Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology

This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.

Invites the reader to acknowledge the situatedness of all knowledge production, based on feminist contributions to the philosophy of science Invites the reader to be aware of herself as a co-producer of knowledge in field and text, and contains several examples from the authors' own research Aims at broadening the scope of situatedness and suggest a some gestalt therapeutical techniques as of how the researcher may go about situatedness in concrete research Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Autorentext
Cecilie Basberg Neumann is Associate Professor in Sociology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. She is also a Gestalt therapist from the Norwegian Gestalt Institute in Oslo.

Iver B. Neumann is Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the author (with Kevin Dunn) of Discourse Analysis for Social Research.

Inhalt

1. Introduction .- 2. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness, in-field situatedness, post-field text situatedness .- 3. A century of thinking about situatedness: The Gestalt tradition .- 4. Conceptual inspiration from the Gestalt tradition .- 5. Interview techniques .- 6. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness and post-field textual situatedness .- 7. Philosophy of science: two ways of going about situatedness .- 8. Conclusion: Culture, power, ethics.