To see the other types of publications on this topic, follow the link: Researcher subjectivity.
Journal articles on the topic 'Researcher subjectivity'
Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles
Consult the top 50 journal articles for your research on the topic 'Researcher subjectivity.'
Next to every source in the list of references, there is an 'Add to bibliography' button. Press on it, and we will generate automatically the bibliographic reference to the chosen work in the citation style you need: APA, MLA, Harvard, Chicago, Vancouver, etc.
You can also download the full text of the academic publication as pdf and read online its abstract whenever available in the metadata.
Browse journal articles on a wide variety of disciplines and organise your bibliography correctly.
1
Houtbeckers, Eeva. "Researcher subjectivity in social entrepreneurship ethnographies." Social Enterprise Journal 13, no. 02 (2017): 128–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/sej-07-2016-0025.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to discuss researcher subjectivity in social entrepreneurship ethnographies. Previous research has highlighted a need for alternatives to the heroic representations of social entrepreneurship. Ethnographic methods have been mentioned as a relevant direction to create such emerging understandings. Design/methodology/approach This paper shows what followed from a decision of a researcher to do an ethnography of a co-working cooperative established for social innovation. Based on the notion of “working the hyphens” in previous research, further developed by other scholars as “working within hyphen-spaces”, the position of the researcher shifted during the research process between a distant outsider and an engaged insider. In addition, a new hyphen-space of hopefulness – hopelessness emerged based on fieldwork. Findings The shifting positions are manifested in the entanglement of stories of the researcher and the people met during the fieldwork in the hyphen-spaces of insiderness – outsiderness, engagement – distance and hopefulness – hopelessness. The stories reveal how for some the co-working space was a place for hope while for others it caused distress and even burnout. Practical/implications The ethnographic understanding of social enterprises go beyond heroic representations, which affects how the phenomenon is represented in academic and public discussions. Social/implications This study concludes that despite its failure in the form of a bankruptcy, the co-working cooperative succeeded in enabling “social innovation” in the form of hope and personal development – also for the researcher. Originality/value This study contributes to the social entrepreneurship literature in showing how ethnographic fieldwork and acknowledging researcher subjectivity bring up alternative representations of social entrepreneurship. The entangled stories of participants and researchers can be a powerful way to reveal situated understandings.
2
Nelson, Cynthia D. "Crafting Researcher Subjectivity in Ways That Enact Theory." Journal of Language, Identity & Education 4, no. 4 (2005): 315–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1207/s15327701jlie0404_8.
Full text
3
Carr, Melissa Louise. "Moments of Discomfort: Poststructuralist Reflexivity and Researcher Subjectivity." Academy of Management Proceedings 2021, no. 1 (2021): 15531. http://dx.doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2021.15531abstract.
Full text
4
Mphaphuli, Memory, and Gabriele Griffin. "“Ducking, diving and playing along”." Qualitative Research Journal 20, no. 1 (2019): 34–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/qrj-03-2019-0029.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the fieldwork dilemmas a young, female, heterosexual, indigenous South African researching everyday negotiations around heterosexuality within township families encountered in negotiating her own heteroerotic subjectivity within the field. Design/methodology/approach A heterosexuality studies approach is here combined with a critical feminist research methodological perspective. Findings The paper argues that researchers are often unprepared for having to negotiate their erotic subjectivity within the field and that such negotiations can be compromising to the researcher in a variety of ways. Practical implications The paper suggests that more might be done to prepare researchers for negotiating identity aspects such as sexuality in the field since that negotiation impacts on one’s research and the researcher’s sense of self in the field. Social implications The paper critically interrogates what negotiating one’s erotic subjectivity in the field might mean. Originality/value Little is published on female researchers negotiating their heteroerotic subjectivity in the field. The paper contributes original insights on this from fieldwork carried out by an indigenous heterosexual female researcher in South African townships. It raises important issues about the conduct of fieldwork in (non-)compromising and agentic ways.
5
Guerriero, Iara Coelho Zito, and Sueli Gandolfi Dallari. "The need for adequate ethical guidelines for qualitative health research." Ciência & Saúde Coletiva 13, no. 2 (2008): 303–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s1413-81232008000200002.
Full textAbstract:
This paper discusses adequacy as to the application of Brazilian guidelines, Resolution 196/96¹ and complementaries to qualitative health researches, considering that these are based on non-positivistic paradigms. Frequently, decisions about the research are made together with the studied community. There is a concern with justice and social change. And, since subjectivity can be considered their privileged instrument, such researchers seek a balance between objectivity and subjectivity, discussing how to overcome the researcher's view. We have studied the application and the concept of research found in international and in the Brazilian guidelines. We have noticed that they adopt a positivist conception of research, which establishes 1) the hypothesis test, 2) that all procedures are previously defined by the researcher; 3) neutrality of the researcher and of the knowledge produced. We will present some characteristics of qualitative research; the ethical implications in the way as qualitative research is conceived in non-positivist paradigms and a brief history of these guidelines. Our conclusion: it is inadequate to analyze qualitative researches using these documents, and we suggest the design of specific guidelines for them.
6
Groven, Karen Synne, and Gunn Engelsrud. "Allowing one's own bodily experience to "count": Elaborating on inter- subjectivity and subjectivity in phenomenological studies." Journal of Education and Research 3 (March 27, 2013): 24–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v3i0.7850.
Full textAbstract:
Phenomenology, according to Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty, looks at human beings in the world. Drawing on their perspective, one could argue that inter-subjectivity, like a researcher’s subjectivity, should be explicitly acknowledged in phenomenological studies. In the following pages we explore how using this approach can make findings more transparent and trustworthy. This study is based on a review of five articles focused on subjectivity and inter-subjectivity in phenomenological studies. In addition, we draw on the first author’s experiences as a PhD candidate studying to become a “phenomenological” researcher. Our findings reveal that reflecting explicitly on bodily subjectivity during the research process can reveal connections between the context of the interview, how the material is created socially and textually and how the researcher utilized information from her own body in the interpretation of the material. This, in turn, is likely to make the findings more inter-subjective and transparent, and thus more trustworthy and valid. Our findings point to the value of letting one’s own bodily experiences “count” in the process of determining how to explore the phenomena in question. Although the literature offers guidelines, each project and each researcher is unique. In this light, personal reflections are likely to highlight the value of critically engaging – and making explicit – the researcher’s own experiences, both during and after the interview process.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v3i0.7850Journal of Education and Research March 2013, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 24-40
7
Torelli, Julian. "On Entering the Field: Notes from a Neophyte Researcher." Qualitative Sociology Review 15, no. 3 (2019): 64–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.3.04.
Full textAbstract:
Qualitative field research can capture the life worlds and definitions of the situation of informants often not reported in quantitative studies. Post hoc reflections of how more seasoned researchers define, assess, and interpret the process of entering the field and the interview dynamic between the researcher’s subjectivity and the subjectivity of informants are widespread in the qualitative research literature. However, seldom are the personal stories and reflections of neophyte researchers voiced in published accounts. This article accounts for my experiences in researching the “dirty work” of frontline caseworkers and the importance of practicing empathy while managing a boundary. I emphasize the practical sense-making challenges of managing a delicate balance between under and over rapport in researching homeless shelter caseworkers as an occupational group. My experiences underscore the challenging dynamics of maintaining a professionally oriented research-role, as well as the crucial importance of boundary work and distancing as practical strategies to qualitative interviewing.
8
Brown, Tony. "Desire and Drive in Researcher Subjectivity: The Broken Mirror of Lacan." Qualitative Inquiry 14, no. 3 (2008): 402–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800407311960.
Full text
9
Santos, Gildenir Carolino. "Editorial English." ETD - Educação Temática Digital 12 (January 11, 2012): 4. http://dx.doi.org/10.20396/etd.v12i0.856.
Full textAbstract:
This is another special edition that ETD - Digital Thematic Education –launches for your appreciation! This time, the contribution comes from Sobral, Ceará State. The topic addressed is "Youth, Culture, Diversity and Subjectivity", dossier organized by the professor and researcher Andrea Abreu Astigarraga from State University of Acaraú Valley (UVA). It brings 3 (three) articles, (3) three researches and 1 (one) experience report.
10
Whitson, Risa. "Painting Pictures of Ourselves: Researcher Subjectivity in the Practice of Feminist Reflexivity." Professional Geographer 69, no. 2 (2016): 299–306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2016.1208510.
Full text
11
Carabine, Jean. "In the Studio: Researcher Subjectivity, the Infant Observation Method, and Researching Creative Practices." Methodological Innovations Online 8, no. 1 (2013): 65–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.4256/mio.2013.0005.
Full text
12
Goodley, Dan. "Disability Research and the “Researcher Template”: Reflections on Grounded Subjectivity in Ethnographic Research." Qualitative Inquiry 5, no. 1 (1999): 24–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/107780049900500102.
Full text
13
Brunila, Kristiina, and Kristiina Hannukainen. "Academic researchers on the project market in the ethos of knowledge capitalism." European Educational Research Journal 16, no. 6 (2017): 907–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474904116685100.
Full textAbstract:
How knowledge capitalism retools the scope of academic research and researchers is an issue which this article ties to the project market in the ethos of knowledge capitalism. In Finland, academic research has been forced to apply for funding in project-based activities reflecting European Union policies. The project market, which in this article represents knowledge capitalism, shapes opportunities related to research and knowledge as well as in terms of researcher subjectivity. However, a critical approach that recognises the function of power can both highlight and challenge the forms of knowledge capitalism that reorganises the scope of research and researchers today.
14
Shahid, Sameen, and Arooba Khurram. "A Postmodern Reading of Don DeLillo’s Short Stories." Journal of Communication and Cultural Trends 3, no. 1 (2021): 1–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.32350/jcct.31.01.
Full textAbstract:
The focus of this paper is to study how different techniques are incorporated in the postmodern fiction to present the multiplicity of meaning and subjectivity of the reality. For this purpose, the researcher has selected American novelist and short story writer Donald Richard DeLillo’s short stories “The Itch” and “Coming. Sun. Mon. Tues”. The researcher has analyzed the selected works using the theoretical frameworks provided by Fredric Jameson, Linda Hutcheon and Henri Bergson. The theoretical insights of the selected theorists help understand the subjective reality of the postmodernism. Textual analysis has been used as a method to study the selected fictional work. Postmodernism is critical of certain foundational conventions of philosophy, specifically, the Enlightenment thinking, as it symbolizes the pursuit of reason and logic. On the other hand, it focuses on the personalization and subjectivity in the construction of truth and worldviews. The rejection of objective reality gives way to multiple realities and subjectivity. American fiction, in the second half of the twentieth century, has been influenced by postmodernism to a great extent. The analyzed short stories provide a good postmodern reading since they cover a range of features that are relatable in the postmodern world.
15
Drew, Nancy. "Bridging the Distance Between the Objectivism of Research and the Subjectivity of the Researcher." Advances in Nursing Science 29, no. 2 (2006): 181–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00012272-200604000-00011.
Full text
16
Bae, Berit. "Troubling the Identity of a Researcher: Methodological and Ethical Questions in Cooperating with Teacher-Carers in Norway." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 6, no. 3 (2005): 283–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.2304/ciec.2005.6.3.8.
Full textAbstract:
The questions raised in this article have to do with how to take due care of the subjectivity of the persons involved in a research project. My main point is that a researcher's self-reflection on ethical problems is inextricably a part of doing research in early childhood settings, if we want to create knowledge which is valid and takes care of the subjectivity of the persons taking part. Questions concerning ethics and validity thus are intertwined. The article draws from the experiences of being a participant observer and cooperating with preschool teacher-carers in Norwegian preschool day-care centres or nursery schools. The purpose of the article is to draw attention to troubling questions which may arise in all phases of a research project involving practitioners in early childhood settings. The focus is on how reflecting on such questions may challenge the powerful role of the researcher and empower the position of the teacher.
17
Shenton, Andrew Kenneth. "Demonstrating impact: a possible approach for the LIS researcher." Library and Information Research 38, no. 119 (2015): 67–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.29173/lirg636.
Full textAbstract:
For many years, research has been judged according to the number of citations it attracts. However, this criterion may be criticised for paying no attention to differences in the nature of individual citations. This article shows how researchers can produce an impact continuum, with one pole highlighting situations where their work is integral to a later study and the other scenarios where it is only peripheral. The continuum presented here suggests ten categories of use and examples from the author’s own work are given as illustrations. The paper also outlines problems associated with the continuum. These include subjectivity in the placement of the categories and the potential difficulty of determining how far a particular study has actually influenced the thinking of a later researcher. Nevertheless, there are clear ways in which the structure may be helpful to readers seeking to highlight their research impact through typologies and case studies.
18
Hiah, Jing. "Navigeren in het onderzoeksveld en het onderzoekersveld: reflecties op onderzoekspositionaliteit in (vermeend) insideronderzoek." KWALON 26, no. 1 (2021): 43–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/kwa2021.1.005.hiah.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Navigating the research and researchers’ field: Reflections on positionality in (assumed) insider research To challenge rigid ideas about objectivity in social science research, qualitative researchers question their own subjectivity in the research process. In such endeavors, the focus is mainly on the positionality of the researcher vis-à-vis their respondents in the research field. In this contribution, I argue that the positionality of the researcher in academia, what I refer to as the researchers’ field, is equally important as it influences the way research findings are received and evaluated. Through reflections on positionality in my insider research concerning labour relations and exploitation in Chinese migrant businesses in the Netherlands and Romania, I explore how my positionality as an insider negatively influenced my credibility and approachability in the researchers’ field. I conclude that it is necessary to pay more attention to researchers’ positionality in academia as it may shed light on and make it possible to discuss the written and unwritten standards of researchers’ credibility and approachability as an academic in the researchers’ field. Accordingly, this could provide insights into the causes of inequalities in academia and contribute to the current challenge for more diversity in academia.
19
Waling, Andrea. "I Can’t/Can I Touch Him? Erotic Subjectivity, Sexual Attraction, and Research in the Field." Qualitative Inquiry 24, no. 9 (2017): 720–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800417734561.
Full textAbstract:
Sexual attraction and desire in the field have long been taboo subjects, where the researcher is expected to remain an objective observer, devoid of sexuality. Recently, scholars have advocated for the acknowledgment of sexual attraction and desire in the field as a way to think reflexively about the research process and subsequent impacts, known in anthropology as “erotic subjectivity.” This article reflects on the ethical dilemma of the female feminist researcher doing ethnographic fieldwork in such a space where sexual performativity and active desiring is demanded of them by the research subjects themselves. Based on an ethnographic account of professional men’s strip-tease show, this article details the dilemmas concerning the need to remain objective and distanced from such acts as a researcher, the feminist discomfiture in the blatant objectification and sexualization, both physically and visually of men, and the expectation to publicly perform sexuality by peers and research subjects alike.
20
TOMKINS, LEAH. "The Myth of Narcissus: Ovid and the Problem of Subjectivity in Psychology." Greece and Rome 58, no. 2 (2011): 224–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0017383511000131.
Full textAbstract:
This article discusses an engagement between the worlds of classical poetry and contemporary empirical psychology. What starts with a return to a classical text through the lens of psychology turns into a review of psychology through the lens of the Classics, inspiring some fresh ideas about subjectivity and how to handle it in psychological research. The question of subjectivity is, of course, a key one for the humanities, because the personhood of the reader, the interpreter, or the researcher exerts a vital influence on the way in which any text is read and its meaning extracted.
21
De Koning, Martijn, Edien Bartels, and Daniëlle Koning. "Claiming the Researcher’s Identity." Fieldwork in Religion 6, no. 2 (2012): 168–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/firn.v6i2.168.
Full textAbstract:
In this chapter we will discuss the consequences for doing research in the case of a topic and field that has become subject to intense public debate. In three cases involving research on Islam and Muslims we will take up questions pertaining to inter-subjectivity, and show how research on public issues, the relation between the worldviews of informants and those of the researcher, and processes of inclusion and exclusion during fieldwork are influenced by the politicization of Islam. We show how sudden changes in the societal context influence local identifications and allegiances. In our cases these changes produced a politicization of the field which, in turn led to the construction of the researchers as ‘natives’ by the informants. We argue that a reflection on this construction is necessary in order to better analyse processes of signification among informants and render a more adequate representation of the researched.
22
Saitta, Pietro. "Practices of subjectivity: the informal economies and the subaltern rebellion." International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy 37, no. 7/8 (2017): 400–416. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijssp-06-2016-0073.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the links between “informal economies” and the concept of “resistance.” The author argues that the petty illegalities of the dominated and subaltern classes should be seen in their connections to the illegalism of the élites and the state. Within this framework, the informal economy is seen as both the outcome of a set of material conditions aiming at the subordinated inclusion of entire classes of citizens, and the mark of the willingness by these same subalterns to evade the bonds imposed on them by the legislations and the social hierarchies. Design/methodology/approach A review of the ethnographical and socio-economical literature on the issue of informality, accompanied by ex-post reflections on pertinent studies conducted in the past by the researcher. Findings Against the dominant public rhetoric, the informal economy is here seen as a particular space of enactment by the dominated and subalterns aimed at self-producing paradoxical forms of inclusion within social contexts characterized by barriers to access integration within mainstream society. It is argued that in consideration of the power relations that structure the “field,” researchers themselves become part of the struggle counterpoising individuals and institutions, and should thus make a choice among the clashing parties. Originality/value The paper draws on a vast body of literature that appears to go in the same direction. However, it radicalizes the instances proposed by previous authors and studies, and draws conclusions concerning the nature of the object and the ethics of research, that are opposed to the prevalent approaches to the subject.
23
Hilppö, Jaakko, Niklas Alexander Chimirri, and Antti Rajala. "Theorizing Research Ethics for the Study of Psychological Phenomena from Within Relational Everyday Life." Human Arenas 2, no. 4 (2019): 405–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s42087-019-00073-x.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract How to investigate psychologically relevant phenomena in the most ethical ways possible is an enduring question for researchers not only in psychology but also in adjacent fields that study human subjectivity. Once acknowledging that both researchers and the people whose lives they want to study are human beings acting in a common world, also inhabited by non-human beings, the relationship between researchers and participants touches upon fundamental questions not only about what it means to do research together, but also what it means to conduct life in this world together. This implies that questions regarding what counts as ethical conduct need to be accentuated and also profoundly re-drawn given the encompassing complexity of these relations. In this article, we will shortly review the theoretical foundations and associated problematics of the dominant view of the researcher-researched relationship in current psychological (and other) research ethics. We then present and discuss what we mean by a relational ethical position from within practice and for practice. We will also shortly introduce how the other contributions to this special section advance the theoretical debates on research ethics.
24
Burns, David P., Colin L. Piquette, and Stephen P. Norris. "Virtue, Objectivity, and the Character of the Education Researcher." Paideusis 18, no. 1 (2020): 60–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/1072339ar.
Full textAbstract:
In his 1993 book, Hare asks “What Makes a Good Teacher?” In this paper we ask, “What makes a good education researcher?” We begin our discussion with Richard Rudner's classic 1953 essay, The Scientist Qua Scientist Makes Value Judgments, which confronted science with the internal subjectivity it had long ignored. Rudner's bold claim that scientists do make value judgments as scientists called attention to the very foundations of scientific conduct. In an era of institutional research ethics, like the Tri-Council’s ethics policy, Rudner's call for an approach to these value judgments is even more relevant. The contemporary education researcher primarily engages with ethics procedurally, which provides a certain level of consistency and objectivity. This approach has its roots in principle-based theories of ethics that have long been dominant in Western universities. We argue that calls, like Rudner's, for an objective science of ethics, are at the root of this dominant institutional approach. This paper critiques the suitability of such principle-based ethics for solving Rudner's concerns, and posits that educational research ethics is better understood as a matter of character and virtue. We argue that, much like the ethical teacher, the ethical education researcher is a certain kind of person.
25
Fajar, Abbas Sofwan Matla'il, and Hamdan Maghribi. "Rapprochement sebagai Pendekatan Sirkulatif dalam Membangun Intersubjectivitas Studi Agama." Jurnal Intelektual: Jurnal Pendidikan dan Studi Keislaman 11, no. 1 (2021): 74–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.33367/ji.v11i1.1611.
Full textAbstract:
The "rapproachment" is a way of reading religious paradigms that lead to the intersubjectivity of religious studies. Kim Knott as a researcher who focuses on the field of religious studies in providing new offers in the methodology of religious studies. This arises because of the many obstacles faced by academics in various universities regarding religious studies, starting from stagnation in methodology and approaches. Kim Knott's offer is based on two approaches, namely outsider and insider, then she developed into four elements, on the outsider includes pure researchers and researchers as participants, while in insider includes pure participants and participants as researchers, then to sharpen the objectivity of the research he offers a circular approach between subjects and object towards inter-subjectivity called the 'rapprochement' approach as reflective links that complement each other and lead to the intersection between religions.
26
Chertkova, Elena L. "In Search of the Basis of Conscious Existence (Thinking About a Book)." Voprosy Filosofii, no. 12 (2020): 124–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.21146/0042-8744-2020-12-124-131.
Full textAbstract:
The article deals with the original concept of subjectivity, which is developed by the famous German researcher Dieter Henrich and is based on the traditions of German classical philosophy. The peculiarities of this concept are comprehended in the context of modern studies of consciousness and subjectivity and its ideological potential for understanding and for criticizing analytical and phenomenological concepts of consciousness, as well as naturalism in its various modifications, is revealed. D. Henrich offers an alternative to the naturalistic way of studying subjectivity through methods and means of philosophical, speculative thinking itself, which he understands as “categorically disciplined striving beyond the boundaries of the obvious and convincingly provable”. In fact, he brings us back to metaphysics. The author emphasizes that Henrich seeks to consider subjectivity consistently and comprehensively, from the first person point of view, precisely as the identity of subjectivity. Such ideological perspective specifically clarifies the problems of self-awareness, sociality, moral consciousness, the meaning of life and freedom, arising from a person’s self-knowledge and from thoughts perceiving way of thinking. All that, according to Henrich, forms the process of self-understanding of conscious life. The most valuable to the author is Henrich’s understanding of subjectivity as an integral phenomenon and of substantiation of a person’s importance as a subject that creates by his endless efforts the forms of culture and life. In this context, the concept of “the reality of freedom” which was proposed by Henrich and which is realized in the process of overcoming the reappearing dilemma of freedom and the determinism of the course of events in the world, looks very promising.
27
Lukens-Bull, Ronald. "Lost in a sea of subjectivity: the subject position of the researcher in the anthropology of Islam." Contemporary Islam 1, no. 2 (2007): 173–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11562-007-0014-y.
Full text
28
Erkonan, Sahika. "The politics of self-reflexivity in ethnography." Interactions: Studies in Communication & Culture 11, no. 1 (2020): 115–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/iscc_00012_7.
Full textAbstract:
This short commentary aims to describe the role of political subjectivity and the researcher’s memory in fieldwork by focusing on a self-reflective account of my ethnographic fieldwork. This reflection comes after two years of ethnographic inquiry into sensory experience and observation of how memory is performed in relation to personal photographs and objects. It is part of an ongoing Ph.D. thesis about the post-memories of Armenian Genocide descendants in the diaspora, where I seek to understand how they remember the past in the present by observing their sensory engagement with the past. As well as this, the fieldwork shows the necessity of auto-ethnographic inquiry of the researcher, given that I am Turkish. This commentary ultimately asks what the role is of political subjectivity in ethnographic fieldwork, thinking especially of visual mediation in the diaspora.
29
Mitchell, Jennifer, Nicholas Boettcher-Sheard, Camille Duque, and Bonnie Lashewicz. "Who Do We Think We Are? Disrupting Notions of Quality in Qualitative Research." Qualitative Health Research 28, no. 4 (2017): 673–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1049732317748896.
Full textAbstract:
The purpose of this article is to illuminate our troubles with, and troubling of, the trustworthiness dimension of balancing subjectivity and reflexivity, in qualitative research. This article evolved from debriefing sessions between three novice researchers working on a qualitative research study aimed at building understandings of the relational dynamics between adults with developmental disability diagnoses (ADevD) and their caregiving families. Following data collection, coauthors discussed interview experiences they had personally found challenging. These experiences constitute a point of departure for our examination of our researcher positions. We present a delineation of three research tensions, in the form of short “reflexive vignettes,” each rooted in concern with possibly contradicting our goals of facilitating and expanding participant autonomy. We follow with recommendations about how, as researchers, our endeavor to understand participants with less conventional communication can be used to reflect and inform navigating difficulties universal to qualitative research.
30
Sebele-Mpofu, Favourate Y. "The Sampling Conundrum in Qualitative Research: Can Saturation Help Alleviate the Controversy and Alleged Subjectivity in Sampling?" International Journal of Social Science Studies 9, no. 5 (2021): 11. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijsss.v9i5.5294.
Full textAbstract:
Sampling is one of the most controversial matters in qualitative research. Qualitative researchers have often been denounced for not giving adequate rationalisations for their sample size resolutions. This study aimed to provide an extensive review of sampling methods used in qualitative research and discuss the extent to which saturation might help alleviate the issues concerning these methods, sample size sufficiency and when to sample. The study specifically honed on the sampling adequacy (how big or how small should a sample be), the sampling techniques used and whether sample sizes should be delineated a priori, posteriori or during analysis. Having highlighted, the paradoxically nature of these aspects, through an overview of the sampling process, the researcher explored saturation as a tool to alleviate the challenges and the lack of objectivity in sampling in qualitative research. The overall findings were that, saturation does provide same degree of transparency and quality in sampling, but the concept is not immune to controversy, guidelines on how to apply it or achieve it remain foggy and contestable among researchers. Discussions are in most cases oversimplified and comparatively unknowledgeable. The answer to the research question, was that, what really constitutes an adequate sample size is only answerable within the context of the study, scientific paradigm, epistemological stance, ontological and methodological assumptions of the research conducted. Contextualisation of the mode of saturation adopted, clear articulation of the research methodology and transparent reporting of the whole process is key to enhance the role of saturation in alleviating subjectivity in sampling. This paper sought to make a contribution to the on-going methodological discourse on how qualitative researchers can justify their sampling decisions.
31
Shapoval, Valeriya, Morgan C. Wang, Tadayuki Hara, and Hideo Shioya. "Data Mining in Tourism Data Analysis: Inbound Visitors to Japan." Journal of Travel Research 57, no. 3 (2017): 310–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0047287517696960.
Full textAbstract:
The increasing power of technology puts new, advanced statistical tools at the disposal of researchers. This is one of the first research articles to use a data mining tool—namely, decision trees—to analyze the behavior of inbound tourists for the purpose of effective future destination marketing in Japan. The research results of approximately 4,000 observations show that the main motivation for visitors’ future return is not driven by experiences had during their most current visit but rather by experiences anticipated in the future, such as visiting hot springs or immersing themselves in beautiful natural settings. The data mining method largely excludes the possibility of the intrusion of researcher subjectivity and is conducive to useful discoveries of certain visitor patterns in large data sets, providing governments and destination marketing organizations with additional tools to better formulate effective destination marketing strategies.
32
D’Arcangelis, Carol Lynne. "Revelations of a White Settler Woman Scholar-Activist: The Fraught Promise of Self-Reflexivity." Cultural Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies 18, no. 5 (2017): 339–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1532708617750675.
Full textAbstract:
Based on a metanarrative analysis of the self-reflexive process I undertook during my research into the “solidarity encounter” between Indigenous women and White women in a contemporary Canadian context, I argue that self-reflexivity is a fraught mechanism for grappling with and dismantling structural privilege. I recount how, despite my best self-reflexive efforts and expectations to the contrary, I could not completely forestall some of the ways in which my subjectivity and hence power would infuse the research—specifically, in how the specter of the liberal subject would haunt it. This haunting, I contend, is indicative of the limits of self-reflexivity when it is underpinned by modernist/liberal ideologies of subjectivity. In short, I convey the perils and promises of self-reflexivity as a mechanism for revealing researcher impact on and for leveling power relations in social justice research (and beyond). Specifically, I identify in my own practice elements of the “validated reflexive strategies” critiqued by Wanda S. Pillow. I conclude that self-reflexivity is most valuable when approached as a window into structural oppression and privilege and not only into the power of researchers as individuals. Building on Sara Ahmed’s reflexive “double turn,” I argue that radical reflexivity is a better model for avoiding the vortex of a self-reflexivity performed by modernist/liberal subjects. I propose that radical reflexivity can assist researchers to identify the ways in which our structural positions overdetermine (though never absolutely or seamlessly) the contours of our scholarly and political commitments.
33
Taylor, Nick. "I’d rather be a cyborg than a gamerbro: How masculinity mediates research on digital play." MedieKultur: Journal of media and communication research 34, no. 64 (2018): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/mediekultur.v34i64.96990.
Full textAbstract:
This article offers a feminist and media-theoretical approach to ethnographic reflexivity, understood as the researcher’s own agency in shaping encounters with and producing accounts of digital cultures. Looking specifically at male-dominated domains of intensive and competitive play in public sites, such as arcades, local area network (LAN) parties, and eSports tournaments, this article asks: How might masculinity mediate studies of digital play? To address this, I weave together feminist ethnography with materialist media theory, offering an understanding of researcher subjectivity (in this case, my subjectivity) as a media instrument: An assemblage of social locations and learned competencies which does not simply gather, but configures and legitimates, particular knowledges about gaming cultures. Applying this to a problematic instance from fieldwork I conducted at a large-scale gaming event in 2011, I work through the methodological and epistemological quandaries associated with both studying and embodying the social privileges associated with male-dominated media cultures.
34
Flynn, Susan, and Tom Wengraf. "Devices for illuminating defended subjectivities in complex qualitative case interpretation: an example from recent BNIM practice." Journal of Psychosocial Studies 14, no. 2 (2021): 105–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/147867321x16218659135374.
Full textAbstract:
For a long time now, fairly central to what has emerged as ‘psychosocial studies’ has been the notion of psychosocietal ‘defendedness’. This is the psychoanalytic notion that people (not excluding social science researchers) must be understood in general as being ‘defended subjectivities’. This immediately raises the question of the ‘defended researcher’ being sensitive to ‐ and having procedures for detecting and interpreting the working of ‐ such ‘defensiveness’ in the interactions of their subjects and themselves. Biography-based research raises these issues particularly strongly. One such method, known as the ‘biographical narrative interpretative method’ (BNIM) of interviewing and case interpretation, has been used in the anglophone world for more than 20 years. While BNIM prescribes an audit trail for its interpretative practices, it is rare to discover a fully audited sequence of components, and rarer still to have access to illuminating free-associative fieldnotes that catalogue the researcher’s evolving subjectivity. This article discusses defendedness in a case interpretation within a BNIM-using PhD. We conclude that, to defeat the defensiveness of both researcher and peer-auditor (the co-authors of this article), several BNIM techniques need to be used systematically and that, in particular, a ‘private and confidential’ independent peer audit is valuable under certain conditions, and should be provided for in any research proposal. Through peer audit, the researcher can be (usually uncomfortably) sensitised to new possibilities about their otherwise inadequately understood defended processes and conclusions.
35
Jibirin Salihu, Muftahu. "Qualitative and Quantitative Debates in Contemporary Educational Research." INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN EDUCATION METHODOLOGY 7, no. 5 (2016): 1323–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.24297/ijrem.v7i5.4343.
Full textAbstract:
This research paper will begin with philosophically exploring the saying “The Researcher You Are Is The Person You Areâ€. This provide an insight on the views and the perspectives of the researcher on the research as a subject. Subsequently, the other contents of the paper are divided into two major sections. The first section discusses the Qualitative and Quantitative philosophical and theoretical debates in contemporary educational research; Qualitative and Quantitative approaches in educational research; Objectivity and Subjectivity in educational research; Links between Data Collection and Data Analysis in educational research. The second part of the paper discussed the action research in education and the reflection of the person you are is the researcher you are in educational research settings. Finally, the paper conclude that there is no single formula when it comes to conducting research in education, each and every researcher regardless of his or her area of study would always be conducting research based on what he or she thinks and deems is the best research paradigm and method to adopt. However, there are some confident guiding principles that their application guarantee effectiveness to a certain degree in educational research.
36
Chawla, Devika. "Subjectivity and the “Native” Ethnographer: Researcher Eligibility in an Ethnographic Study of Urban Indian Women in Hindu Arranged Marriages." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 5, no. 4 (2006): 13–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/160940690600500402.
Full text
37
Bracher, Nathan. "Jablonka et la question du sujet en sciences sociales." French Politics, Culture & Society 36, no. 3 (2018): 92–108. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fpcs.2018.360306.
Full textAbstract:
With its compelling portrait of a young woman who was savagely murdered after having endured various forms of male violence throughout her life, Ivan Jablonka’s Laëtitia ou la fin des hommes also provides a stark depiction of French society and politics in the second decade of the twentyfirst century. In deconstructing the sensationalism of the conventional crime story, the researcher-narrator seeks to draw as near as possible to the vivacious, yet fragile young woman while at the same time viewing her life in relation to various sociological and historical contexts defining its parameters. Jablonka’s own singular investment in the investigation and narration of Laëtitia thus poses the question of subjectivity in the social sciences. Recalling the landmark stances of Claude Lévi-Strauss and Emmanuel Lévinas, this article argues that Jablonka’s insistence on the explicit intervention of the researcher-narrator offers an epistemological gain and more precise knowledge.
38
Delaney, Katherine K. "Looking away: An analysis of early childhood teaching and learning experiences framed through a quality metric." Contemporary Issues in Early Childhood 19, no. 2 (2018): 167–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463949118778023.
Full textAbstract:
In this article, the author examines the ways in which a classroom quality metric framed the teaching and learning experiences of teachers and children in three Head Start classrooms. Using comic subjectivity theory, the author critically analyzes the ways in which the high-stakes classroom quality measure used in Head Start settings directed her gaze as a researcher, and had implications for teachers’ practice and children’s learning within the site of this gaze. This analysis raises questions about expectations for teachers’ performativity, the role of researchers’ complicity, and how children’s learning is conceptualized in early childhood classrooms that are heavily accountable to outside forces. This article also considers what the costs may be for teachers and children in early childhood settings where quality is conceptualized in ways that stand in stark contrast to teachers’ professional and personal knowledge. In these sites, their knowledge of and engagement with children is made subject to measure-directed regimes in the current accountability-driven era.
39
Wakelin, Daniel. "A New Age of Photography: ‘DIY Digitization’ in Manuscript Studies." Anglia 139, no. 1 (2021): 71–93. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ang-2021-0005.
Full textAbstract:
Abstract Since c. 2008 many special collections libraries have allowed researchers to take photographs of medieval manuscripts: this article calls such self-service photography ‘DIY digitization’. The article considers some possible effects of this digital tool for research on book history, especially on palaeography, comparing it in particular to the effects of institutionally-led digitization. ‘DIY digitization’ does assist with access to manuscripts, but less easily and with less open data than institutional digitization does. Instead, it allows the researcher’s intellectual agenda to guide the selection of what to photograph. The photographic process thereby becomes part of the process of analysis. Photography by the researcher is therefore limited by subjectivity but it also helps to highlight the role of subjective perspectives in scholarship. It can also balance a breadth or depth of perspective in ways different from institutional digitization. It could in theory foster increased textual scholarship but in practice has fostered attention to the materiality of the text.
40
Twinley, Rebecca. "Developing my Research Identity (Embodying the Self) through Exploring the Experience of Woman- to-Woman Rape and Sexual Assault Victim/Survivors: Doing, Being, Becoming, and Belonging." International Journal of Doctoral Studies 13 (2018): 155–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.28945/4004.
Full textAbstract:
Aim/Purpose: Engagement in doctoral training is intended to lead to personal development, as well as – of course - the development of a person’s skills as a researcher. Having engaged in the occupation of doctoral training, I aim to reflect upon how my identity as researcher developed throughout this process; that is, through doing, being, becoming, and belonging. The aim of my doctoral research was to explore the impact of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault. Hence, the foundational themes explored in this paper are sexual offending, auto/biography, and the significance of identity. Background: I commenced my doctoral training as someone who identified as an occupa-tional scientist and who, therefore, understood that occupation is a means through which people can develop, express themselves, and achieve some sense of belonging. Having completed my training, I reflect upon my becoming an auto/biographical researcher. Methodology: In this original paper, I use the sociologically-informed auto/biographical ap-proach, which affords me with the rationale for writing from the first-person perspective. Auto/biography concedes the combined inclusion of my own voice – as researcher - and the experiences of my respondents. Contribution: Little is known about the issue of woman-to-woman sexual offending, let alone the impact of researching this traumatic topic upon the researcher. Moreover, research has only relatively recently started to grow that explicitly uses an auto/biographical approach, in which researchers embrace their subjectivity and positionality within their work. Findings: Identifying as an auto/biographical researcher, I appreciate how my respond-ents – in terms of their identity and the stories they told me - were integral to my development. That is, I engaged in the process of developing and under-standing the Self through exploring the perceived impacts of woman-to-woman rape and sexual assault. Recommendations for Practitioners: I invite practitioners to share their awareness that woman-to-woman sexual offending is a very real phenomenon. Additionally, your engagement in or with research (which can include being the audience, or reader of research) is one way in which you can gain understanding of your Self. Recommendation for Researchers: I invite others to reflect upon how embodying the Self can lead you to gain self-knowledge through direct experience. Good, moral research practice does not have to involve the researcher remaining objective, neutral, and value-free. Your subjective and personal experiences as the researcher may well support the use of an auto/biographical approach. Impact on Society: Researching traumatic topics can have a varied emotional and professional impact upon researchers that warrants scrutiny. Use of an auto/biographical approach, in which the researcher’s insider status is made explicit - has enabled this researcher (me) to manage this impact, whilst also developing my knowledge, experience and Self. Future Research: Research that should follow on from this paper must continue to explore working auto/biographically when researching traumatic topics and biographical disruptions.
41
Stanley, Steven. "From discourse to awareness: Rhetoric, mindfulness, and a psychology without foundations." Theory & Psychology 23, no. 1 (2012): 60–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0959354312463261.
Full textAbstract:
This paper argues for a shift in the grounding of psychology from discourse to a “groundless ground” rooted in an ethically sensitive, within-person, and moment-to-moment embodied awareness. It offers a critique of discursive and rhetorical psychology commensurate with “affective turn” studies and develops an approach based in the practice of mindfulness meditation. This orientation enables the participant-researcher to come into experiential contact with a domain of pre-subjectivity not often addressed by discursive approaches. It also considers parallels between discursive constructionism and Buddhist mindfulness and shows how mindfulness is relationally and rhetorically organized as a social practice.
42
Williamson, Charmaine, Annelien Van Rooyen, Christina Shuttleworth, Carol Binnekade, and Deon Scott. "Wuity as a Philosophical Lens for Qualitative Data Analysis." International Journal of Qualitative Methods 19 (January 1, 2020): 160940692092688. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1609406920926885.
Full textAbstract:
Qualitative researchers place value on taking a closer, insider look at data as well as the subsequent data analysis and interpretation. On one end of the interpretive spectrum, researchers should be fully imbued with the coding-to-theorizing process by attending closely to the coding that leads to their analysis. On the opposite end, are those researchers positioned in the positivist paradigm, who vividly question the “researcher-as-data” analysis and its explicit subjectivity. As a middle ground, qualitative researchers have worked collectively in broader teams and/or used independent, practiced coders to add rigor to the coding process. These approaches clearly reflect the philosophical positions researchers adopt in following a research process. For the current study, the authors used the framework of Wuity thinking, which prompts exploratory learning and draws on Eastern-based wisdom. By using Wuity as both a method and a theory, an independent coder with prior knowledge of the coding process oriented a team into the epistemic practices of qualitative coding. The study found that the subtleties of a Wuity lens show delicate and enabling thresholds for expanding mindsets and practices within epistemic communities. The authors concluded that a coding team, working in a different manner, may well advance novel points of departure for qualitative analysis.
43
DEWI, SRY. "IMPROVING THE WRITING ABILITY USING MIND MAPPING TECHNIQUE FOR THE FIRST GRADERS OF STIKES MUHAMMADIYAH KENDAL IN THE ACADEMIC YEAR OF 2018/2019." Wiralodra English Journal 4, no. 1 (2020): 33–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.31943/wej.v4i1.80.
Full textAbstract:
The research attempts to investigate the result of students’ writing ability through the use of Mind Mapping Technique. It also describes the implementation of mind mapping technique in teaching writing, describes the students’ response and describes the students’ improvement. The subjects were The First Graders of STIKES Muhammadiyah Kendal in the Academic Year of 2018/2019. The type of this research is a classroom action research. In this research there are two cycles, and every cycle consisted of three meetings, and the end of each meeting the researcher conducts the post test to measure the improvement of the students’ writing ability. The data are collected by using observation lists, interview, field notes, documentation, and writing test. In analyzing data the researcher describes the mean of the students based on their score to know the students’ improvement in every cycle. There are two techniques to analyze the data. They are qualitative and quantitative method. To enhance the trustworthiness of the data and to reduce the subjectivity in analyzing the data, the researcher uses triangulation method. The result of this research is mind mapping is an appropriate technique to be used in improving the students’ writing ability.
44
Elkad-Lehman, Ilana, and Hava Greensfeld. "Intertextuality as an interpretative method in qualitative research." Narrative Inquiry 21, no. 2 (2011): 258–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ni.21.2.05elk.
Full textAbstract:
This article seeks to present and exemplify to the qualitative researcher the term intertextuality as a concept and as a method that may offer a framework for the analysis and interpretation of short narratives or life stories. Intertextuality as a central concept in the study of culture is particularly suitable for qualitative research, central to which is the subjectivity of the narrator, the story, and the listener/researcher, as well as the relative and indeterminate dimension of knowledge. However, using intertextuality as an interpretative method in various types of texts mandates the researcher’s awareness and abilities in areas that this article discusses. In light of the methodological objective of the article, we selected narratives that represent different types of intertextual linkage on different interpretative levels, on different levels of complexity, and on different levels of ideas. The intertextual reading to be demonstrated detects the combination of various types of cultural components in the narrative as a means of representing the world of the narrator; it takes into account a possible macro context in the narrator’s story, its style and structure, the narrator’s implicit personal interpretation, and the researcher-interpreter’s option to reread the narrative.
45
Thomson, Rachel, Lucy Hadfield, Mary Jane Kehily, and Sue Sharpe. "Acting up and acting out: encountering children in a longitudinal study of mothering." Qualitative Research 12, no. 2 (2012): 186–201. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794111421876.
Full textAbstract:
Despite a proliferation of research exploring children’s lives and relationships over the past two decades, there is a notable absence of research which explores family relationships from the perspective of very young children (age 0–3). This article reports on data emerging from a study of new mothering with a particular focus on very young children’s active engagement with wider family narratives. The study employs a qualitative longitudinal design, and women have been followed from pregnancy into motherhood. Most recently we have attempted to document a ‘day in the life’ of the mothers using participant observation techniques. This approach has enabled us to capture the emergence of the child (around 2 years old). This article focuses on examples of interaction between researcher, mother and child relating to food, exploring how researcher subjectivity can be interrogated as a source of evidence regarding the place of the child within the research and family dynamic including examples of ‘acting up’ and ‘acting out’ on the part of all participants.
46
Britton, Joanne. "Being an insider and outsider: whiteness as a key dimension of difference." Qualitative Research 20, no. 3 (2019): 340–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1468794119874599.
Full textAbstract:
This article demonstrates the significance of engaging with whiteness as a key dimension of difference shaping research in multi-faceted ways. I critically reflect on a research project that included interviews with Muslim men in Rotherham, a northern English town that had experienced a child sexual exploitation crisis involving Pakistani Muslim men. It raised significant methodological and epistemological issues regarding my position in the research, as a white female researcher, and my relationships with local Pakistani Muslim men and women. I highlight the fluidity of my insider–outsider position through exploring political and ethical dilemmas involved in carrying out the research and structural and experiential aspects of researcher subjectivity. I show how being white both facilitated and obstructed the research as I steered my way through a highly sensitive set of circumstances and how engaging with whiteness is key in democratising research and shedding light on unequal power relations in knowledge production.
47
Alamri, Wafaa Abdullah. "Effectiveness of Qualitative Research Methods: Interviews and Diaries." International Journal of English and Cultural Studies 2, no. 1 (2019): 65. http://dx.doi.org/10.11114/ijecs.v2i1.4302.
Full textAbstract:
The present study aims to explore the effectiveness of qualitative research methods. The qualitative research method has been opted after a thorough literature examination. The concept of triangulation and the process of multi-method qualitative research on error correction and students’ motivation were also examined. The results discovered more about the participants as he or she reads their diaries containing their detailed opinions and feelings. Subjectivity is another remarkable feature of diaries for learners to improve their writing skills and to use diverse vocabulary to express their views and emotions. Reviewing the information within a diary helps people to judge their behaviour and others, towards certain events. It was depicted that the triangulation method assists to have a more in-depth understanding of the recorded entries in the diaries by using semi-structured interviews. Both approaches were found to comprise of advantages and disadvantage, where the selection is based on the nature of the study and the understanding of the researcher. The results of the present study help guide the researcher in determining the specific choice of study.
48
Chin, Roger J. "Examining teamwork and leadership in the fields of public administration, leadership, and management." Team Performance Management: An International Journal 21, no. 3/4 (2015): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/tpm-07-2014-0037.
Full textAbstract:
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a systematic review of papers in ten top scholarly journals to determine their overall examination of leadership in teams and to identify which models of teamwork and leadership have been most explored by researchers. Design/methodology/approach – This paper reaches its findings through content analysis of 80 journal papers published in top academic journals from 1999 through 2012. Coding based on categories of teams, leadership and leadership styles conformed to forced choice and latent coding; two independent reviewers managed the subjectivity of the coding. Findings – Sixty per cent of the papers studied explored a group of workers whose teamwork was expected to be permanent, which receives a strong direction from a designated leader; almost that many (58.75 per cent) explored a group working with formal leadership by the worker’s supervisor; almost 50 per cent of papers explored leadership that combined two or more leadership styles simultaneously. This heavy concentration of the literature in a few areas suggests that research on other types of teamwork and leadership is minimal. Research limitations/implications – This particular research utilized the latent coding method of content analysis and forced choice in the selections. Even though content analysis has many strengths, the latent coding method of content analysis and forced choice selections require the researcher to examine the overall content to determine whether certain variables were present or absent. After the examination of the overall content, a subjective interpretation of the data is needed from the researcher. Other researchers that look at the same data may interpret the data differently. Practical implications – This research provides researchers, academics and practitioners with a comprehensive analysis on teamwork and leadership. The extensive investigation presents a pivotal starting point for further developments in this emerging area. The content analysis found a proliferation of diverse organizations utilizing teamwork, and this subject should be researched more vigorously. As organizations continue to embrace, pursue and promote teamwork, understanding the current state of the field will assist in having better understanding on how to develop effective teams. Originality/value – This paper contributes to the field by creating taxonomy to categorize the types of leaders and teams and presenting an explanation on the distinction between traditional and horizontal style of leadership. In identifying major trends in the existent literature, this examination provides valuable information for researchers.
49
Anugrah, Asep. "Ideological Fantasy of an Indonesian Absurdist in Danarto’s Short Story Godlob." International Journal of Management, Entrepreneurship, Social Science and Humanities 2, no. 1 (2019): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31098/ijmesh.v2i1.8.
Full textAbstract:
Reasoning about ideological criticism through literary work can be seen from how the literary work represents the ideology of the author as a critical form of social dominated ideology. The matter is when the criticism exactly shows paradox with what the author delivered, so the type of ideological criticism has been described by the author with real literary work which uses language as a medium. Therefore, the author's subjectivity of literary work is just symbolization which forms as post-ideology and it is termed by Žižek as cynicism which only appears on the level of ideological fantasy. This matter is applied by the researcher to analyze Danarto’s short story Godlob. This research focuses on Danarto’s ideology which is offered as radical acts by the characters. This research method leads to textual and objective analysis to detect radical action in Godlob Short Story. The result of the textual analysis is presented with the subjectivity of the author, which produces harmony as well as the paradox of radical action. This is what described in the discourse of Danarto's short story Godlob about; (1) how the radical actions of the characters are depicted in the Godlob short story, and (2) how ideological fantasies are generated through the encounter of both literary subjects in the Godlob short story. The goal is to see that ideological criticism through literary works is not only through the phenomenon but also through the reality itself. In other words, by analyzing radical action textually and then confronted with the author's subjectivity, the paradox of ideological criticism can be embedded in the discourse of this study. Based on the analysis, literary works as a criticism shows how ideological fantasy comes as a result of the cynicism of the author. Danarto seemed to be immersed in an ideology that he criticized in his work.
50
Kolozova et al., Katerina. "Q&A Session Following the Lecture: Marxism without Philosophy and Its Feminist Implications: The Problem of Subjectivity Centered Socialist Projects." Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture 17, no. 2-3 (2020): 48–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.51151/identities.v17i2-3.470.
Full textAbstract:
Author(s): Katerina Kolozova et al.
 Title (English): Q&A session following the lecture: Marxism without Philosophy and Its Feminist Implications: The Problem of Subjectivity Centered Socialist Projects
 Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020)
 Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje
 Page Range: 48-50
 Page Count: 3
 Citation (English): Katerina Kolozova et al., “Q&A session following the lecture: Marxism without Philosophy and Its Feminist Implications: The Problem of Subjectivity Centered Socialist Projects,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 2-3 (Winter 2020): 48-50.
 Author Biography
 Katerina Kolozova, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje
 Dr. Katerina Kolozova is senior researcher and full professor at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Skopje. At the Institute, she teaches policy studies, political philosophy and gender studies. She is also a professor of philosophy of law at the doctoral school of the University American College, Skopje. At the Faculty of Media and Communication, Belgrade, she teaches contemporary political philosophy. She was a visiting scholar at the Department of Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkley in 2009, under the peer supervision of Prof. Judith Butler. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the New Centre for Research and Practice – Seattle, WA. Kolozova is the first co-director and founder of the Regional Network for Gender and Women’s Studies in Southeast Europe (2004). Her most recent monograph is Capitalism’s Holocaust of Animals: A Non-Marxist Critique of Capital, Philosophy and Patriarchy published by Bloomsbury Academic, UK in 2019, whereas Cut of the Real: Subjectivity in Poststructuralist Philosophy, published by Columbia University Press, NY in 2014, remains her most cited book.