Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting ‘feminist’ research on empowerment in Bangladesh

Nazneen, Sohela; Sultan, Maheen

doi:10.1016/j.wsif.2013.11.008

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“…Built on relationships and privileging the knowledge and experience of participants, Photovoice is as much about the process as it is about the outcome. Arguably, the main purpose of feminist research is the production of “transformative knowledge” (Nanzeen & Sultan, 2014). Germane to this research is the suggestion by Lawston and Meiners (2014, p. 17) that PAR with criminalized women can “support transformative justice” because it refuses to begin from a starting point that frames imprisonment as a result of individual deficiencies.…”

Section: Using Photovoice To Learn From Former Prisoners: Methods and mentioning

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Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Jarldorn

2019

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Historically, research on prisons and prisoners privileges an individualizing framework, when in fact the prison experience is strongly tied to social stratification and collective identities. Informed by the data created for a Photovoice project with former prisoners in South Australia, I contend that contemporary “criminological” knowledge tends to individualize crime through its own privileged view of the world. This individualizing approach seeps into the ways in which criminalized women experience release into the community after a prison sentence, confirming that society does not believe that imprisonment furnishes any form of “rehabilitation.” There can be no separation between capitalism, the prison industrial complex (PIC), and the violence present in carceral settings. This violence, although to a lesser extent than prisoners, is experienced by social workers selling their labor power within the PIC who are co-opted into believing that they can “make a difference.” Yet, social workers, whose codes of ethics are grounded in a framework of human rights, are witness to abuses of human rights on a daily basis within the PIC. Instead of making a difference, they are coerced into silence and roles of social control. The argument proposed here suggests that social workers must radically rethink the place and purpose of prisons by considering them as a violent response by the state to structural social problems that are experienced as politically perpetrated misery and oppression.

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Section: Using Photovoice To Learn From Former Prisoners: Methods and mentioning

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Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Jarldorn

2019

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“…Researchers, especially those using feminist methodologies, acknowledge the effects of identity and power relations in producing knowledge and try to create research tools that limit these power differences (Nazneen and Sultan ; Rose ; Sherif ). By doing so, they attempt to create ‘positional spaces’ (Mullings ) where knowledge can be situated.…”

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“…People have different beliefs, standpoints, ideologies and practices within for instance religious affiliations which point to and stress difference within commonalities that grant access to the group. As female researchers from Bangladesh, Nazneen and Sultan () and their team encountered the field as middle‐class, urban Bengali women with postgraduate degrees while researching women's empowerment in Bangladesh. For them, being a majority Muslim team in a largely religious community lead to a representation of self that created ethical dilemmas for the members of the team.…”

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Insider/Outsider Issues for Development Researchers from the Global South

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2015

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The insider/outsider dichotomy has been debated extensively, arguing for a more nuanced way of thinking about positionality. In this review article, membership roles of those with insider status will be expanded upon to include the ethical and methodological challenges and dilemmas faced by development researchers from the global South. This article argues for more critical thinking about difference or 'sub-identities' that grant the insider status. The discussion highlights experiences of researchers from the global South engaging with difference, shifting identities and expectations. This article concludes with some ref lections on the limits of positionality and a need for more situated ref lexivity.

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“…Ali (2014) defines empowerment as an "ongoing series of negotiations and struggles" (p. 121) in which women are continuously engaged within their social setting. Policymakers and development practitioners concur that empowerment should focus on the power-within of the individual for self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship and not for challenging the power structures (Nazneen & Sultan, 2014). In Carr's (2003) framework, this corresponds to the empowerment process at the individual level and then extends to the group with its inherent social dynamics.…”

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“…Because Wall Street is a specific type of culture of men (Epprecht, 2013), this social construct often becomes ingrained in financial professionals', mostly young adults, perceptions of work ethos and success, "a deeply buried structure that shapes Wall Street men's and women's dispositions to act in such a way that they end up accepting and most often reproducing the dominant gendered, classed, and raced system of the market place" (Fisher, 2012, p. 5). In the midst of the old-boy's network, women found themselves excluded from activities and events, and this exclusion may contribute to the lack of opportunities for women to advance into leadership positions (Hoyt, 2012;Fisher, 2012;Nazneen & Sultan, 2014;Scott & Brown, 2006;Roth, 2007). Moreover, studies that examined how women leaders perceived positive social identity and identity conflict within male-dominated cultures are limited (Al-Lamky, 2007;Karelaia & Guillen, 2014;Rudman, et al, 2012).…”

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From the apron to the cape : examining the experiences of women who rise to leadership positions on Wall Street

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Historically, women in leadership positions at top Wall Street firms had to overcome much adversity to advance within a predominantly male-dominated culture. Wall Street, also known as the old boy's club, principally catered to White males. Women that tried to operate within this old boy's network were particularly harassed and discriminated against. Beginning around the late 1970s and early 1980s, women who entered top Wall Street firms found positions as receptionists, secretaries, assistants, and low-level administrators. As women struggled to advance up the corporate ladder, they were confronted by much resistance from the hierarchical male-dominated culture. Some women quit and filed lawsuits, while the women who stayed were determined to overcome gender-bias to rise to leadership positions. Their perceptions and understanding of their organizational setting generated new ideas of women in leadership; they shared knowledge, told their stories, and inspired one another. This research study examined the experiences women in the financial industry encountered on their pathways to becoming leaders in a male-dominated culture. This dissertation presents a narrative study on a group of women in leadership positions within the financial industry conversing about their pathways into leadership, learning about their motivating factors, and discovering how they became change agents in leadership.

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Positionality and transformative knowledge in conducting ‘feminist’ research on empowerment in Bangladesh

Cited by 9 publications

References 5 publications

Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Radically Rethinking Social Work in the Criminal (in)Justice System in Australia

Insider/Outsider Issues for Development Researchers from the Global South

From the apron to the cape : examining the experiences of women who rise to leadership positions on Wall Street

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