Feel-bad moments: Unpacking the complexity of class, gender and whiteness when studying ‘up’

2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 470-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Sohl
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Studying Up

Intimacy, shared experiences and evening out the power relations between researcher and the participants play an important role in feminist methodology. However, as highlighted in previous research on studying ‘up’, such methods might not be appropriate when studying privileged groups. Therefore, studying privileged women challenges fundamental assumptions in feminist methodology. When researching privileged women, the assumption that the researcher is almost always in a superior position within the research process becomes more complicated. The article seeks to contribute to the feminist methodological literature on how to study privileged groups by exploring how class, gender and whiteness are produced in three fieldwork situations with women who hold privileges in a postcolonial and capitalist landscape. Drawing on interviews and participant observations with white Swedish migrant women, the article argues that researchers need to turn the problems, fears and feelings of being uncomfortable into important data, in order to study privileged groups of women.

scholarly journals The Chimera: Multiple Selves, Conflicting Desires, and Fluctuating Power Relations in Qualitative Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Su Jung Um
Keyword(s):  
Power Relations ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Complex Relationship ◽  
Multiple Selves ◽  
Teaching Experiences ◽  
Dialogic Inquiry ◽  
Preservice Program ◽  
Political Opinions

In this article, I (re)constructed and (re)presented a dialogic inquiry among my chimeric selves engaged in a study which I conducted from 2013 to 2017 to examine teaching experiences of graduates from a social justice-oriented preservice program. I interrogated the roles of my different, disparate, and discontinuous selves in the research process – as a former teacher, a former instructor of my research participants, a researcher with particular academic and political opinions, and as a foreigner working toward a doctoral degree from/in a U.S. higher education institution. In this article, I demonstrated how my chimeric selves with conflicting desires and agendas merged and clashed in the research process. I also portrayed how my chimeric selves added layers to the complex relationship between the participants and me and, accordingly, how power relations in the research were momentary and uncontrollably shifting.

scholarly journals Co-constructing feminist research: Ensuring meaningful participation while researching the experiences of criminalised women

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 205979912092526
Author(s):  
Nicola A Harding
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Meaningful Participation ◽  
Transformative Action

Traditional forms of knowledge production can serve to reproduce the power imbalances present within the social contexts that research and knowledge production occur. With the interests of the discipline of criminology so closely entwined with the criminal justice system, it is no surprise that crime, punishment, rehabilitation and desistance have not been adequately examined from a gendered perspective. This article examines a participatory action research process conducted with criminalised women subject to community punishment and probation supervision in the North West of England. By examining the feminist methodology within which this research is framed, discussions about meaningful collaboration offer insights into the potential for creativity in research to become transformative. Using a range of creative qualitative research methods, specifically map making, photovoice and creative writing, this research attempts to understand the experience of criminalised women. Charting the way in which this research prioritises the collaboration of criminalised women at all stages of the research process, this article proposes that ‘meaningful’ participation is about more than process management. It is only by moving beyond typologies of participation, towards an understanding of how participation in the created research space responds to the groups wider oppression, in this case by overcoming trauma or demonstrating reform, that collaboration with holders of lived experience can uncover subjugated knowledge and facilitate transformative action.

Ethnographer location and the politics of translation: researching one’s own group in a host country

2012 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Young Jeong Kim
Keyword(s):  
Host Country ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Research Experience ◽  
Methodological Issues ◽  
South Korean ◽  
Hierarchical Relationship ◽  
The Uk ◽  
The Relationship

As public and academic attention to migration increases, methodological issues related to such research become increasingly important. Although previous efforts of scholars have provided excellent guidance concerning reflexivity and power relationships in research, these discussions have tended to assume a conventional hierarchy positioning and have been limited to the relationship between the researcher and the researched only. Yet, given the shift in the research environment stemming from the increasing mobility of scholars and the increasing interchange of knowledge, as well as emerging auto-ethnographic/auto-biographic research, it is now necessary to challenge these traditional assumptions. This article raises questions concerning the hierarchical relationship between researcher and researched and certain conceptions of the field of ethnography based on my own research experience regarding South Korean migrant women in the UK. Accordingly, with particular emphasis on the researcher’s role as a translator, this article suggests extending our consideration of such relationships to the readership, which constitutes an important, but under-considered, factor in the research process.

Embodied Research in Migration Studies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Vacchelli
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Invasive Approach ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Non Invasive ◽  
Colonial Theory ◽  
Embodied Research ◽  
Definition Of

The definition of data in qualitative research is expanding. This book highlights the value of embodiment as a qualitative research tool and outlines what it means to do embodied research at various points of the research process. It shows how using this non-invasive approach with vulnerable research participants such as migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking women can help service users or research participants to be involved in the co-production of services and in participatory research. Drawing on both feminist and post-colonial theory, the author uses her own research with migrant women in London, focusing specifically on collage making and digital storytelling, whilst also considering other potential tools for practicing embodied research such as yoga, personal diaries, dance, and mindfulness. Situating the concept of ‘embodiment’ on the map of research methodologies, the book combines theoretical groundwork with actual examples of application to think pragmatically about intersectionality through embodiment.

scholarly journals Editorial

Collectivus ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 9-12
Author(s):  
Giovanna Campani ◽  
Teresa Terrón-Caro
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Derechos Humanos ◽  
2030 Agenda ◽  
Human Movements ◽  
The Feminine ◽  
Las Mujeres ◽  
Migratory Movements

La revista Collectivus, con esta nueva publicación del volumen 6, número 2, titulado “Derechos Humanos y Migraciones Femeninas. Una mirada transdisciplinar”, ofrece un espacio monográfico inédito cuyo propósito es profundizar el estudio sobre los movimientos humanos mundiales analizando, especialmente, la realidad y el enfoque femenino.Los 12 artículos que componen este monográfico abordan temas como las relaciones de poder, las dificultades socioeconómicas de la mujer migrante o los desafíos de la Agenda 2030 relativos a los movimientos migratorios, entre otros, siempre desde una perspectiva de género y haciendo hincapié en la vulnerabilidad a la que están expuestas las mujeres migrantes. AbstractCollectivus magazine, with this new publication of volume 6, number 2, entitled “Human Rights and Female Migrations. A transdisciplinary look ”, offers an unprecedented monographic space whose purpose is to deepen the study of world human movements, especially analyzing the reality and the feminine approach.The 12 articles that make up this monograph address issues such as power relations, socio-economic difficulties of migrant women or the challenges of the 2030 Agenda related to migratory movements, among others, always from a gender perspective and emphasizing vulnerability to which migrant women are exposed.

Interviewing academic elites: a discourse analysis of shifting power relations

2020 ◽  
pp. 146879412092420
Author(s):  
Kaushalya Perera
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Analysis ◽  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Contextual Factors ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Cooperative Interaction ◽  
Close Analysis ◽  
Interactional Features

In interviews with privileged individuals such as academics, power relations become particularly salient and explicit. Investigating how shifts in power relations are manifested in the interview allows us to understand the workings of power in academia as well as in the research process. This article presents a close analysis of selected segments of interviews with academics in elite positions to illustrate this. Comparisons between collaborative and non-cooperative interaction in the interview show interactional features that characterise such dynamics. By providing a reflexive and detailed analysis of interview episodes that characterise both cooperation and a refusal to cooperate, the article illustrates the significance of understanding discursive and contextual factors that are relevant to the management of interviews.

Data Security Monitoring of SQL Server Database

2013 ◽  
Vol 679 ◽  
pp. 143-146
Author(s):  
Zhang Hui ◽  
Li Qiang An ◽  
Peng Yue
Keyword(s):  
Data Security ◽  
Information Aggregation ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Database System ◽  
Sql Server ◽  
Important Data ◽  
Security Monitoring ◽  
Daily Work ◽  
Sql Server Database

Database system is information aggregation. So the security of database is very important. This paper describes the research process of tracking SQL server database data tampered. Now we can monitor the important data in daily work. And providing a guarantee for the safety, accuracy of database.

‘It's Different Now’: A Narrative Analysis of Recent Irish Migrants Making Sense of Migration and Comparing Themselves with Previous Waves of Migrants

2015 ◽  
Vol 23 (2) ◽  
pp. 114-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Ryan
Keyword(s):  
Narrative Analysis ◽  
Speech Acts ◽  
Economic Recession ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Young Professionals ◽  
The Past ◽  
Shared Experiences ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Mind Set ◽  
Irish Migrants

The key aim of this paper is to consider how young professionals, who left Ireland since the economic recession, define their migration project – not just individually but also as a shared experience across their generation. Using narrative analysis and the concept of ‘speech acts’, I explore how these young people working in England talk about and make sense of recent Irish migration. In particular, the paper explores the extent to which the participants construct a sense of ‘cohorts’ to articulate their shared experiences and expectations as a ‘group’, ‘wave’ or ‘generation’ of recent migrants and, in so doing, contrast themselves with previous waves of migrants from Ireland. I highlight their emphasis on ‘choice’, ‘opportunities’ and ‘mobility’ in contrast to their image of the older Irish migrants as ‘forced’, disadvantaged and ‘stuck’. I suggest that this is not just an over-simplification of the past, but more importantly represents a device for making sense of the present. The paper also adopts a reflexive approach and situates myself as a researcher and an Irish migrant in the research process. In this way, I consider how my questions and comments may have influenced how narratives were constructed and shared as well as how I may have approached the analysis of the data through a specific socio-temporal mind set.

scholarly journals ‘Now that I know what you’re about’: black feminist reflections on power in the research relationship

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 519-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Hamilton
Keyword(s):  
Black Women ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Power Dynamics ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Black Feminist ◽  
Institutional Ethics ◽  
Research Relationship ◽  
Reflexive Space ◽  
Conducting Research

Feminists have identified reflexivity as a particularly incisive tool for navigating shifting power dynamics, using it to draw attention to how a researcher’s positionality informs every aspect of the research process, from development of the research question to interactions with research participants. In this article, I describe my reflections as a black feminist researcher conducting research with black women. I examine the unexpected ways in which power can manifest during the research process, complicating the theoretical advice offered by institutional ethics board and feminist methodology textbooks. Intersectionality serves as a useful tool to tease out these dilemmas and though it cannot preempt or solve all challenges, it provides reflexive space for exploring such dilemmas and a tool for navigating power in the research process.

scholarly journals A Duet on Engagement: Challenges and Dilemmas of the Researcher of Ethnicities in Poland in the Early 1990s

2020 ◽  
Vol 64 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-118
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Warmińska ◽  
Ewa Michna
Keyword(s):  
Ethnic Minorities ◽  
Power Relations ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Political Context ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Research Experiences ◽  
The Social

This article is a retrospective look at the research experiences of the two authors, who began their study of ethnic issues in Poland at the beginning of the 1990s. They discuss the place and role of the anthropologist in the research process, the social and political context of activities in the field, the researcher’s position in relation to the research subjects, power relations, positioning, and the prevailing forms of discourse. Their aim is to show the challenges and dilemmas facing a researcher of ethnic minorities, with the necessity of choosing a strategy of engagement or distance and the consequences of that choice.

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