Abstract:The introduction to this special issue addresses the production of intimacy in the labour of research. It explores the sensory, emotional and affective relations which form an integral, if often invisible, part of the process through which researchers engage with, produce, understand and translate `research'. The article argues that these processes inform the making of knowledge, shape power relations and enable or constrain the practical negotiation of ethical problems. These issues are not, however, often fo… Show more
“…Notably, they contend that current social scientific methods 'do not resonate well with important reality enactments' as they deal poorly with increasingly important aspects of everyday life, for example, 'the fleeting', 'the sensory' and 'the emotional'. Similarly, Fraser and Puwar (2008) note that social science researchers in debates about methods and methodology rarely consider how the sensory, emotional and affective relations we develop with our research material shape the making of knowledge. The importance of affects and emotions have also been noted in methodological discussions in ethnographic and anthropological research (cf.…”
Section: Attachment and Movement -To Be Shaped By The Contact With Otmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our aim is to foreground aspects of the production of data and research that are often edited out of research projects (cf. Fraser and Puwar, 2008), for example, when studying institutional interaction. By what is edited out we mean all acts, affects, relations and positions happening during fieldwork.…”
This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground aspects of the production of data and research that are often edited out of the research process. In so doing, we argue that the production of data would not be possible without the active and affective collaboration of all parties involved in home visits. Thus, the article scrutinizes in detail the efforts made by different parties, such as researchers, clients and workers to do and produce data. While we study an atypical setting of institutional interaction, we contend that affects and affective relations gain particular importance in the home.
“…Notably, they contend that current social scientific methods 'do not resonate well with important reality enactments' as they deal poorly with increasingly important aspects of everyday life, for example, 'the fleeting', 'the sensory' and 'the emotional'. Similarly, Fraser and Puwar (2008) note that social science researchers in debates about methods and methodology rarely consider how the sensory, emotional and affective relations we develop with our research material shape the making of knowledge. The importance of affects and emotions have also been noted in methodological discussions in ethnographic and anthropological research (cf.…”
Section: Attachment and Movement -To Be Shaped By The Contact With Otmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Our aim is to foreground aspects of the production of data and research that are often edited out of research projects (cf. Fraser and Puwar, 2008), for example, when studying institutional interaction. By what is edited out we mean all acts, affects, relations and positions happening during fieldwork.…”
This article is concerned with the doing and production of data. We ask how data are made in intimate spaces such as the home in collaboration with the different parties involved in home-based care and services. The article builds on ethnographic field notes from 73 home visits, in the context of home-based mental health, substance abuse and social care for adults in Finland and Sweden. Drawing on affect theory, the article aims to foreground aspects of the production of data and research that are often edited out of the research process. In so doing, we argue that the production of data would not be possible without the active and affective collaboration of all parties involved in home visits. Thus, the article scrutinizes in detail the efforts made by different parties, such as researchers, clients and workers to do and produce data. While we study an atypical setting of institutional interaction, we contend that affects and affective relations gain particular importance in the home.
“…Meanwhile, intimacy, affectivity, and emotions have become increasingly popular fields of study in their own right (e.g., Ahmed, 2004Ahmed, , 2010Berlant, 2000Berlant, , 2008Clough & Halley, 2007;Cvetkovich, 2003;Jamieson, 1998;Massumi, 2002). As part of this burgeoning field, the particular methodological challenges of dealing with intimate situations in research, or how best to research particular affects, or how to include the personal have also been discussed (e.g., Fraser & Puwar, 2008;Pink, 2009;Stage & Knudsen, 2015). This body of work has highlighted the methodological challenges and opportunities for researching practices of intimacy generally, but lacks specific focus on the methodological challenges related to intimacies as they occur in/with new media.…”
Researching intimacies and new media encompasses a wide variety of intersecting practices and relationships. This special issue presents contributions from researchers who are investigating practices of intimacy mediated either wholly or in part through new media in which a variety of different methodological opportunities and challenges are highlighted and discussed. Existing research has addressed different combinations of new media, intimacy, and methodology, but there remains space for a dedicated focus on the ways in which these areas are interrelated and entangled. The articles in this special issue build up a conversation around this particular intersection from a range of directions, from reflections on specific technological devices/apps and their promotion of particular forms of intimacies that may lead to (dis)comfort and (dis)connection, to the intimate-and sometimes risky-investments in research processes and fieldwork, as well as the ethical frameworks and decision-making processes guiding the research.
“…But whilst writing the 2011 chapter, I began to experience what Fraser and Puwar (, p. 10) describe as follows:we take what are often intense private moments of exchange into the public realm in the name of a scholarly ‘good’. The dissemination of primary data to a wider public can be plagued with a sense of betrayal and disloyalty.I found this ‘sense of betrayal and disloyalty’ especially profound when using data from Judith about the breakdown of her relationship with her girlfriend and her subsequent online search for a male partner ‘because I couldn't stand the thought of the closeness you get with another woman.…”
Section: From ‘Private’ To ‘Public’mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…They also refer to the guilt researchers may feel ‘in association with “using” participants or becoming excited by “juicy” data at the expense of the participants’ feelings’ (p. 6). And Fraser and Puwar (, p. 5), following Bourdieu, identify the associated risk of exposing respondents to readers’ ‘voyeuristic gaze’, a gaze which may not do justice to their experiences and feelings. This is particularly significant for me because, like FitzGerald, the subject matter of my research projects was sensitive to begin with.…”
Scholarship on the ethical complexities resulting from friendships which develop with respondents during qualitative data collection is well established. There has also been consideration of the ethics of researching existing friends across various disciplines. But, although management and organization scholars use convenience samples of the latter kind in qualitative research, there is virtually no discussion in our field of the ethical implications. In seeking to rectify this, I draw on my
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