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Silences, Neglected Feelings, and Blind-Spots in Research Practice book cover

1st Edition

Silences, Neglected Feelings, and Blind-Spots in Research Practice

Edited By Kathy Davis, Janice Irvine Copyright 2022
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge
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This book addresses wide-ranging dilemmas that social researchers may face as a result of silences, neglected feelings, and blind-spots in their research. In every research endeavour, thoughts, intuitions, biases, feelings or sensations may be left aside as the researcher attempts to come to terms with the complexities of material and figure out what the ‘main issue’ is. Researchers may pay... Read more

Introduction

Kathy Davis and Janice Irvine

Part I: Silences

1. The Silence of Gold: Feelings about Money in Field Relationships

Sealing Cheng

2. Keeping Quiet: Doing Research When You’re Woman, Feminist & Black

madeleine kennedy-macfoy

3. Navigating Race - Expectations Before, During, and After Research

Jonathan R. Wynn

4. Do Lawsuits Silence? Legal Harassment in Corporate Crime Research

Willem De Haan

Part II: Neglected Feelings

5. "Bad Feelings": Reflections on Research, Disciplines, and Critical Methodologies

Ghassan Moussawi and Jyoti Puri

6. The Shamefulness of Boredom: Are Good Researchers Allowed to be Bored?

Kathy Davis

7. In Praise of Suspicion

Oyman Basaran

8. The Botanical Sublime: Thinking and Feeling with Plants

Banu Subramanian

Part III: Blind-spots

9. Coming to Terms with the Present: Difficult Feelings in Post-Shoah Germany

Ina Schaum

10. ‘We Will Sue You If You Dare Publish Our Pictures!’: Discovering Myopia in a Feminist, Participatory Photo-voice Project with Sex Workers in Ethiopia

Ida Sabelis and Lorraine Nencel

11. From Myopia to Clarity: Missed Opportunities and New Directions in an International Research Setting

David Cort

Concluding Conversations

Studying Those Who Hate Us: Fear, Anxiety and Blind-spots in Researching the Right

Janice Irvine and Arlene Stein

Biography

Kathy Davis is Senior Research Fellow in the Sociology Department at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She is the author of Reshaping the Female Body, Dubious Equalities and Embodied Differences, The Making of Our Bodies, Ourselves: How Feminism Travels Across Borders and Dancing Tango: Passionate Encounters in a Globalizing World.

Janice Irvine is Professor of Sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA. She is the author of Marginal People in Deviant Places: Ethnography, Difference, and the Challenge to Scientific Racism; Talk About Sex: The Battles Over Sex Education in the United States, and Disorders of Desire: Sex and Gender in Modern American Sexology.

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