Listening to difficult stories: Listening as a research methodology

Ratnam, Charishma

doi:10.1016/j.emospa.2019.03.003

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“…In this paper, I reflected on how I resituated my researcher subjectivities to more precisely consider my privilege and responsibility as a feminist researcher (see also Sultana, this collection). I came to understand my feminist researcher subjectivities in the space of Intag, not solely as confronting power in public spaces, but also, and perhaps more meaningfully, as listening and caring in more private spaces (Lawson, 2007;Ratnam, 2019). I examined how my researcher subjectivities included emotional solidarity with residents' pursuit of progressive politics, one that hinged on revealing patriarchal, masculine state relations.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork

Zalik

Mollett

Sultana

et al. 2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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This multi-authored collection of papers examines the complex realities of research on natural resource industries, including the messy entanglements of extraction, materiality, and everyday social life this research entails. Of central importance to the contributors is how scholars confront fieldwork challenges ethically, methodologically, and corporeally. The collection has two key objectives. First, it expands our understanding of extractive industry by bringing together work on resources conventionally understood as extractive (e.g. oil and minerals) alongside resource-intensive industries not typically examined through an extractive lens, for instance fisheries, agricultural monocultures, water, and tourism. As such, it considers the historical and current conditions that facilitate the extraction of resources in parallel, cyclical, and reproducing forms. Second, the collection examines scholarly positionalities, methodologies, and dilemmas that arise when studying nature-intensive industries, including the extractive dimensions associated with social research itself. Together, the pieces argue that research concerning extractive industries entails multiple scholarly positions—positions problematically inflected with colonialism and always shaped by power relations. Contributors to the section draw largely from feminist, postcolonial, anti-racist, and historical materialist insights to frame and problematize the corporeal and representational concerns arising from their scholarship on nature-intensive industries, including personal dilemmas that they have encountered in their work. Overall, the collection is driven by the realization that research, and the analyses it entails, may serve as a tool for emancipatory intervention yet also reproduce inequality. The futures of the people and ecosystems at the center of our studies impel constant reflection so that our work, and that of the next generation of scholars, may offer critical analysis that contributes to transforming—rather than reinforcing—oppressive relations associated with extractive sectors and industries.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…I was often invited into homes where women cared for their households. In my fieldnotes I documented these private conversations, where my role was to listen (Ratnam, 2019). I came to realize that these were spaces where politics were also negotiated.…”

Section: Reclaiming and Resituating Feminist Subjectivitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork

Zalik

Mollett

Sultana

et al. 2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…It aims to help researchers consider the potential impact of children’s nature and contexts on their ethical guidelines and exit strategies. It serves to create an open platform for researchers to discuss the unexpected outcomes of relationships built on the notion of care and active listening (Ratnam, 2019).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Protecting Refugee Students’ Wellbeing After Research

Erden-Başaran

2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This study examines how Syrian refugee children’s participation in an ethnographic study affected their well-being, using the premises of attachment theory and listening as care. Three Syrian children, aged 10–12 in Turkish public schools, participated in this study. The data of this study were generated by combining these children’s interviews and observations in 2016 and new interviews in 2018. This study argues that the researcher may be the closest option for these children to develop a long and secure relationship because their teachers and the school community provided misguided messages about the researcher’s role in the school and these children’s expectations from the researcher. Given this situation, the findings of this study suggest that researchers should allocate time after research to understand how their presence affects refugee children and prepare culturally relevant and individualized exit strategies to avoid harming them.

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“…Here, Ratnam [22] reminds us also to listen to ourselves-knowledge emerges "Saturation" in research with a hard-to-reach participant pool Sutherland [23] employs saturation to guide her research with a hard-to-reach populationhobby farmers in a particular parish in Scotland, UK. Sutherland was interested in the land management practices of small, non-commercial land holders, a group that can be quite difficult to reach and involve in social research.…”

Section: In-depth Interviewsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…It is imperative that researchers are sensitive to power and interpersonal dynamics and the impact they can have both on the data generated and interview participants' experience of the interview process. Further, although it is relatively common for researchers, and for institutional ethics procedures, to consider the potential harm or distress a participant might experience as a result of an interview, insufficient attention is paid to the emotional and psychological impact conducting interviews may have on the interviewer [22]. It is quite possible for the researcher to find themselves affected by the interview, in ways that also might be distressing, uncomfortable, and/or traumatic.…”

Section: Interviewing and Harmmentioning

confidence: 99%

In-Depth Interviewing

Osborne

Grant-Smith

2021

Methods in Urban Analysis

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This chapter explores in-depth interviewing, a widely used method in qualitative research aimed at building a depth of understanding, rather than factual or abstract information. We give a brief account of structured interviews, but these have more in common with surveys and questionnaires than in-depth interviewing. Semi-structured interviews are interviews that follow a set of questions, allowing some flexibility in how questions are asked, and provide the researcher with the opportunity to ask clarifying and follow-up questions. Unstructured interviews are more flexible and open-ended. As such, they can be quite unpredictable and varied and are well suited to exploratory research and other research interested in meaning and experiences. There is a range of ethical considerations when using this method, including confidentiality establishing clear and reasonable expectations and offering appropriate reciprocity to research participants, and the potential of this method to cause harm, to both researcher and participants. In-depth interviewing is a powerful but demanding method for urban research; it is resource intensive and requires a lot of skills on the part of the researcher to design effective and ethical protocols and to generate meaning from complex, often messy, data.

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Listening to difficult stories: Listening as a research methodology

Cited by 46 publications

References 44 publications

Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork

Extraction, entanglements, and (im)materialities: Reflections on the methods and methodologies of natural resource industries fieldwork

Protecting Refugee Students’ Wellbeing After Research

In-Depth Interviewing

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