Challenges for Feminist Research: Contested Stories, Dominant Narratives and Narrative Frameworks

Woodiwiss, Jo

doi:10.1057/978-1-137-48568-7_2

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“…Whereas feminist research has always held that it is women's voices in particular that must be heard (Presser, 2005), we have expanded this maxim to include all marginalised voices, such that it is more in line with both feminist theory and TIC. Participants' voices in narrative feminist studies as well as trauma-informed studies are encouraged, not just in terms of content, but also in terms of how they deliver the content (Woodiwiss, 2017). In fact, with narrative feminist research methods, the participants are empowered to 'co-create' meaning with the researcher, as opposed to the researcher making meaning for the participants (Fraser and MacDougall, 2017).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Using feminist theory as a research method in the examination of trauma-informed care in a non-profit organisation

Hardner

Wolf

2022

Voluntary Sector Review

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The purpose of this qualitative study was to gather information about the experiences of staff at a non-profit agency in the United States as the organisation transitioned towards the implementation of trauma-informed care (TIC). In non-profit organisations, TIC (that is, safety, trustworthiness, choice, collaboration and empowerment) enhances the wellbeing of employees and clients by acknowledging the impact of trauma and reducing the risk of retraumatisation. Feminist theory was utilised to inform this study to empower participants to voice their experiences and to analyse the organisation’s commitment to the principles of TIC. Four focus groups were conducted (N = 17 participants in total) and all participants reported that the organisational culture was moving in a positive direction. Even in the early stages of the implementation of TIC, management reported feeling empowered and supported by the organisation; however, many participants noted that significant work will need to continue to enhance the emotional safety and empowerment of direct-line workers.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

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Using feminist theory as a research method in the examination of trauma-informed care in a non-profit organisation

Hardner

Wolf

2022

Voluntary Sector Review

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“…The independently verifiable nature of video or image evidence, which decouples evidence of the violation from witnesses' accounts, can play a powerful role in protecting against the uncritical reproduction of accepted or dominant narratives, which is an issue that can arise in research with human subjects (Gandsman 2013;Woodiwiss 2017). Conversely, however, some investigators reported that widely disseminated pieces of evidence sometimes shaped witnesses' accounts and impressions of what they saw, what they thought was important, and, crucially, what they thought investigators wanted to hear.…”

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the Use of Open Source Research in UN Human Rights Investigations

Murray

McDermott

Koenig³

2022

Journal of Human Rights Practice

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Open source information, particularly digital open source information that is publicly available on the internet, plays an increasingly central role in the landscape of human rights investigations. This article provides a thorough analysis of how open source information is used in practice by UN human rights fact-finding missions, commissions of inquiry and other official human rights investigations. Combining data from semi-structured interviews carried out with investigators with specific experience in open source human rights investigations with a review of reports and other primary and secondary sources, it examines the utility of open source information to UN human rights investigative bodies. It posits that open source research can offer tremendous benefits in planning investigations, supplying lead evidence, and providing direct evidence of violations, thereby overcoming some of the access barriers that investigators face, and potentially giving voice to a wider range of perspectives. On the other hand, this article argues that open source investigations should be approached with a clear eye to their challenges and possible pitfalls. These include the gaps of open source information and the potential to silence already-marginalized communities through open source investigations, as well as the resource-intensive nature of these investigations, the danger that open source information can affect witnesses’ perceptions, and the risks posed by online disinformation. As open source research is likely to comprise an important component of the human rights investigator’s toolbox in the future, this article argues in favour of the institutional buy-in, resourcing, and methodological rigour that it deserves.

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“…Narrative and story stand out as critical for their role in creating a shared imagination (Girvan, 2017;Ingram et al, 2019;Wittmayer et al, 2019). They play a central role in cognition (Patterson and Monroe, 1998;Woodiwiss, 2017), given the ways in which narrative aids in sensemaking and constructing coherence through a type of social-psychological infrastructure (Paschen and Ison, 2014), helping to simplify cognitive tasks. Storytelling becomes essential to articulating ideas that are imagined-those distinct from what is actually perceived or open to sensory and lived experience.…”

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confidence: 99%

Imagination and transformations to sustainable and just futures

Moore

Milkoreit

2020

Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene

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The ability of individuals and groups to identify, assess, and pursue alternative possible futures is an essential component of their ability to deliberately and collectively respond to major sustainability challenges rather than experience unguided or forced change. Deliberately engaging in transformation processes inevitably requires imagination. We refer to imagination for transformations as interdependent cognitive and social processes that create representations of present and possible future states of the world that can inform public deliberation, policy, decision making, and behavior from the individual to the global scale. We contend that imagination is an essential capacity for securing ecological, social, economic, and cultural well-being in times of rapid and often unpredictable global change. We sketch an emerging interdisciplinary research agenda on imagination as a transformational capacity and its role in transformation processes, building on contributions to a special issue on this subject. We specifically focus on imagination in relationship to transformative agency, causation, and individual-collective dynamics. Our aim is to identify research questions and challenges that are most pressing with a view to supporting efforts of transformations toward sustainability.

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Challenges for Feminist Research: Contested Stories, Dominant Narratives and Narrative Frameworks

Cited by 18 publications

References 14 publications

Using feminist theory as a research method in the examination of trauma-informed care in a non-profit organisation

Using feminist theory as a research method in the examination of trauma-informed care in a non-profit organisation

Mapping the Use of Open Source Research in UN Human Rights Investigations

Imagination and transformations to sustainable and just futures

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