Chapter 15: Blind Spots and Moments of Estrangement: Subjectivity, Class and Education in British ‘Autobiographical Histories’

Loughran, Tracey

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“…My journey through education as a working-class woman echoes the experiences of other female, working-class academics (see, for example, Reay, 1997; Walkerdine et al, 2001). Despite being a ‘good example’ of social mobility, I knew that this came at the cost of an unsettling and difficult emotional (and geographical) dislocation (Lawler, 1999; Loughran, 2018). The research therefore set out to explore how compelling dominant narratives of social mobility are amongst working-class families.…”

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Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research

Folkes

2022

Qualitative Research

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Within qualitative research, much can be learned from the influence of researcher positionality on the research process. Reflecting upon ethnographic fieldwork undertaken for a doctoral study, this paper explores how researcher positionality not only shapes research motivations but also situates the researcher and the ‘researched’, impacting how data is created and interpreted. There is a long history of engaging with positionality in qualitative research, however, oftentimes this engagement is purely descriptive, providing a ‘shopping list’ of characteristics and stating if these are shared or not with participants. It is important for engagement with reflexivity to go beyond providing a ‘shopping list’ of positionality statements to develop deeper discussions about the fluidity of positionality across the research process. Using the previously established concept of ‘kitchen table reflexivity’, I reflect on how talk allows researchers to outline shifts and adaptability in positionality as research progresses. I expand this concept to argue that kitchen table reflexivity can occur in conversations during fieldwork with participants, utilising a range of in/visible tools at the researcher’s disposal. For example, the spaces between fieldwork encounters, the ‘waiting field’, is often where observations and informal discussions with participants take place. Using fieldnotes and interview data, this paper outlines how positionality fluctuates and interweaves with the theoretical, methodological, and analytical approach taken. The paper concludes by restating the importance of meaningful engagement with positionality throughout qualitative research, in order to avoid static and hollow positionality statements.

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Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research

Folkes

2022

Qualitative Research

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“…These capacities, reflecting the long-standing legacy of rhetorical education in the contemporary academy, are a form of cultural capital particularly associated with middle-class private school education (Minnix, 2018). University culture can also bring expectations around, among other things, appropriate dress and speech forms (including in relation to regional accents and dialect forms), knowledge of and access to certain popular cultures (books read, music listened to, films watched), shared conventional beliefs and similar educational pathways and trajectories (Michell, Wilson and Archer, 2015;Wayne and Yao, 2016;Loughran, 2018; also, discussion arising from Barton on Twitter, 24 March 2021; O'Shea on Twitter, 28 April 2021). It involves being able to express the right emotion, about the right things, in the right context, or at least being able to 'fake' it.…”

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Academic Emotions

Barclay

2021

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The University is an institution that disciplines the academic self. As such it produces both a particular emotional culture and, at times, the emotional suffering of those who find such disciplinary practices discomforting. Drawing on a rich array of writing about the modern academy by contemporary academics, this Element explores the emotional dynamics of the academy as a disciplining institution, the production of the academic self, and the role of emotion in negotiating power in the ivory tower. Using methodologies from the History of Emotion, it seeks to further our understanding of the relationship between the institution, emotion and the self.

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‘Must Try Harder’: Anxiety, Self-Shaping and Structures of Feeling, Then and Now

Loughran

2019

Clever Girls

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Chapter 15: Blind Spots and Moments of Estrangement: Subjectivity, Class and Education in British ‘Autobiographical Histories’

Cited by 3 publications

References 15 publications

Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research

Moving beyond ‘shopping list’ positionality: Using kitchen table reflexivity and in/visible tools to develop reflexive qualitative research

Academic Emotions

‘Must Try Harder’: Anxiety, Self-Shaping and Structures of Feeling, Then and Now

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