Questioning identities/shifting identities: the impact of researching sex and gender on a researcher’s LGBT+ identity

Nelson, Rosie

doi:10.1177/1468794120914522

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“…The struggles in the production of knowledge about LGBTQI accountants had the potential to conflate with our emotional journeys and potential vulnerability as LGBTQIidentifying researchers. We thus engaged in a reflexive journey which further helped to explore the narrative around being and working as LGBTQI (Nelson, 2020). This connection with the participants' stories also led to retraumatisation of personal experiences and deep connection.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

An Exploration of Queer Spaces and Worldviews in the Accounting Profession.

McGuigan¹

2020

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This paper explores LGBTQI accountants' worldviews to rethink the relationship between agency and structure for LGBTQI accountants. Drawing on queer theory and Lefebvre sociological approach to space, we dismantle the perceived apparent high level of normativity and the heteronormative dominating style in accounting firms by unravelling queer spaces. LGBTQI accountants' life experiences shape the way they live, perceive and conceive the world. Their views contribute to questioning the current system of decisions, generating opportunities for counterhegemonic and innovative processes. Our findings, thus, suggest that gender appropriation of alternative views, such as queer ones, has contributed for a long time to the idea of a unique heteronormative space within accounting firms. Finally, we provide evidence that accounting can also paradoxically create comfort to LGBTQI accountants by generating an apparent sense of order, expanding the spaces of accounting as a lived experience.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 98%

An Exploration of Queer Spaces and Worldviews in the Accounting Profession.

McGuigan¹

2020

Preprint

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“…This emotional context can be even more acute when working with vulnerable and marginalised communities, where pain creates layers of intensity and ‘affective immersion’ (Henriksen and Schliehe, 2020: 842; Nelson, 2020; Federman et al, 2016). This context requires researchers to be highly present and empathic, ‘to pick up on slight changes in tonality, bodily unrest, (in) assertive voices, the materiality of the room, sounds, disruptions’ (Henriksen and Schliehe, 2020: 842).…”

Section: What To Do About How We Feelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants

Butcher

2022

Progress in Human Geography

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This report highlights the need for distinct approaches in qualitative research when working with the pain of marginalised and vulnerable communities. Firstly, it argues for a need to incorporate ‘emotionally engaged research’ that acknowledges complicated entanglements between researchers and those we work with, particularly when conditions of pain are present. Secondly, it traces work in sensitive contexts to highlight effective strategies that aim to ‘do no harm’ and may also become a catalyst for easing pain. Thirdly, it identifies barriers to emotionally engaged work including the need to rethink training and support for researchers.

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“…Participant observers are behaving as part of communities in which they are not authentic members and spending significant time with individuals who by definition are research participants, not friends. Or they may be working in their own communities and navigating the difficult insider dynamics of conducting research on those who are their friends and acquaintances in their personal lives (Guevarra 2006;Nelson 2020;Owton and Allen-Collinson 2014;Taylor 2011). Ethnographers are often the keepers of sensitive and sometimes traumatic stories, and may witness firsthand traumatic or emotionally distressing events (Bahn and Weatherill 2013;Campbell 2002;Hedican 2006;Pieke 1995;Vanderstaay 2005).…”

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“…These boundaries can include physical limits on where a researcher will meet with participants (i.e., keeping an office door cracked, or being aware of increased risk in certain private locations) and symbolic borders such as imagining an emotional wall erected to ensure the investigator is not taking on participants’ emotional states. Boundaries serve to clarify the professional relationship between the investigator and participant and to reduce risks of vicarious trauma after hearing disturbing stories (Bergman Blix and Wettergren 2015; Connolly and Reilly 2007; Johnson and Clarke 2003; Keyel 2021[2020]; Kiyimba and O’Reilly 2016; Nelson 2020; Shaw et al 2020). Furthermore, maintaining boundaries between their personal and professional lives can help investigators avoid burnout and emotional enmeshment with participants.…”

Section: Competencies For Trauma and Justice-informed Ethnographymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Furthermore, maintaining boundaries between their personal and professional lives can help investigators avoid burnout and emotional enmeshment with participants. It is important that ethnographers cultivate community and social lives outside of the field site to fill their needs for friendship and support, and engage in personal self-care routines to keep them physically, emotionally, and spiritually nourished and rejuvenated (Bahn and Weatherill 2013; Batty 2020; Carroll 2012; Dickson-Swift et al 2008; Fincham 2008; Nelson 2020). Supervisors and a community of peers to problem-solve and debrief alongside are also major sources of support (Dickson-Swift et al 2008).…”

Section: Competencies For Trauma and Justice-informed Ethnographymentioning

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Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography

Winfield

2021

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

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Ethnographers often work with individuals who are physically, psychologically, spiritually, and/or structurally vulnerable. The article introduces six competencies for ethnographers to be trained in and assessed on to ensure their research is trauma and justice-informed. The author builds from her own research experiences, current methodological approaches to qualitative inquiry, and an integration of sociology and psychology to detail these competencies and provide tools for training and assessment. The competencies include the following: (a) self-awareness; (b) participant-centered approach; (c) recognition of social location; (d) attention to trauma; (e) knowledge of professional limits; and (f) effective boundaries and self-care. The six competencies and Action-reflection course outlined in the article are designed to support researchers in attending to how their personal histories, embodied states, and power dynamics shape the research endeavor, as well as, learn skills for healthy boundary-keeping, risk assessment, and steps to minimize participant (re)traumatization. Although these competencies are essential for work with disempowered populations, they are beneficial for all qualitative researchers to ensure both personal and participant safety.

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Questioning identities/shifting identities: the impact of researching sex and gender on a researcher’s LGBT+ identity

Cited by 27 publications

References 56 publications

An Exploration of Queer Spaces and Worldviews in the Accounting Profession.

An Exploration of Queer Spaces and Worldviews in the Accounting Profession.

Qualitative research methods I: Emotionally engaged approaches to working with vulnerable participants

Vulnerable Research: Competencies for Trauma and Justice-Informed Ethnography

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