Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: ethical and analytical dilemmas

Parr, Sadie

doi:10.1080/13645579.2013.868572

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“…The interviewer followed feminist principles about conveying understanding and acceptance while being an attentive listener, in order to facilitate openness concerning a private and personal subject (Parr, 2013). At the time of the interviews the author herself was white, heterosexual, aged 35 and childless.…”

Section: The Interviewsmentioning

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Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation

Peterson

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation

Peterson

2015

Women's Studies International Forum

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“…The challenge for researchers adopting such a position, is to move beyond the study of everyday social conversations and interactions so they can examine the underlying mechanisms that create social circumstances in the first place (May, 2001: 12;Parr, 2015).…”

Section: The Fallibility Of Critical Realismmentioning

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Rekindling Community Education in Neoliberal Times

Fitzsimons

2017

Community Education and Neoliberalism

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“…The empirical level or reality is then where events are observed, experienced and measured. Outcomes of these causal mechanisms, however, are not pre-determined, but rather, exist within specific geographical and contextual triggers (Parr, 2015). The task for social scientists is to consider the generative mechanisms that produce social phenomena, outcomes and experiences in the everyday world (Clegg, 2006;Easton, 2010), going beyond given data to consider interpretations of meanings (Danermark et al, 2005).…”

Section: Critical Realismmentioning

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“…Theories and knowledge claims produced from social research are imperfect and based on theory (Easton, 2010), and are not a direct representation of reality (Carolan, 2005a). Rather, knowledge is historically and culturally situated, and assessable and reassessable over time based on the application of novel theories (Parr, 2015). Social research is itself a social activity (Olsen, 2004: 147).…”

Section: Critical Realismmentioning

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“…Social phenomena are the result of "interaction between social structures, mechanism and human agency" in an open system (McEvoy & Richards, 2006: 70), which includes openness between the social and the natural (Carolan, 2005a). Within this model of linked, stratified realities (Carolan, 2005a;New, 2005), social phenomena are not real in the material sense, but real in that they possess causal powers (Parr, 2015), and are situated alongside material realities, a "complex web of biological, chemical and physical interactions" (Carolan, 2005a: 1). As Carolan (2005b: 401) writes, "as biophysical phenomena are concomitantly social, so too are social phenomena concomitantly biophysical".…”

Section: Critical Realismmentioning

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Climate change adaptation in Southwest Bangladesh: vulnerability and gender inequality

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The threat of climate change looms large for Bangladesh, located between the Ganges Delta and the Bay of Bengal. Climate change is expected to impact the lives and livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people in Bangladesh, particularly those who live in coastal areas and are poor or disadvantaged. Women are considered to be particularly vulnerable as a result of gendered roles, responsibilities and limited entitlements. While there is a growing body of work regarding the ways in which gender, class, and livelihoods contribute to climate change vulnerability in Bangladesh, there is little scholarship examining adaptation in terms of its capacity to address the social and political aspects of vulnerability. In addition, much gender and climate change research suffers from static representations of women and gender relations.To address these gaps in the literature, this thesis uses adaptive capacity vulnerability theory, in conjunction with feminist political ecology, to examine the transformative capacity of adaptation initiatives in the Bagerhat region of Southwest of Bangladesh. By adopting a bottom-up approach to social enquiry, this thesis investigates, 1) The nature and community experiences of environmental and climate changes in the region; 2) The social factors that mediate experiences of environmental and climate change, including gender, class and governance; and 3) The ways in which adaptation initiatives interact with underlying causes of vulnerability, with a focus gender.Employing an embedded case study approach and utilising a range of participatory methods, this thesis makes four key findings. Firstly, climate change in Southwest Bangladesh is situated within local political, economic and ecological contexts. The impacts of climate change were found to be 'magnifying' a range of pre-existing environmental challenges that have occurred as a result of political and economic interventions in agriculture in the Southwest. Secondly, women's experiences of, and responses to, environmental change were being shaped by gendered roles, responsibilities and expectations. Gender in this context was undergoing changes as a result of material needs, and women's own agentic desires to help their communities. However, these shifts were having little impact on women's broader capabilities and entitlements. Thirdly, the adaptation initiatives observed were doing little to enhance community capacities in climate change adaptation, and were failing to respond to macro political and economic issues. Most adaptation initiatives, including small-scale improvements to farming and livelihoods, had largely failed to address poverty, gender inequality or the underlying causes of environmental change. Rather, these iii initiatives were assigning obligations to communities, allowing governments to abdicate their responsibilities. Finally, what these findings suggest is that in order to initiate adaptation measures that are sustainable and socially just, there is a need for an approach that is inclusive and transform...

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Integrating critical realist and feminist methodologies: ethical and analytical dilemmas

Cited by 51 publications

References 34 publications

Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation

Fifty shades of freedom. Voluntary childlessness as women's ultimate liberation

Rekindling Community Education in Neoliberal Times

Climate change adaptation in Southwest Bangladesh: vulnerability and gender inequality

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