Reflecting on one's positionality as a researcher is a critical element in qualitative studies. While there are various qualitative studies on the meaning of and the way positionality affects qualitative research practice, this research note examines the phenomenon as it applies to the author's ...
Awareness of one’s positionality and its implications is known ascritical consciousness(see also,wokeness). This attitude proceeds ultimately fromstandpoint epistemology, which is a theoretical idea that suggests that knowledge about oppression is only available by directly experiencing it. This view is ...
Shared gender is regarded as partially, but not universally, promoting rapport, taking into account the intersectionality of multiple differences between women. Considering the researcher€s positionality has been presented in this paper as a means of making similarities and differences between participants...
Feminist and poststructural challenges to objectivist social science demand greater reflection by the researcher with the aim of producing more inclusive methods sensitive to the power relations in fieldwork. Following a discussion of contrasting approaches to these power relations, I present a reflexive...
To understand the spatial (re)configurations of (race) subjectivities and how this affects researcher positionality, I offer an autoethnography of a bi/multiracial Western woman of New Zealand Māori/Pākehā descent interpellated as ‘insufficient Other’ in her home context of Aotearoa New Zealand,...
Identity and language learning is one of the most vibrant areas of current research that considers language learning as a fundamentally social process. While recognizing the limitations of more traditional psycholinguistic models that see language learning as primarily an individualistic mental process, many...
Positionality is the practice of a researcher delineating his or her own position in relation to the study, with the implication that this position may influence aspect of the study, such as the data collected or the way in which it is interpreted. This entry discusses the concept of ...
RESEARCHER POSITIONALITY AS SELF-REFLEXIVITY IN INDIGENOUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP RESEARCH: From Zimbabwe to Aotearoadoi:10.20507/MAIJournal.2021.10.2.11Manganda, Admiral MunyaradziMAI Journal (2230-6862)
The chapter is an opportunity for retrospective reflection on issues of race and positionality of a researcher. A retrospective reflexivity is offered as a departure from the dominant approach of doing reflexivity because it provides an opportunity for identifying 'transformative intervals' that occur ...
Researcher positionality has come into focus in a number of fields, as scholars increasingly acknowledge the impact of their lived experiences and identities on all aspects of the research process. In most areas of linguistics, however, researcher positionality remains underdiscussed, even as many...