The article discusses the necessity of including positionality statements in submissions to Foreign Language Annals to promote reflexive research practices across quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methods studies. It explores how scholars' identities shape research narratives, advocates for deeper e...
Positionality is a critical understanding of the role a scholar’s background and current (socially constructed and perceived) position in the world plays in the production of academic knowledge, particularly in qualitative research in the social sciences. Multiple epistemologies—ways of knowing or und...
In that vein, academics are now made to include “positionality statements” as disclaimers to their published work — ostensibly, as a way of legitimizing or delegitimizing the findings therein based on their (mostly immutable) irrelevant personal characteristics. ViaThe Equality Institute...