Doing Qualitative Research Differently

Hollway, Wendy; Jefferson, Tony

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“…Interpretive approaches, despite the focus on discourse, have not been strongly influenced by post-structuralist, post-colonial or psychosocial theory. The depiction of personhood, then, retains something of the individual rational actor approach that have been challenged elsewhere (Hollway and Jefferson, 2000;Roseneil and Frosh, 2012;Wetherell and Potter 1992). This paper, clearly, cannot engage with this broad canvas of methodological and theoretical work.…”

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Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

Newman

2012

Critical Policy Studies

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This paper explores some of the issues for policy scholars arising from the increasing attention paid to 'emotion' and 'affect' in contemporary social science.One such issue is in the focus placed on detailed ethnographic methods and interpretive forms of analysis, and the problem this raises for drawing out connections to changing regimes of governing and wider shifts in policy and politics.A second lies in the modernist traditions of policy studies, traditions which privilege the rational actor and deliberative subject. This paper uses my own recent research to tease out some issues of method and of theory in conducting a research project that seeks to connect individual working lives to some of the major cultural and social change in Britain over the last 60 years. The paper begins by outlining the project and some of the issues raised in interpreting 'emotion', then goes on to show how I tried to link ethnographic data to wider questions of policy and power. The final section offers two different critical repertoires that have the capacity to link emotions and emotion work to analysis of shifting governmentalities and material conditions of work. Throughout my aim is to enhance the possibility of interdisciplinary conversations by introducing concepts and analytical framings from beyond the traditions of policy studies.

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Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

Newman

2012

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“…This approach, known as free association interviewing, is advocated by Hollway and Jefferson (2000) who argue that, in contrast to structured interviews, free association interviews pursue meaning as their primary objective by creating a space for respondents to share their own sensemaking. This technique proved suitable for generating material about emotion that could then be interpreted from different theoretical perspectives.…”

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Bridging the contradictions of social constructionism and psychoanalysis in a study of workplace emotions in India

Ulus

Gabriel

2016

Culture and Organization

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This article makes a contribution to the study of emotions in organizations by offering a systematic juxtaposition and cross-fertilization of psychoanalytic and social constructionist approaches. These two traditions have found it hard to communicate in the past when addressing organizational emotions. Points of similarity and tension between them are discussed in connection with two critical case studies of female Indian managers discussing their emotions at the workplace. These were obtained during field work in which emotions were studied through narratives generated by a free-association interview approach. Both the emotions described in the narratives themselves and the emotions of the interview encounter were analysed, as resources for a rapprochement of contrasting perspectives on emotion. This rapprochement acknowledges the psychoanalytic emphasis on unconscious dynamics shaping the emotional lives of individuals and groups, while also honouring the social constructionist emphasis on how emotions are influenced by social, cultural and discursive practices.

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“…Relatedly, the field of narrative research seeks to engage analytically with the storied ways in which we make sense of meaning and experiences, within the wider context of our social world and those social others within it [3,4]. As such, narrative research is particularly useful for exploratory research projects, which seek to engage with experience and meaning-making processes of diverse individuals or groups, with such approaches being utilized across a range of subjects in the social sciences, including education [e.g.…”

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“…It may therefore be worth having a back-up interview schedule, with more structured questions for those who -as the interview progresses -appear to lack the impulse, inclination, or ability to narrate. As already noted, narrative research approaches require a change in interview strategy: questions must provide opportunities to elicit storied responses [4]. This introduces the risk that the novice interviewer may experience difficulties, which could result in the data generated not being suitable for the intended analysis or ideation.…”

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“…Before going to meet him, we had developed an interview guide that would act to encourage storied responses, rather than potentially close such responses down (often an issue with standard semi-structured interview guides) [4] -after all, one cannot work with narratives if one does not provide the conditions for their construction in the first instance. This was therefore a crucial step, one which is explored in detail in Section 4.1 below, to prevent the tedium of repetition.…”

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Using Narrative Research and Portraiture to Inform Design Research

Golsteijn

Wright

2013

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2013

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Abstract.Employing an interdisciplinary perspective, this paper addresses how narrative research and portraiture -methods originating from, and commonly used in social sciences -can be beneficial for HCI and design research communities. Narrative research takes stories as a basis for data collection and analysis, while portraiture can be used to create written narratives about interview participants. Drawing on this knowledge, we show how a focus on narrative data, and analysis of such data through portraiture, can be adopted for the specific purpose of enhancing design processes. We hope to encourage design and HCI researchers to consider adopting these methods. By drawing on an illustrative example, we show how these methods served to inform design ideas for digital crafting. Based on our experiences, we present guidelines for using narrative research and portraiture for design research, as well as discussing opportunities and strengths, and limitations and risks.

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Doing Qualitative Research Differently

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Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

Beyond the deliberative subject? Problems of theory, method and critique in the turn to emotion and affect

Bridging the contradictions of social constructionism and psychoanalysis in a study of workplace emotions in India

Using Narrative Research and Portraiture to Inform Design Research

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