Thinking about race and gender in conflict research

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Althea-Maria Rivas
Keyword(s):  
Research Process ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Research Praxis ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Conflict Research

This vignette explore the ways in which race and gender can influence the research process, the experience of the researcher, and the perceptions of the research participants and communities through short narratives on fieldwork conducted in Afghanistan and Burundi. It ends with a few reflections on the need for more discussion within academic circles about intersectionality and research praxis.

scholarly journals Starting Where You Are: How Race Can Constrain Researchers within the Research Setting

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamesha Spates ◽  
Wangari Gichiru
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Black Women ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Approaches To Teaching ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Research And Teaching ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Personal Reflections

What challenges can race and gender present for researchers of color? As Black women, we draw on personal reflections to look back at our graduate training and its influence on how we conducted ourselves in the field as graduate students and now as researchers in the academy. We particularly consider how mainstream pedagogical approaches to teaching qualitative methods might work to marginalize researchers of color throughout the qualitative research process. We lay out these complexities, not necessarily to offer solutions but rather to allow others in similar situations to think about their own journey as we collectively move qualitative research and teaching to new heights. We conclude this article with a short discussion of the direct implications for teaching and doing qualitative research.

scholarly journals Intervention, autonomy and power in polarised societies

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Corinna Jentzsch
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Research Needs ◽  
Community Mobilisation ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
Conflict Research

The chapter builds on fieldwork conducted in rural Mozambique on community mobilisation against insurgent violence during the country’s civil war (1976-1992) to reflect upon some of the unintended consequences of fieldwork in polarised societies. It focuses on the ways in which the autonomy of both the researcher and the researched may be affected during the research process. In analysing the simultaneous empowerment and disempowerment of research participants, the chapter discusses the challenges raised around issues of power and neutrality during fieldwork and suggests that conflict research needs to be understood as a form of intervention in local affairs.

‘It's Easier that you're a Girl and that you're Asian’: Interactions of ‘Race’ and Gender between Researchers and Participants

2002 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Louise Archer
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Discussion Group ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Feminist Research ◽  
White Female ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Group Data ◽  
Female Author ◽  
And Gender

This article is concerned with the ways in which ‘race’ and gender interact between interviewers and participants within the research process and the implications of differences/similarities between researcher and participants for feminist research and analysis. The paper discusses issues of power and representation within a research project conducted by the white female author and two Asian female interviewers with 64 British Muslim young men and women. Based on analysis of discussion group data, it is argued that ‘race’ and gender interact between researchers and participants in highly complex and unpredictable ways to produce particular accounts, but comparative analysis of accounts produced with different interviewers can help reveal ‘hidden’ structures of power within the texts.

Consciousness in Transition: A Case Study of Social Identity Formation in KwaZulu-Natal Study Description and Methodology

2000 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 118-126
Author(s):  
T Marcus ◽  
D Manicom
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Compulsory Education ◽  
Research Programme ◽  
Research Process ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Acting Out ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Rural And Urban ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact

The aim of this article is to describe the Class Race and Gender (CRG) Research Programme. The CRG research programme aims to explore the development of consciousness in South Africa, to understand how we come to be the black and white, rural and urban, rich and poor and men and women who make up our stratified and differentiated society and to identify and assess the impact of changes over time. This complex problem is being investigated through a study of class, race and gender identity formation in the first generation of children entering the new, compulsory education system. This article specifically tries to document the research process; its methodology and the instruments which were used and developed in order to engage with the issues under investigation. The article also tries to explain the rationale informing the choice of the sample and methods and describes how these research methods were implemented. Research with people is always interactive and reflexive, even if the researchers do not concern themselves with what the research might contribute to respondents. Yet, in questions there are ideas and information which people think about and learn from. Research is or can be a learning process for respondents. For respondents (and researchers) there is a continual tension between the limits of research (finding out) and the possibilities of intervention (acting out).

scholarly journals Whiteness in the Qualitative Research Setting: Critical Skepticism, Radical Reflexivity and Anti-racist Feminism

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Katerina Deliovsky
Keyword(s):  
Impression Management ◽  
White Women ◽  
Data Gathering ◽  
Social Desirability Bias ◽  
Mutual Trust ◽  
Research Setting ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Research Participants ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Racially Mixed

This essay critically reflects on challenges and dilemmas I encountered when interviewing white women about their experiences with gender, racialization, and practices of whiteness. These challenges and dilemmas in the research setting relate to the researcher-participant relationship and, in particular, participants’ use of 1) a “rhetorical ethic,” in which their social justice narratives were contradicted by demonstrations of their own racist ideologies; and 2) how whiteness and femininity were sites of power and resources for “social desirability bias” and impression management in response to my positionality as a white woman with a Black spouse and two racially mixed children. Additionally, this essay grapples with the emotionally difficult journey of being a researcher with the feminist commitment of “giving voice” to women by developing a bond of mutual trust, while at the same time feeling compelled to conceal oneself in search of “honest” responses from the research participants. This reflection illuminates how a/symmetries of power between researcher and the researched are inscribed with race and gender dynamics that are not always discernible, yet have a tremendous influence on data gathering. These dynamics require recognizing the agency of the research participants to shape what are considered and interpreted as data. These dynamics also require treating the data with “critical skepticism” and subjecting the participants’ responses to a “radical reflexivity” rooted in understanding how the larger social, political and historical “facts of whiteness” inform the microcosm of the researcher-participant relationship.

Referral Patterns for Youths Identified at Risk for Suicide by Trained Gatekeepers

Crisis ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 113-119 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael S. Rodi ◽  
Lucas Godoy Garraza ◽  
Christine Walrath ◽  
Robert L. Stephens ◽  
D. Susanne Condron ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Suicide Prevention ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Service Access ◽  
Referral Patterns ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Lee Smith ◽  
Prevention Behavior ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
And Gender ◽  
To Receive

Background: In order to better understand the posttraining suicide prevention behavior of gatekeeper trainees, the present article examines the referral and service receipt patterns among gatekeeper-identified youths. Methods: Data for this study were drawn from 26 Garrett Lee Smith grantees funded between October 2005 and October 2009 who submitted data about the number, characteristics, and service access of identified youths. Results: The demographic characteristics of identified youths are not related to referral type or receipt. Furthermore, referral setting does not seem to be predictive of the type of referral. Demographic as well as other (nonrisk) characteristics of the youths are not key variables in determining identification or service receipt. Limitations: These data are not necessarily representative of all youths identified by gatekeepers represented in the dataset. The prevalence of risk among all members of the communities from which these data are drawn is unknown. Furthermore, these data likely disproportionately represent gatekeepers associated with systems that effectively track gatekeepers and youths. Conclusions: Gatekeepers appear to be identifying youth across settings, and those youths are being referred for services without regard for race and gender or the settings in which they are identified. Furthermore, youths that may be at highest risk may be more likely to receive those services.

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