Poststructural Analysis: Analyzing Empirical Matter for New Meanings

Kaufmann, Jodi

doi:10.1177/1077800410392336

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“…Our current goal is to surface tensions, contradictions, and marginalized perspectives in the use of peer research in CBPR. Using Foucault's work to re-read and re-analyze data has proven useful for surfacing previously overlooked meaning in qualitative research ( Payne and Nicholls 2010 ; Kaufmann 2011 ).…”

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Governing through community allegiance: a qualitative examination of peer research in community-based participatory research

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Flicker

Roche

2013

Critical Public Health

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The disappointing results of many public health interventions have been attributed in part to the lack of meaningful community engagement in the planning, implementation, and evaluation of these initiatives. Community-based participatory research (CBPR) has emerged as an alternative research paradigm that directly involves community members in all aspects of the research process. Their involvement is often said to be an empowering experience that builds capacity. In this paper, we interrogate these assumptions, drawing on interview data from a qualitative study investigating the experiences of 18 peer researchers (PRs) recruited from nine CBPR studies in Toronto, Canada. These individuals brought to their respective projects experience of homelessness, living with HIV, being an immigrant or refugee, identifying as transgender, and of having a mental illness. The reflections of PRs are compared to those of other research team members collected in separate focus groups. Findings from these interviews are discussed with an attention to Foucault's concept of ‘governmentality’, and compared against popular community-based research principles developed by Israel and colleagues. While PRs spoke about participating in CBPR initiatives to share their experience and improve conditions for their communities, these emancipatory goals were often subsumed within corporatist research environments that limited participation. Overall, this study offers a much-needed theoretical engagement with this popular research approach and raises critical questions about the limits of community engagement in collaborative public health research.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Governing through community allegiance: a qualitative examination of peer research in community-based participatory research

Guţă

Flicker

Roche

2013

Critical Public Health

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“…This study is part of a bigger PhD project about power, knowledge and knowledge management in music festival organisations. Through taking a post-structuralist approach I aimed to understand festival staff members' perceptions and meanings of power and knowledge within the concepts available to them (Townley, 1993;Alvesson, 1996;Kaufmann, 2011). A reflexive ethnographic study was undertaken in order to understand these different meanings and changes in perception over the course of the festival life cycle.…”

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confidence: 99%

Power relations and the production of new knowledge within a Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project

Stadler

2013

Annals of Leisure Research

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Conflict during the creative development process of community cultural development projects is inevitable (Adam and Goldbard 2001), yet through the productive use of power (Foucault 1977, 1980, 1982) new knowledge can be created for the festival organization, the community, and individual participants. In this article I identify power/knowledge relations within the Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project Behind the Cane, a three-year project with the South Sea Islander community in Bowen, Queensland, Australia, through a narrative analysis of different stories that my participants told about the project. These stories emphasize strategic and disciplinary power during the creative development process of Behind the Cane, as well as the power of the story and the performance itself and what it meant to the local community and the festival organization. From these stories I explain how new knowledge was created within the community as well as the festival organization

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“…In that sense all qualitative research is abductive, with the reality of the studied phenomenon faced “in the field” entangling with the theoretical understanding of the phenomenon. After construction of data, a researcher is often driven to seek closure, stabilize meanings, or present truths (Kaufmann 2011 ). Bendix-Petersen ( 2013 ) rejects the dualism between construction of data and its analysis, arguing them to be entangled.…”

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Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements

Meriläinen

Koro‐Ljungberg

2021

Int J Disaster Risk Sci

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Disasters connected to natural hazards can at the same time be unfolding events, as well as structural phenomena with unequal disaster risk constructed over an extended timespan. Hence, in disaster studies, temporality and spatiality are central, yet often implicit, concepts employed to make sense of the disaster phenomena. In this article we explicitly focus on temporality and spatiality within qualitative disaster studies, particularly those containing ethnographic elements. We use Doreen Massey’s idea of space-time trajectories to analyze and illustrate how in qualitative disaster studies the trajectories of the disaster, research participants, and the researcher entangle in diverse ways. The focus is on how temporality and spatiality are present in the construction of data. The article is mainly conceptual, with illustrations drawn from empirical fieldwork on Valparaíso fire of 2014 in Chile. We interrogate how researchers’ sensitivity to temporality and spatiality challenges the conventional notions and practices of “data” in qualitative disaster studies. The focus in this article is on disaster studies, but it also offers methodological insights to other social sciences that strive to conduct research in the era of “Anthropocene,” with all its shifts and changes, the root causes of which have built over a long time.

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Poststructural Analysis: Analyzing Empirical Matter for New Meanings

Cited by 16 publications

References 12 publications

Governing through community allegiance: a qualitative examination of peer research in community-based participatory research

Governing through community allegiance: a qualitative examination of peer research in community-based participatory research

Power relations and the production of new knowledge within a Queensland Music Festival community cultural development project

Data, Disasters, and Space-Time Entanglements

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