Grounding Reflexivity in a Qualitative Study on Love With Involved Fathers

Macht, Alexandra

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“…The methodological framework used to design the research was a socio-constructionist one, emphasizing the importance of language in producing the social reality of individuals, and thereby focused on the creation of social actors' emotional experiences through how they communicate and relate to each other (Burkitt, 2014). The process of data collection and analysis was designed according to a grounded analysis framework (Charmaz, 2013), and discussed at length elsewhere (Macht, 2018). In spite of its useful inductive approach which allowed me to stay close to the participants' data, there were some obstacles in achieving such an analysis, due to a pre-existing way of thinking about my data influenced by my readings and an ongoing reflexive analysis.…”

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Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers

Macht

2020

Families, Relationships and Societies

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Romantic love has been conceptualised as an emotional resource that promotes consumerism, by deeply affecting the creation of the modern self (Illouz, 2012). Simultaneously, both research and media discourses present the modern ‘good’ father’s role as one of enhanced intimacy (Dermott, 2008), and one in which fathers’ experiences of paternal love are routinely overlooked. I argue that paternal love as a different form of love than romantic love can resist commodification to a certain extent. Based on data from 47 qualitative interviews with Scottish and Romanian fathers, I argue that involved fathers have an ambivalent relationship to consumerism. Far from uniformly adopting it, data reveal that fathers resist it by focusing on the emotional value of gifts and developing their children’s warmth and confidence (încredere in sine).1 This happens in a social context where fathers shift emotionally between love and stoicism as they flexibly adopt either an intimate or provider role according to different contexts. Exploring paternal love is important in understanding how fathers, in relation to their children, not only participate but can also resist the commodification of their intimate lives, and can contest the general discourse of the commodification of love.

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Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers

Macht

2020

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“…For an in-depth description of how I employed Charmaz's grounded theory and the challenges I faced, seeMacht (2018aMacht ( , 2019a.…”

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The Role of Love and Children’s Agency in Improving Fathers’ Wellbeing

Macht¹

2021

Engaged Fatherhood for Men, Families and Gender Equality

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This chapter focuses on father-child wellbeing arguing that fathers are emotionally transformed by having a child and that children have a beneficial influence on father’s health and positive engagement in work. Previous research described how involved fatherhood offers men the opportunity to resist practices of risk-taking, denial of treatment, expression of anger, which are harmful to their health. However, studies on the relationship between fathers and children often overlook the mutual beneficial effects that these family members have on each other. Based on findings from 47 qualitative interviews and 6 observations with Scottish and Romanian involved fathers and their children, I show how children were described by fathers as re-energizing them for work and helping them let go of negative health habits, such as smoking, drugs, and reckless driving. Fathers in turn, adopted a long-term perspective for their health and wellbeing brought on by planning for the future. Conclusively, children seem to play an important role in counteracting the toxic aspects of masculinity, as children were described as helping fathers shift emotionally from stoicism and control to increased nurturance and emotional openness, thereby affecting their wellbeing in positive ways.

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Changing Fathers and Changing Emotional Selves

Macht

2019

Fatherhood and Love

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Grounding Reflexivity in a Qualitative Study on Love With Involved Fathers

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Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers

Resisting the commodification of intimate life? Paternal love, emotional bordering and narratives of ambivalent family consumerism from Scottish and Romanian fathers

The Role of Love and Children’s Agency in Improving Fathers’ Wellbeing

Changing Fathers and Changing Emotional Selves

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