices ◽  
Experiential Pedagogy ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
Learning Focused

This article uses a course that meets from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. as a context to critically examine collective collaborative fieldwork as an experiential pedagogy that helps students better understand and practice qualitative fieldwork interviews. A collective interviewing experience can provide each student with practice and establish a situation for relatively sustained learning-focused dialogue and debate about interviewing ethics. With this context in mind, I critically examine how interviewing participants in a group scenario can help students understand spurned interview requests, the effects on researcher-participant relationships, and the alteration of temporal and spatial scenes in which interviews take shape as well as teach students about the important nuances of translation during interviews. Taken together, these four issues offer important ways to think about team-based fieldwork projects as an alternative to lone-ethnographer models of research practices that are foregrounded in qualitative research literature and in fieldwork-based courses.

Narrated Photography

2015 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 30-52
Author(s):  
Sarah Dunlop ◽  
Peter Ward
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Material Culture ◽  
Family Relationships ◽  
Research Method ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Ethnographic Research ◽  
Lived Religion ◽  
Visual Context ◽  
Textual Material ◽  
Shed Light

This article describes how a recently refined visual ethnographic research method, “narrated photography,” contributes to the study of religion. We argue that this qualitative research method is particularly useful for studies of lived religion and demonstrate this through examples drawn from a study the sacred among young Polish migrants to England. Narrated photography, which entails asking people to photograph what is personally significant to them and then to narrate the image, generates visual and textual material that mediates the subjective. Through using this method we discovered that family was considered to be sacred, both in terms of links to religious practice and a desire for a secure home which family relationships provide. Additionally, narrated photography has the potential to expand our conceptions of lived religion through the inclusion of visual material culture and the visual context of the research participants. In this case the data revealed that the Polish young people view structures within their landscape through a particularly Polish Catholic lens. These findings shed light on the religious tensions that migrants encounter in everyday life.

Reverse mediations: digital methods of social research for digital citizenship

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marina Pantoja Boechat ◽  
Débora De Carvalho Pereira
Keyword(s):  
Information Technologies ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Social Reality ◽  
Digital Citizenship ◽  
Social Analysis ◽  
Hegemonic Discourse ◽  
Methods Of Social Research ◽  
Digital Methods ◽  
The Many

Our society is heavily mediated by information technologies, so the simplest interactions become traceable, which collaborates to a deluge of data. They represent an abundant source for social analysis and an unparalleled opportunity for citizens to access, produce and disseminate information. Nevertheless, all this affluence of data, for presenting itself in a scattered way, also poses significant difficulties for achieving an integrated view of social reality and its interactions, and is organized in many competing interfaces and information architectures, that may produce, reinforce and disseminate ideologies, hegemonic discourse and platform biases. We identify an emerging field of dispute of the place of mediation of the many flows of information, and efforts for repurposing and restructuring these flows over the seamless structuring of different competing architectures. In order to describe some of these efforts, we draw examples from the field of controversy mapping, and propose the concept of reverse mediation.

Studying Globalization at Home

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sunil Bhatia
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Cultural Narratives ◽  
Cultural Codes ◽  
Qualitative Approaches ◽  
Interpretive Methods ◽  
Significant Interest ◽  
At Home

This chapter documents the ethnographic context in which the interviews and participant observation were conducted for the study presented in this book. It also situates the study within the context of narrative inquiry and develops arguments about the role of self-reflexivity in doing ethnography at “home” and producing qualitative forms of knowledge that are based on personal, experiential, and cultural narratives. It is argued that there is significant interest in the adoption of interpretive methods or qualitative research in psychology. The qualitative approaches in psychology present a provocative and complex vision of how the key concepts related to describing and interpreting cultural codes, social practices, and lived experience of others are suffused with both poetical and political elements of culture. The epistemological and ontological assumptions undergirding qualitative research reflect multiple “practices of inquiry” and methodologies that have different orientations, assumptions, values, ideologies, and criterion of excellence.

A practice report for e-moderators: Promoting participatory engagement within discussion boards for online students

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ameena Leah Payne
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Social Research ◽  
Department Of Education ◽  
Research Centre ◽  
Online Students ◽  
Online Instructors ◽  
Personal Learning ◽  
Education Experience ◽  
Learning Conversations ◽  
Participatory Engagement

According to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training (2017b), the number of fully online students grew from 17.5% in 2010 (Stone & O'Shea, 2019, p. 57) to 26% in 2019 (Department of Education, Skills and Employment, 2020). However, positive ratings for engagement are 62% less overall for online learners (The Social Research Centre, 2020). Through the lens of the ‘Community of Inquiry’ education experience (Garrison, 2006), this practice reports provides guidance and examples for online instructors to engage students within discussions in the digital realm. Five elements will be discussed: embedding multi-media, affiliative humour and storytelling, Socratic questioning, ‘reframes’ and summarising and ‘weaving’. Based on the lived experience of one eLearning Advisor, or online instructor/e-moderator, at Swinburne Online, this practice report offers suggestions to build engaging, sustainable learning conversations that are abundant with collaborative inquiry, dialogue and sharing of personal learning experiences for online students in higher education.

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