Reading and Writing as Method: In Search of Trustworthy Texts

Yanow, Dvora; Schwartz‐Shea, Peregrine

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“…The thickness of description is an essential part of providing a reliable and valid account to the reader (Schwartz-Shea & Yanow 2009) and as such the theoretical contribution of this paper is supported by analysis published elsewhere (Anonymous, 2008;2012a;2012b).…”

Section: Planning the Built Environment Meaning And Historysupporting

confidence: 48%

The longue durée of community engagement: New applications of critical theory in planning research

Matthews

2012

Planning Theory

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Habermas" critical theory, and particularly his theory of communicative action, has been applied in the theory and practice of communicative planning. The concept of creating a public sphere in planning processes has been used as an "ought" that planners should seek to achieve to create a communicative rationality. Accepting some of the critique of communicative planning from an agonist and Foucauldian perspective, this paper presents a new application of Habermas" critical theory. Evidence is presented from community activists in two neighbourhoods of their ongoing reflection on the changes to their built environment over 20 years of regeneration. In this context, Habermas" theoretical work does explain the long-term discourse as the community moved towards a shared consensus on their neighbourhood. This is used to suggest that instead of looking for consensus in the tense conflicting of moments of initial engagement planners we should focus on the longue durée, and the Lifeworld of lived experience, where shared subjectivities over the built environment can develop.

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Section: Planning the Built Environment Meaning And Historysupporting

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The longue durée of community engagement: New applications of critical theory in planning research

Matthews

2012

Planning Theory

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“…But as those making meaning are also those being studied, this research entails layers of interpretation. Researchers’ truth claims, then, rest on the trustworthiness of their interpretations, and this rests on the systematicity of data generation and what might be called the “attitude of doubt”—of ongoing probing and self‐questioning—with which it is carried out (see, e.g., Moses and Knutsen 2007; Polkinghorne 1983; Schwartz‐Shea and Yanow 2009, 2012; Yanow 2009).…”

Section: Two Ways Of Knowingmentioning

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A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Public Administration Research Universe: Surviving Conversations on Methodologies and Methods

Haverland

Yanow

2012

Public Administration Review

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Scientific conversations can be riddled with confusion when contributions to the discussion are based on notions about ways of knowing that remain implicit. Researchers often mix different methodological positions in their research designs because they lack an awareness of the distinctions between different ways of knowing and their associated methods. The authors engage and reflect on these differences, with particular attention to four areas: research question formulations, the character and role of concepts and theories, hypotheses versus puzzles, and case study research. They call on all researchers, both academics and practitioners, to be aware of the ways in which scientific terms serve, in research debates, as signifiers of different logics of inquiry. Awareness of these differences is important for the sake of productive scientific discussions and for the logical consistency of research, as both of the ways of knowing discussed here are legitimate scientific endeavors, albeit invoking different evaluative criteria.

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“…One's entrance into the field marks a status‐changing event that is pivotal in forging a plausible ethnography. Entrance into the field orientates an ethnographer in the field and thus influences the entire period of fieldwork that follows (Harrington, , p. 594; Schwartz‐Shea & Yanow, , pp. 65–6).…”

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Entering the field in qualitative field research: a rite of passage into a complex practice world

Chughtai

Myers

2016

Information Systems Journal

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The concept of 'the field' is significant in ethnographic research as well as qualitative research methods more generally. However, how a field researcher enters the field is usually taken for granted after gaining access to the field. We suggest that entrance is a distinct phase of fieldwork that differs from negotiating access. Entrance is not a trivial event; rather, it is a rite of passage into a complex practice world and marks a critical field moment.Drawing on our ethnography and insights from hermeneutics and anthropology, we show that a practical understanding of the field represents a fusion of horizons where a fieldworker is thrown. The concept of thrownness highlights the fact that the fieldworkers' own historicity and prejudices affect their entrance into the field; hence entrance into the field orientates an ethnographer in the field and influences the entire period of fieldwork that follows. Our theorizing is intended as a contribution towards advancing the discussion of qualitative research methods.

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Reading and Writing as Method: In Search of Trustworthy Texts

Cited by 55 publications

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The longue durée of community engagement: New applications of critical theory in planning research

The longue durée of community engagement: New applications of critical theory in planning research

A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Public Administration Research Universe: Surviving Conversations on Methodologies and Methods

Entering the field in qualitative field research: a rite of passage into a complex practice world

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