Negotiating Insider and Outsider Identities in the Field: “Insider” in a Foreign Land; “Outsider” in One’s Own Land

Ergun, Ayça; Erdemir, Aykan

doi:10.1177/1525822x09349919

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“…Katyal and M. King or loyalties are crucial to the way in which an interviewer is perceived' (Powney and Watts 1987, 40). A number of factors have been found to influence such interactions, including gender, race and ethnicity, age, religious background (see Ergun and Erdemir 2010), and even the researcher's motivation for conducting the research. The inherent authority invested in our positions could potentially have created situations that led to confirmation and/or affirmation biases.…”

Section: Challenges In Research Methodologymentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Outsiderness’ and ‘insiderness’ in a Confucian society: complexity of contexts

Katyal

King

2011

Comparative Education

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This paper addresses the influence of CHC on how the insider/outsider distinction is drawn and what consequences follow for the conduct of research. The paper outlines the methodological complexities faced by us whilst conducting our respective research projects in Hong Kong. In the studies reported in this paper we, the researchers, were insiders at one level as both of us have a degree of familiarity with Hong Kong being residents of the city. We were also insiders on a professional level in the contexts under study. However being ethnically nonChinese positioned us as outsiders. Additionally, our Western-trained research selves accepted certain normative paradigms, whilst our own personal ethnocentricities tended to question these self-same paradigms. In sum, the research context for us assumed hues in accordance with the lens that we were using for viewing our data concurrently and concomitantly and this we argue has much to do with the research methodologies that we used in the studies. IntroductionThis paper charts a critical look at our journey as non-Chinese researchers conducting two separate research projects in the context of Hong Kong. One of us (Researcher A) is an Indian female and the other (Researcher B) is a white American male. In the studies reported in this paper we were insiders at one level as both of us have a degree of familiarity with Hong Kong being residents of the city. We were also insiders on a professional level in the contexts under study. However being ethnically non-Chinese positioned us as outsiders. Additionally, our Western-trained research selves accepted certain normative paradigms, whilst our own personal ethno-centricities tended to question these self-same paradigms. In sum, the research context for us assumed hues in accordance with the lens that we were using for viewing our data concurrently and concomitantly and this we argue has much to do with the research methodologies that we used in the studies.

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Section: Challenges In Research Methodologymentioning

confidence: 98%

‘Outsiderness’ and ‘insiderness’ in a Confucian society: complexity of contexts

Katyal

King

2011

Comparative Education

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“…Since participants can sometimes feel uncomfortable with disclosing their true identities and real-life stories to insiders, the researcher's position as an outsider can sometimes be seen as an advantage to knowledge generation (Ergun & Erdemir, 2010). Yet, in our research contexts, this outsider status created multiple vulnerabilities, physical jeopardy being paramount but also feelings of frustration and fear.…”

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Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Jafari

Dunnett

Hamilton

et al. 2013

Journal of Marketing Management

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Research involving vulnerable consumer populations is on the increase, and understanding the social consequences of consumption within different marketing contexts has become a common theme across Consumer Culture Theory, transformative consumer research, and critical marketing. Yet the diverse difficulties faced by researchers who investigate consumer vulnerability have not been sufficiently addressed. In line with the need for greater reflexivity in research, this paper reflects on our own research experiences, and highlights the complexities associated with conducting research on sensitive topics in challenging contexts. With reference to such experiences, we illustrate the phenomenon of researcher vulnerability and discuss its implications for knowledge generation within the marketing domain.

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“…To access information and interact with the community during research fieldwork, "the degree of a scholar's insiderness, or the degree to which scholars manage to overcome their outsiderness, is believed to determine easy access to informants, reliability of collected data, and the success of the fieldwork" [17]. In this context, the researcher's positionality is not static.…”

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Gender and Participation

Hussen

Bidwell

Rey-Moreno

et al. 2016

Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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This paper unveils the complexity of gender dynamics by reflecting on lessons learned in Zenzeleni Networks and provides a different perspective to notions of "participation" by asking "who participates and how?" The paper employs a feminist conceptual framework, particularly social constructionist theory and intersectionality, to understand women's participation and experience, analyzing multi-layered and intersecting structural injustices that marginalize women's choices, empowerment, scope for agency, and sense of ownership. In-depth interviews and focus group discussions gathered information from women living in Mankosi and women who are working for Zenzeleni Networks, respectively. Results show that gendered power dynamics of the community were reproduced within Zenzeleni Networks. Although women play a key role in the everyday operationalization of Zenzeleni Networks, their role has been considered part of their domestic duties, which results in misrecognition and underrepresentation of their work.

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Negotiating Insider and Outsider Identities in the Field: “Insider” in a Foreign Land; “Outsider” in One’s Own Land

Cited by 126 publications

References 30 publications

‘Outsiderness’ and ‘insiderness’ in a Confucian society: complexity of contexts

‘Outsiderness’ and ‘insiderness’ in a Confucian society: complexity of contexts

Exploring researcher vulnerability: Contexts, complications, and conceptualisation

Gender and Participation

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