“Learn to Value Your Shadow!” An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork

Leibing, Annette; McLean, Athena

doi:10.1002/9780470692455.ch

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“…I was reluctant, for example, to discuss my academic background and interests (wider than the research focus and background required for ethical disclosure) during work at the call centre, whilst at the same time being hesitant to talk about my experience of being a CSR outside of the call centre. Despite this artificial separation, on occasion these two separate worlds inevitably collided and eventually blurred (Leibing and Mclean, 2007). One example of such a collision was the formal institutionalised bureaucracy of conducting research as a PhD student and, in particular, the University's Ethics committee and its requirement that all fieldwork be submitted for scrutiny to an ethics review board as part of the annual review process.…”

Section: Understanding Managerial Misunderstandingmentioning

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Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research

Brannan

2011

IJWOE

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Abstract:Despite the recent 'reflexive turn' in fieldwork-based sociology, and its organisational variants, empirical research often seems to ignore the role of the researcher's emotion in the collection of data and the creation of textual representations. The paper offers a retrospective autoethnographic account to argue that the separation of the physical act of research from its emotional experience is unsustainable. The paper offers a critique of the institutional framework of PhD study, which often seems to perpetuate a certain inattention to issues of emotionality within the research context, and argues the emotional experiences are key fieldwork experiences and an essential part of ethnographic study.Keywords: emotions in research; retrospective/auto-ethnography; reflexivity; ethics. Biographical notes: Matthew J. Brannan is a Senior Lecturer in Management at Keele Management School, Keele University and Director of International Partnerships. Previously, he held a post at the Centre for Labour Market Studies at the University of Leicester and was awarded a PhD from Wolverhampton University for his work on Call Centres and Employee Resistance. His current work focuses on the growth of the Service Sector and the contemporary experience of work using Ethnographic Techniques to gain an immersive insight to the world of work. He has written about the use of Role Play in Call Centre Recruitment and Selection processes, the engagement of worker's sexuality in customer service environments, the career path of female junior Managers and Employee Branding.

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Section: Understanding Managerial Misunderstandingmentioning

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Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research

Brannan

2011

IJWOE

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“…The way we perceive ourselves often differs from how participants perceive us (Leibing & McLean, 2007). Mapping our social identities can be helpful to parse out this complexity and better understand how we may present ourselves as researchers and how we may be perceived by participants.…”

Section: Reflection On the Social Identity Map From The Classroom Andmentioning

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Social Identity Map: A Reflexivity Tool for Practicing Explicit Positionality in Critical Qualitative Research

Jacobson

Mustafa

2019

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

213

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The way that we as researchers view and interpret our social worlds is impacted by where, when, and how we are socially located and in what society. The position from which we see the world around us impacts our research interests, how we approach the research and participants, the questions we ask, and how we interpret the data. In this article, we argue that it is not a straightforward or easy task to conceptualize and practice positionality. We have developed a Social Identity Map that researchers can use to explicitly identify and reflect on their social identity to address the difficulty that many novice critical qualitative researchers experience when trying to conceptualize their social identities and positionality. The Social Identity Map is not meant to be used as a rigid tool but rather as a flexible starting point to guide researchers to reflect and be reflexive about their social location. The map involves three tiers: the identification of social identities (Tier 1), how these positions impact our life (Tier 2), and details that may be tied to the particularities of our social identity (Tier 3). With the use of this map as a guide, we aim for researchers to be able to better identify and understand their social locations and how they may pose challenges and aspects of ease within the qualitative research process. Being explicit about our social identities allows us (as researchers) to produce reflexive research and give our readers the tools to recognize how we produced the data. Being reflexive about our social identities, particularly in comparison to the social position of our participants, helps us better understand the power relations imbued in our research, further providing an opportunity to be reflexive about how to address this in a responsible and respectful way.

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“…Some take the position that revelations should only occur only if they are relevant. Leibing and McLean (2007) call for "a measured economy of disclosure" and suggest "sharing only what we must about our personal lives (while at the same time not holding back what needs to be examined) for the purposes of advancing knowledge for ourselves, our interlocutors, and our readers" (p. 13). Altork (1995), on the other hand, states:…”

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Attraction in the Field

Grauerholz

Barringer

Colyer

et al. 2013

Qualitative Inquiry

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Physical or sexual attraction plays an important role in shaping a wide range of relationships and in myriad ways. Our primary interest here is in how attraction shapes the qualitative research experience. Close examination of popular sociological ethnographies found that attractiveness is used as a descriptor, and almost always in a distancing fashion, but never considered in a reflexive manner. We explore implications of this silence surrounding attraction and urge greater candidness among sociologists conducting field research and teachers of qualitative methods.Liz Grauerholz is a professor of sociology at the University of Central Florida (UCF). Her main areas are gender, consumption, and scholarship of teaching and learning. She regularly teaches courses on qualitative methods, gender, and teaching sociology.

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“Learn to Value Your Shadow!” An Introduction to the Margins of Fieldwork

Cited by 16 publications

References 22 publications

Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research

Researching emotions and the emotions of researching: the strange case of Alexithymia in reflexive research

Social Identity Map: A Reflexivity Tool for Practicing Explicit Positionality in Critical Qualitative Research

Attraction in the Field

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