Conversational Heuristic as a Reflexive Method for Feminist Research

Díaz, Capitolina

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“…I interviewed the 22 respondents with qualitative in-depth interviews (Aull Davies, 2008;Diaz, 2002). The data collection and analysis partly used the inductive grounded theory approach (Glaser and Strauss, 1967).…”

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Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces

Plüss

2013

International Sociology

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This article puts forward the concept of ‘transnational positions’ as an important part of a new analytical framework to deconstruct and explain the inequalities that 22 Chinese transnational migrants – who had links to Singapore and who lived in New York – perceived they experienced when attempting to access resources in the transnational spaces they formed by living in several societies. Emphasis is on analyzing their experiences in New York and in Singapore. Transnational positions are the migrants’ subjective and retrospective accounts of their relations with people and institutions controlling access to desired resources in the different countries and places in which they lived. This new framework uses Bourdieu’s ideas of capital conversions to deconstruct and analyze the Chinese migrants’ transnational positions. The article shows that these positions express and reflect the migrants’ perceptions of their inequalities when they attempted to access resources in their transnational spaces, and that these inequalities are the intersections of cultural, social, economic, and political characteristics, with roots in different places, which the Chinese migrants saw as the opportunities and constraints with accessing resources in their transnational spaces. The relevance of this new analytical framework, and the data analysis, to explain cultural hybridity and cosmopolitanism are discussed.

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Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces

Plüss

2013

International Sociology

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“…To mitigate the negative effects of bias the ethnographer must make specific biases explicit and must have an open mind (Pellatt, 2003). The use of a self-reflexive research process not only provided new insights but also provided information about how the knowledge emerged (Diaz, 2002).…”

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“…It is recognized that the interview will be affected and shaped by the interaction between both interview participants (King, 1992). The interaction between the interviewer and the interviewee not only determines what meanings emerge but also moves the meanings forward and leads to new meanings (Diaz, 2002). This process is referred to as reflexive heuristics and "is based on the idea that meanings are created in the very process of verbalizing experiences or observing other people's lives" (Diaz, 2002, p. 253).…”

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Using an ethnographic case study approach to identify socio‐cultural discourse

Gallant¹

2008

Education, Business and Society: Contemporary Middle Eastern Issues

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to describe a research methodology that was used to identify dominant socio-cultural discourse using a feminist post-structural lens. Design/methodology/approach -Based on a literature-based study focusing on research methodology and theoretical frameworks, the conduct of an ethnographic case study is described in detail. A discussion of the reporting and analysis of the data is also included. Findings -The study indicates that using an ethnographic case study approach is a very effective tool for identifying dominant socio-cultural discourses. This in turn can lead to greater emancipation for women through discourse analysis and re-positioning.Research limitations/implications -This paper presents a focused literature study and contains a description of an effective research methodology for specific purposes. It may be of use to others interested in conducting similar types of research. Practical implications -The study indicates that using unstructured interviews and a narrative reporting technique is a valuable way to collect data about socio-cultural discourses in an Arabic context. The importance of the position, power, and reflexivity of the interviewer is also explored. In addition, the study suggests that successful feminist movements should be gradual and should take into account societal discourses to allow women to gain emancipatory action through re-positioning themselves within their societal discourses. Originality/value -The paper is one of the few attempting to describe an ethnographic case study approach with a feminist, post-structuralist view in an Arab context.

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“…But I doubt that in our wildest dreams we ever imagined we would have to reinvent both science and theorizing itself to make sense of women's social experience. (Harding, 1996, p. 217) The contribution of feminism to social and health sciences was not limited to bringing previously hidden relations to the spotlight, or to unmasking partial conclusions; the way we research was also put into question (Díaz, 2002).…”

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The science of difference. The invisibility of women in health sciences

Valls

2016

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Conversational Heuristic as a Reflexive Method for Feminist Research

Cited by 7 publications

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Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces

Chinese migrants in New York: Explaining inequalities with transnational positions and capital conversions in transnational spaces

Using an ethnographic case study approach to identify socio‐cultural discourse

The science of difference. The invisibility of women in health sciences

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