Abstract:Research at multiple sites and "talking across worlds" have generally been important in feminist and geographic scholarship. Some studies have examined methodological dilemmas endemic to research involving multiple locations. Other studies have drawn on multi-sited research including perspectives of participants and researchers beyond a single site. Most of these studies have explored how groups, individuals and discourses move between local and transnational spaces. However, evidence on how such methodologies… Show more
“…In multi‐sited ethnography, the researcher moves between and betwixt sites of observation and participation, noting and calling into question dichotomies such as the “local” and the “global”, the “lifeworld” and the “system” (Marcus, 1995, p. 95). At the core of multi‐sited ethnographic research is the tracing of social formations across multiple sites of activity; following connections, associations and putative relations that can enhance a sense of connectivity between sites, to be sure, but that can also lead to the active construction of borders and boundaries and the fulmination of difference (Jokela‐Pansini, 2019). Multi‐sited ethnographies thus can be argued to define their objects of study as the material linkages between sites, and their particular form and effect as manifest in the circulation of an object or idea, for example, but also in the transformation of a person or object's capacity for actions when participating in that circulation, as discussed extensively in the edited collection on multi‐sited ethnography by Falzon (2009).…”
Section: A Methodology For the Use Of Mind Maps To Analyse Recorded I...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 2009 collection Multi ‐ sited ethnography : Theory , praxis and locality in contemporary research , edited by Mark‐Anthony Falzon, provides a rich set of critical reflections and practical examples for researching social formations spanning numerous localities, including a chapter focused on “Localizing climate change: a multi‐sited approach” (Krauss, 2009), a topic core to Geography and the concept of multi‐sited ethnography. In addition, Jokela‐Pansini (2019) highlights the value of multi‐sited research in improving understanding of transnational concepts, in this case “women human rights defenders” by arguing that: Conducting collaborative and participatory research at multiple sites helped to break hierarchies and to include multiple perspectives in the research process. It made us –the participants, research collaborators and me– together critically view the concept and think about other ways to frame the same issues.…”
Section: The Value Of Mind Maps In Qualitative Data Collection and An...mentioning
Typically, interviews are transcribed to enable coding and analysis of the data to establish the research findings. However, where discourse is not central, this article argues that mind mapping is a valuable tool to identify relationships and differences across large datasets. This is particularly useful for large‐scale research projects that may also be interdisciplinary and/or multi‐sited where the ability to transcribe and analyse audio‐recordings is often a time‐intensive process for the researcher and costly if outsourced. Additionally, there are challenges to analysing vast amounts of text into something meaningful. This article first reviews what mind maps are, and how they work. Second it explores the value of mind maps in qualitative data collection and analysis, particularly in the role of transcription. Third, using research conducted on volcano alert level systems, a methodology using mind maps to analyse interview recording is established. Fourth, the pros and cons of mind maps and potential application in other qualitative research methods and in different academic fields is discussed. Findings demonstrate that mind maps can be highly time beneficial providing a close and intimate reading of the data and enabling the researcher to make sense of the emerging themes, particularly for large data sets typically collected through multi‐sited research, or smaller research projects with limited resources.
“…In multi‐sited ethnography, the researcher moves between and betwixt sites of observation and participation, noting and calling into question dichotomies such as the “local” and the “global”, the “lifeworld” and the “system” (Marcus, 1995, p. 95). At the core of multi‐sited ethnographic research is the tracing of social formations across multiple sites of activity; following connections, associations and putative relations that can enhance a sense of connectivity between sites, to be sure, but that can also lead to the active construction of borders and boundaries and the fulmination of difference (Jokela‐Pansini, 2019). Multi‐sited ethnographies thus can be argued to define their objects of study as the material linkages between sites, and their particular form and effect as manifest in the circulation of an object or idea, for example, but also in the transformation of a person or object's capacity for actions when participating in that circulation, as discussed extensively in the edited collection on multi‐sited ethnography by Falzon (2009).…”
Section: A Methodology For the Use Of Mind Maps To Analyse Recorded I...mentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The 2009 collection Multi ‐ sited ethnography : Theory , praxis and locality in contemporary research , edited by Mark‐Anthony Falzon, provides a rich set of critical reflections and practical examples for researching social formations spanning numerous localities, including a chapter focused on “Localizing climate change: a multi‐sited approach” (Krauss, 2009), a topic core to Geography and the concept of multi‐sited ethnography. In addition, Jokela‐Pansini (2019) highlights the value of multi‐sited research in improving understanding of transnational concepts, in this case “women human rights defenders” by arguing that: Conducting collaborative and participatory research at multiple sites helped to break hierarchies and to include multiple perspectives in the research process. It made us –the participants, research collaborators and me– together critically view the concept and think about other ways to frame the same issues.…”
Section: The Value Of Mind Maps In Qualitative Data Collection and An...mentioning
Typically, interviews are transcribed to enable coding and analysis of the data to establish the research findings. However, where discourse is not central, this article argues that mind mapping is a valuable tool to identify relationships and differences across large datasets. This is particularly useful for large‐scale research projects that may also be interdisciplinary and/or multi‐sited where the ability to transcribe and analyse audio‐recordings is often a time‐intensive process for the researcher and costly if outsourced. Additionally, there are challenges to analysing vast amounts of text into something meaningful. This article first reviews what mind maps are, and how they work. Second it explores the value of mind maps in qualitative data collection and analysis, particularly in the role of transcription. Third, using research conducted on volcano alert level systems, a methodology using mind maps to analyse interview recording is established. Fourth, the pros and cons of mind maps and potential application in other qualitative research methods and in different academic fields is discussed. Findings demonstrate that mind maps can be highly time beneficial providing a close and intimate reading of the data and enabling the researcher to make sense of the emerging themes, particularly for large data sets typically collected through multi‐sited research, or smaller research projects with limited resources.
“…Если мы говорим о «насилии отсроченного разрушения, рассредоточенном в пространстве и времени» (Nixon, 2011: 2), то с каких методологических позиций подобную размытость насилия должны изучать географы? Они очень долго исследовали и внесли важный вклад в анализ феноменов, рассеянных в пространстве, проводя глобальные (Burawoy, 2000) и многообъектные (Marcus, 1995) этнографические исследования и разрабатывая их методики (Jokela-Pansini, 2018;Roy, 2012;Thieme, 2008;Verne, 2012). Феномены, размытые во времени, намного реже встречаются в этнографической литературе, причем как в дисциплинарных границах географии, так и за ее пределами.…”
ch. The article considers the nexus of slow violence as a concept, research focus and problem-on the one hand, and the practices and politics of ethnographic fieldwork and writing-on the other hand. It highlights two aspects; first, the epistemological alliances between researchers and research participants which confront forms of violence that as if remain partly elusive to both sides; second, the multi-temporal ethnographies that work through drawn-out and complex timescapes of violence by tracing cross-temporal connections. The notions of fieldwork are still defined mainly in spatial terms, and so the issue of slow violence is an important reminder to pay more attention to the temporal dimension. The article demonstrates how rural dwellers make sense of complex changes and loss by using the ruins of disintegration as signifiers, and how researchers can draw on this in their analysis. It is based on the ethnographic research conducted in rural Russia which shows how the concept of slow violence helps to make sense of and to make visible the forms of loss and dispossession that often remain elusive in academic and public representations of the Russian countryside.
“…When we speak of a “violence of delayed destruction that is dispersed across time and space” (Nixon, 2011: 2), where do geographers stand, methodologically, to address such dispersion? They have long dealt with and much contributed to studying phenomena which are dispersed across space, for instance by conducting global (Burawoy, 2000) or multi-sited (Marcus, 1995) ethnographies and elaborating their methods (Jokela-Pansini, 2019; Roy, 2012; Thieme, 2008; Verne, 2012). Phenomena dispersed across time gain much less explicit attention in ethnography literatures, however, both within and beyond geography.…”
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This article explores the nexus of slow violence as a concept, research focus, and problem on the one hand, and the practices and politics of ethnographic fieldwork and writing on the other. I argue that paying more explicit attention to methodological challenges in conducting ethnographies of slow violence is both necessary and worthwhile. Ethnographies can animate the broader debates on slow violence, infuse them with new concepts and political urgencies, and relate them to new sites and problems. Conversely, the problem of slow violence can advance ethnographic debates and practices, even beyond ethnographies of slow violence in a narrower sense. I highlight two aspects. First, I explore epistemological alliances between researchers and research participants which confront forms of violence that at first remain partly elusive to both sides. Second, I argue for multi-temporal ethnographies which work through drawn-out and complex timescapes of violence and loss by tracing cross-temporal connections. Notions of fieldwork are still mainly defined in spatial terms, and so the problem of slow violence is an important reminder to pay more attention to temporal dimensions. I build this argument on ethnographic research conducted in rural Russia, and thus also show how the concept of slow violence helps to make sense of and to make visible those forms of loss and dispossession that often remain elusive in academic and public representations of the Russian countryside.
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