Researching 'my people,' researching myself: Fragments of a reflexive tale

Chaudhry, Lubna Nazir

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“…African and African-American women scholars specifically indicate the strengths of oral narrative research for expanding and transforming knowledge about Black women (Etter-Lewis 1993;Vaz 1997). Other women of color further emphasize the power of narrative as a form of challenge to the status quo (Chaudhry 2000;Sandoval 2000;Villenas 2000). By telling their own stories, women resist the colonizing practice of presenting them as victims.…”

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Academic careers of immigrant women professors in the U.S.

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2007

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The article draws on the narratives of 34 immigrant women professors from 22 different countries who teach in a major research university in the U.S. First, the article presents immigrant women professors' voices of experiencing traditional academic activities in terms of teaching, research, and administration/service. Second, the paper voices women's stories of social climate prevailing in their departments and institutions that affects their academic careers. Third, the article narrates women's expressions of their efforts to balance academic life and family life.

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Academic careers of immigrant women professors in the U.S.

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2007

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“…Reflexivity for Visweswaran is used not as a confrontation to come to represent the other "but to learn to represent ourselves" (p. 77). Chaudhry (2000), reading Visweswaran, characterizes this move as a move from "a politics of identity to politics of identification" (p. 109). This representation should not I believe be read as a simplistic, coherent telling -reflexivity is not in Visweswaran's or Chaudrhy's hands a coming to know who the author is but a critique of the disciplinary practices of ethnography and continual exposure of power relations, to, in Visweswaran's words, "confront plays of power in our processes of interpretation" (p. 79).…”

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“…Likewise, Chaudhry's (2000) essay focuses upon her own shifting subjectivities and highlights the many tensions and contradictions in her research in a style that continuously challenges the reader. Chaudhry's use of reflexivity, influenced by but differentiated from Visweswaran's and Lather's use of the term as synonymous with deconstruction, is more closely aligned with Trinh's (1989) characterization of reflexivity as a "relationship that defines both the subject written and the writing subject" (p. 76).…”

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“…First, I read Lubna Chaudhry (2000) through and with Kamala Visweswaran (1994), whom Chaudhry also reads. Amidst recent calls for multivoiced texts, dialogical works, and text that "let the voices be heard," Visweswaran (1994) opts to see the research "text as overdetermined, becoming something like an omniscient narrator" (p. 75).…”

Section: Interrupting Comfortable Reflexivity -Reflexivities Of Discomentioning

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Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research

Pillow

2003

International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education

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Reflexivity is commonly used in qualitative research and has been posited and accepted as a method qualitative researchers can and should use to legitimize, validate, and question research practices and representations. This paper closely examines the role of reflexivity as a methodological tool as it intersects with debates and questions surrounding representation and legitimization in qualitative research, within modernist and postmodernist ideologies, and pays close attention to how reflexivity is being defined and used in present-day research. Specifically, the author identifies and discusses the problematics of four common trends in present-day uses of reflexivity: reflexivity as recognition of self, reflexivity as recognition of other, reflexivity as truth, and reflexivity as transcendence. The author argues for a move away from comfortable uses of reflexivity to what she terms uncomfortable reflexive practices and provides an overview of the work of three authors who practice reflexivities of discomfort. Practicing uncomfortable reflexivity interrupts uses of reflexivity as a methodological tool to get better data while forefronting the complexities of doing engaged qualitative research.

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“…Through the research process, I have come to understand that reflexivity means placing a critical lens, shaped by insider-outsider perceptions, on my own culture. As Chaudhry (2000) asserts, "Reflexivity is my bid to contextualize the research project within those aspects of myself that are for the most part denied voice in mainstream academic discourse" (p. 109).…”

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Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

Hamdan

2010

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This paper discusses my position as an Arab Muslim woman researcher who is affiliated with a Western university, researching Arab Muslim Canadian women. I discuss how reflexivity has emerged as an element of my research endeavours. Various notions of reflexivity in educational research have been expressed in the literature, yet I focus on what it means to me as an insider-outsider researcher and how it characterizes my research endeavours. In this paper, I explore the complexity of occupying these multiple subjectivities.Cet article explore ma position comme chercheure musulmane arabe affiliée à une université occidentale étudiant la vie des femmes canadiennes musulmanes arabes. J’y examine de quelle manière la réflexivité a émergé comme élément de mes projets de recherche. Bien que diverses notions de réflexivité aient été soulevées dans la littérature, je cible ce que cela signifie pour moi en tant que chercheure initiée et observatrice ainsi que de quelle manière cela teinte mes recherches. J’y analyse la complexité d’incarner ces multiples subjectivités

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Researching 'my people,' researching myself: Fragments of a reflexive tale

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Academic careers of immigrant women professors in the U.S.

Academic careers of immigrant women professors in the U.S.

Confession, catharsis, or cure? Rethinking the uses of reflexivity as methodological power in qualitative research

Reflexivity of Discomfort in Insider-Outsider Educational Research

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