Object's details: Uncloaking the Researcher: Boundaries in Qualitative Research

Provider:Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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Title:
Uncloaking the Researcher: Boundaries in Qualitative Research
Creator:
Thurairajah, Kalyani
Contributor:
MacEwan University, Canada;
Kalyani Thurairajah is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at MacEwan University. Her research is focused on questions pertaining to national identities among immigrants, and the process through which they negotiate their loyalties between their countries of origin and countries of settlement. She is also interested in how narratives of multiculturalism and racism influence the development and maintenance of national identities.;
thurairajahk@macewan.ca
Description:
Qualitative researchers are expected to engage in reflexivity, whereby they consider the impact of their own social locations and biases on the research process. Part of this practice involves the consideration of boundaries between the researcher and the participant, including the extent to which the researcher may be considered an insider or an outsider with respect to the area of study. This article explores the three different processes by which boundaries are made and deconstructed, and the ethical complexities of this boundary making/(un)making process. This paper examines the strengths and limitations of three specific scenarios: 1) when the researcher is fully cloaked and hiding their positionalities; 2) when there is strategic undressing to reveal some positionalities; 3) when there is no cloak, and all positionalities are shared or revealed. This paper argues that it is insufficient to be reflexive about boundaries through acknowledgement, and instead advocates reflexivity that directly examines the processes by which social locations are shared and hidden during the research process.
Object availability:
free access
Rights:
This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.;
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Date:
2019.06.18;
2019
Type:
Article
Language:
English
Format:
application/pdf
Publisher:
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego
Relation:
Qualitative Sociology Review; 1;
15
Subject:
Reflexivity;
Qualitative Research;
Social Locations;
Positionalities;
Ethics;
Insider/Outsider
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/11089/28860 ;
1733-8077;
10.18778/1733-8077.15.1.06
Data provider:
Repozytorium Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

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