Getting Beyond the “God Trick”: Toward Service Research

Trauger, Amy; Fluri, Jennifer L.

doi:10.1080/00330124.2012.705738

Cited by 8 publications

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“…In contemporary work, they point to projects such as the 'communiversity', which uses participatory action research to facilitate joint action by academics and community members (kinpaisby, 2008), or their own work through a university-community alliance, Citizens UK. The coalitional and engaged nature of this process is part of what Derickson and Routledge (2015) call 'resourcing' disempowered groups as part of scholar-activism and is also evident in Trauger and Fluri's (2014) description of service research.…”

Section: Pragmatismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework

Shannon

Hankins

Shelton

et al. 2020

Progress in Human Geography

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Community geography is a growing subfield that provides a framework for relevant and engaged scholarship. In this paper, we define community geography as a form of research praxis, one that involves academic and public scholars with the goal of co-produced and mutually-beneficial knowledge. Community geography draws from a pragmatist model of inquiry, one that views communities as emergent through a recursive process of problem definition and social action. We situate the growth of community geography programs as rooted in two overlapping but distinct traditions: disciplinary development of participatory methodologies and institutional traditions of community engagement in American higher education. We then trace the historical development of these programs, identifying common themes and outlining several challenges that community geographers should prioritize as this subfield continues to grow.

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Section: Pragmatismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework

Shannon

Hankins

Shelton

et al. 2020

Progress in Human Geography

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“…Scholarship based upon experiential knowledge privileges a partial, situated, and consciously subjective lens, blurring conventional distinctions between knowing and doing, "the fi eld" and everyday life (Haraway 1988;Katz 1994;Trauger and Fluri 2014). Such an orientation allows for new insights, as well as the opportunity to bring into view phenomena that may otherwise remain obscured (Beban and Schoenberger 2019;Hiemstra 2017;Trauger and Fluri 2014). Th e role of anti-migrant hostility in gatekeeping by social workers has received little scrutiny, a silence facilitated by the nature of the interaction-it happens largely behind closed doors and is experienced by a population whose precarious status makes them unlikely to complain.…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Re/Making Immigration Policy through Practice

Dennler¹

2018

Migration and Society

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Refused asylum seekers living in the UK face hostility and legal restrictions on the basis of immigration status that limit access to statutory support, employment, and social goods. Working at a non-profit organization that offered an advice service for refused asylum seekers, I observed how the experiences of refused asylum seekers are constituted not simply by restrictions within immigration law, but rather by the ways in which laws are perceived and implemented by a wide range of actors. I argue that the legal consciousness of social workers hostile to refused asylum seekers plays an important role in making policy through practice. I show that social workers prioritized immigration enforcement over other legal obligations, thereby amplifying the meaning of immigration status and deepening the marginalization of refused asylum seekers.

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“…Both questions provide a challenge in terms of how we can know anything when we all have unique subjective experiences. Trauger and Fluri (2014) apply the work of Haraway (1988) to critique what she calls the "God trick." The "God trick" epistemology asserts that truth or knowledge is there to be uncovered or discovered, with the researcher positioning themselves above, or apart, from that which they research.…”

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“…Trauger and Fluri (2014) apply the work of Haraway (1988) to critique what she calls the “God trick.” The “God trick” epistemology asserts that truth or knowledge is there to be uncovered or discovered, with the researcher positioning themselves above, or apart, from that which they research. Trauger and Fluri (2014, p. 33) emphasize that intersubjectivity and reflexivity can facilitate knowledge construction, as we “possess and construct knowledge throughout the research project.” Thus, through collaboration, intersubjectivity, and reflexivity we have co-constructed knowledge through this research.…”

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“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises

Rutter

Hasan

Pilson

et al. 2021

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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Unpacking our experiences as trainee researchers navigating a global pandemic; in this research four researchers identify and interpret otherwise individual experiences through a collective lens. These shared responses are collated and understood through the multivocal method of what we term a “feminst collaborative auto-ethnography.” Relational ethics using a praxis of care, in line with feminist epistemology underpin the systematic analysis of our shared experiences to enhance intersubjectivity and the co-construction of knowledge. Individual reflections and collaborative sessions were utilized to immerse ourselves both situationally and critically into the pool of data. Concurrently creating and analyzing our collaborative inquiry. We utilized mind maps, probing, and reflexivity to engage with our individual and shared social, emotional, and structural challenges. Through analysis of the collaborative data we identified that we had all developed safety seeking strategies, and that a focused research method not only provided direction, but provided a support network. The researchers found that collaborative autoethnography is a useful and holistic method of understanding and navigating adversities in the PhD process, allowing for us to interpret multiple levels of adversity and support-strategies during Covid-19 times.

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Getting Beyond the “God Trick”: Toward Service Research

Cited by 8 publications

References 33 publications

Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework

Community geography: Toward a disciplinary framework

Re/Making Immigration Policy through Practice

“It’s the End of the PhD as We Know it, and We Feel Fine…Because Everything Is Fucked Anyway”: Utilizing Feminist Collaborative Autoethnography to Navigate Global Crises

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