Status, gender and geography: power negotiations in police research

Belur, Jyoti

doi:10.1177/1468794112468474

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“…As well as nationality, race and gender, categories and identities relating to age, education level, class, skin colour, geo-political status and religion also stand out as sources of commonality and difference (Bilecen, 2014; Khambhaita et al, 2017; Mayorga-Gallo and Hordge-Freeman, 2016; O’Connor, 2004; Pechurina, 2014). Playing the role of a researcher in itself has been observed to create a salient point of difference, which may impact the power relationships between a researcher and a group of participants (Akerstrom, 2013; Belur, 2014; Dwyer and Buckle, 2009; Kusow, 2003; Lim, 2012; Ugwu, 2017), and/or any gatekeepers (Lund et al, 2015). Sources of power that can arise may relate to the researcher’s expert or referent sources of power, or from the legitimacy they may be seen to hold (Raven, 1993).…”

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Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

Collins

McNulty

2020

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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Insider researchers in international human resource management study not only the organisations or communities they may be members of, but also the people they perceive closeness with or with whom they share identities. The research context for insiders is rich but rarely problem-free. The uncertainty and dynamism of insider research often leaves insider researchers grappling with methodological and ethical challenges, but with no explicit framework to guide how they can be addressed in research practice or research reporting. Indeed, the ‘sanitised’ methodologies appearing in published work often do not reflect the complexity of the authors’ experience. In this article, we call for researchers to give more explicit consideration of what it means to research from an insider position, regardless of the research paradigm from which they work. The article addresses some of the messy details of insider research, drawing on personal accounts of our own research practice. We offer a framework of researcher personae as a tool for reflecting upon researchers’ insider positionality before, during and after data have been collected and analysed. Overall, we encourage researchers working from insider positions to adopt three practices: (1) to engage in reflexive consideration of the effects of (changing) positionality on their work as a way to strengthen the ethical and theoretical outcomes of research practice; (2) to acknowledge and leverage, rather than conceal, insiderness as a key strategy for making feasible more research on sensitive and ‘taboo’ topics; and (3) to make positionality explicit in research reporting in order to enhance the quality of insider research as well as enhance fieldwork learning more generally in the international human resource management field. While the personal accounts we share in this article are based on our research within the field of international human resource management, the intention is that it may also be of value to researchers in other fields.

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Section: What Does It Mean To Be An ‘Insider’?mentioning

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Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

Collins

McNulty

2020

German Journal of Human Resource Management: Zeitschrift für Pe

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“…Aware of the ethical concerns over deceiving participants (e.g. Belur ; McDowell ), I often disclosed my age, education, ethnicity and other personal information during the interviews. I was also open to talkimg about any topic that my participants were curious about as long as such a discussion would cause no harm to them or to other participants.…”

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Doing fieldwork the Chinese way: a returning researcher's insider/outsider status in her home town

Zhao

2017

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Insider/outsider status has been recognised in geographical literature as an important aspect of positionality on which researchers should reflect critically. Based on my fieldwork experience in Dali, southwest China, this paper articulates an account of the co‐existence of ‘insiderness’ and ‘outsiderness’ during the research process in a way that adds nuance to scholarly challenges to conceptions of insider/outsider status as an oppositional binary. I touch on several dilemmas that arose over the course of my fieldwork in my home town, such as working with local research assistants, ‘encountering’ a Western supervisor in the field and interviewing local people. I argue that interacting in the field with people from different ethnic, professional or socioeconomic characteristics dynamises a researcher's insider/outsider position, bringing his or her in‐between position to the fore. In this paper, I highlight the tensions and negotiations arising from my experience of in‐betweenness in Dali. I also point out several particularities of doing fieldwork in China by referring to Chinese ways of thinking and communication, and analyse how insiderness complicates the research process with particular regard to China. Finally, I conclude that working in the field is not only a process of data collection, but also a process of learning ‘who I am’.

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“…This process is closely related to learning about the power dynamics within the population of interest (Belur, 2014). While these distinctions may be an oversimplification of positions researchers face (Minh-Ha, 1997), Anthony's fieldwork was based on building relationships and trust with a population, while Danaher had connections with many participants and predominately negotiated creating professional distance.…”

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Rules of the road: doing fieldwork and negotiating interactions with hesitant public figures

Anthony

Danaher²

2015

Qualitative Research

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In this article, we address negotiating interactions with hesitant participants who are public figures, yet do not traditionally fit within the category of the advantaged. We target new field researchers and rusty veterans by offering an applied approach to: (1) preparing for the field; (2) managing interactions with hesitant participants via finding common ground while drawing lines, connecting with key informants, and expanding on public information; and (3) working through failed interviews. We discuss the importance of power relationships, positionality, and ethical standards, particularly in relation to negotiating similarities and differences between researchers and participants.

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Status, gender and geography: power negotiations in police research

Cited by 34 publications

References 31 publications

Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

Insider status: (Re)framing researcher positionality in international human resource management studies

Doing fieldwork the Chinese way: a returning researcher's insider/outsider status in her home town

Rules of the road: doing fieldwork and negotiating interactions with hesitant public figures

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