1st Edition
The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research Addressing Moments of Discomfort
Preface
The Critical Methodologies Collective
Acknowledgements
Introduction
The Critical Methodologies Collective
1. Becoming ‘Unstuck’ Among Positionalities, Terms and Disciplines Via Conversation (With Myself): Exploring Potentials for Affective Reflexivity in Critical Intersex Studies
Tove Lundberg
2. ‘To Say No Wasn’t Something We Could Do’: Reflexive Accounts and Negotiations of the Ethical Practice of Informed Consent During the Research Process and Beyond
Johanna Sixtensson
3. Creating Knowledge through Community Theatre: No Border Musical and the Making of Representations
Emma Söderman
4. Waiting: The Shrouded Backbone of Ethnographic Research
Pankhuri Agarwal
5. Middle-Classness: Research Object and Fieldwork Performance
Katrine Scott
6. Dilemmas of Representation in a Study of Social Workers: Analyzing Non-Evident Forms of Social Transformation
Vanna Nordling
7. The Ethics of Renaming: On Challenges and Dilemmas of Anonymization in a Study of Anti-Muslim Racism
Marta Kolankiewicz
8. Caring Encounters in Ethnographic Research: Unlearning Distance and Learning Sharing
Eda Hatice Farsakoglu and Pouran Djampour
Afterword
Professor Diana Mulinari
Epilogue: What the Collective has Meant to Us
The Critical Methodologies Collective
Biography
The Critical Methodologies Collective consists of nine feminist researchers early in their careers with a shared interest in, and discomfort of, doing critical research. The members come from varied social, political and academic backgrounds, with roots and routes in Denmark, Finland, India, Iran, Poland, Sweden, Turkey and the UK.
"Formed from slow critical dialogue and intellectual love, The Critical Methodology Collective offer us a profound gift. Not so much prescriptive guidance but rather the keen attentiveness, close description and patient vulnerability that comes from years of close examination of nine feminist research projects. An extraordinary read, an extraordinary feat." -- Yasmin Gunaratnam, Sociology Department, Goldsmiths College, UK
"This pathbreaking book is a must read for scholars and activists, PhD students, professors and NGO researchers. It challenges assumptions, demanding we reflect on power, privilege and political practice in research relationships. You will think and do research differently after reading it." -- Bridget Anderson, Professor of Migration, Mobilities and Citizenship, University of Bristol, UK
"This book stands out in form and content. It is written by a collective of young feminist researchers, and addresses questions central to the social sciences. Sharing a sense of discomfort, the authors raise important – and often ignored – ethical issues in qualitative research. It is a book that all serious scholars should read." -- Johanna Esseveld, Professor Emerita, Department of Sociology, Lund University, Sweden
