Reflections on the Use of a Phenomenological Method

Willig, Carla

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“…Cet exercice est accompli à travers l'identification de thèmes et leur analyse afin de dévelop-per une description thématique (aussi connue comme description essentielle ou approfondie ou narration) (Caelli, 2001;Creswell, 2009;Moustakas, 1994;Van Manen, 1990;Willig, 2007). L'essence est la signification essentielle d'un phénomène qui est invariable dans les différentes expériences vécues (Lindseth et Norberg, 2004).…”

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L’expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal

Bélanger¹,

Cameron²

2016

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Montréal, ville de festivals. La construction d’une image de marque « en dur » à Montréal, par l’altération de ses caractéristiques physiques afin de créer une expérience unique, s’est matérialisée dans le projet de (re) développement du Quartier des spectacles. Localisé dans le quartier Faubourg Saint-Laurent, le projet de (re) développement, qui comprend différentes interventions concentrées sur une aire de 1 km2, semble avoir favorisé une nouvelle dynamique dans le quartier. En plus des nouveaux investissements dans les activités commerciales et de loisirs répondant notamment aux besoins des nombreux touristes et visiteurs, s’ajoute un regain d’intérêt pour les quartiers centraux montréalais comme milieu de vie. On y assiste donc, depuis quelques années, à des transformations physiques et sociales importantes. Les impacts de ce projet de construction d’un territoire spectaculaire sur les résidents de longue date sont difficiles à évaluer. S’intéressant à la complexité des expériences des résidents vivant au quotidien les impacts du projet de (re) développement du Quartier des spectacles, cette étude utilise une approche phénoménologique qui explore l’expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles, à partir d’entretiens en profondeur et ouverts auprès de trois résidents. Ces discussions ont permis l’identification de thèmes majeurs de leur expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles tels que l’attachement, eux/ils, changement/défis. L’expérience du Quartier des spectacles en lui-même est multidimensionnelle : site physique, image, festivals, gens et catalyseur de changement. Mais l’expérience des résidents de longue date met en doute le Quartier des spectacles comme environnement résidentiel.Montreal, city of festivals. The hard-branding construction in Montreal, i.e. the alteration of its physical characteristics with the objective of creating a unique experience, was realized through the (re) development project of the Quartier des spectacles. Located in the Faubourg Saint-Laurent neighbourhood, the (re) development project, which embodies multiple interventions within a 1 km2 area, seems to have created a new investment dynamic in the neighbourhood. In addition to commercial and leisure activities that cater to tourists and visitors, local investment has attempted to re-invigorate the image of this downtown neighbourhood as a desired residential environment. Montreal’s central neighbourhood is witnessing important physical and social transformations. The impact of (re) development projects on long-term residents is difficult to establish and evaluate. Interested primarily in the complexity of the experience of residents’ daily life in and around the Quartier des spectacles (re) development project, this study uses a phenomenological approach, by means of in-depth interviews with long-time residents. Analysis identified three major themes related to their experience: attachment, they/them, and change/challenges. The experience of the Quartier des spectacles is multidimension...

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L’expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal

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2016

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“…4. A fine example of this discursive challenge can be found in discursive-gone-phenomenological researcher Carla Willig's (2007) qualitative study of extreme sports in which Willig notes how her phenomenological methodology left unexplored the fact that her participants described their experiences by drawing on a biomedical discourse ('adrenaline buzz') instead of using more existential terms ('feeling alive').…”

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Introducing postphenomenological research: a brief and selective sketch of phenomenological research methods

Aagaard

2016

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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In time, phenomenology has become a viable approach to conducting qualitative studies in education. Popular and well-established methods include descriptive and hermeneutic phenomenology. Based on critiques of the essentialism and receptivity of these two methods, however, this article offers a third variation of empirical phenomenology: Postphenomenology. The article introduces postphenomenology, a philosophy of technology that highlights the importance of technological mediation of experience: Technologies transform our perceptions (amplify/reduce) and translate our actions (invite/inhibit). Based on this framework, two approaches to empirical fieldwork are suggested: In-depth exploration of the typical use of a given technology and critical comparison of multiple versions of a technology. It is argued that using postphenomenology as a research method helps researchers explore technological mediation, a vital and oft-neglected aspect of educational practice, but the method simultaneously entails epistemological commitments such as multistability, reflexivity, and posthumanism. The article concludes by discussing future challenges for the postphenomenological method.

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“…These meanings, felt in the body, can become the source of thoughts and words that point to greater wholes, so that: 'The greater wholeness can never be fully summarized, but its impact can be somewhat felt and held through the evocative power of words ' (2008: 1571). As Willig (2007) notes in relation to her phenomenological research on extreme sports, language is a central issue for phenomenologists, given that it both facilitates and limits the expression of experience. Although phenomenology, as with any theoretical or methodological approach, can never fully capture or summarise the totality of an experience (and is explicit about this partialness), this article has suggested how phenomenologicallyinspired perspectives -both theoretical and methodological -might bring fresh insights to the portrayal of the lived sporting and exercising body.…”

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“…Colaizzi, 1978;Moustakas, 1994;Dale, 1996;Willig, 2007). There have been numerous and varied efforts at operationalising phenomenology in a specific empirical approach, which seeks to obtain 'comprehensive descriptions that provide the basis for a reflective structural analysis that portrays the essences of the experience' (Moustakas, 1994: 13).…”

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Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology

Allen‐Collinson

2009

Qualitative Research in Sport and Exercise

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Whilst in recent years sports studies have addressed the calls 'to bring the body back in' to theorisations of sport and physical activity, the 'promise of phenomenology' remains largely under-realised with regard to sporting embodiment. Relatively few accounts are grounded in the 'flesh' of the lived sporting body, and phenomenology offers a powerful framework for such analysis. A wide-ranging, multi-stranded, and interpretatively contested perspective, phenomenology in general has been taken up and utilised in very different ways within different disciplinary fields. The purpose of this article is to consider some selected phenomenological threads, key qualities of the phenomenological method, and the potential for existentialist phenomenology in particular to contribute fresh perspectives to the sociological study of embodiment in sport and exercise. It offers one way to convey the 'essences', corporeal immediacy and textured sensuosity of the lived sporting body.The use of Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) is also critically addressed.

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Reflections on the Use of a Phenomenological Method

Cited by 138 publications

References 14 publications

L’expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal

L’expérience d’habiter dans ou autour du Quartier des spectacles de Montréal

Introducing postphenomenological research: a brief and selective sketch of phenomenological research methods

Sporting embodiment: sports studies and the (continuing) promise of phenomenology

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