Still methodologically becoming: collaboration, feminist politics and ‘Team Ismaili’

Houston, Serin D.; McLean, Duncan; Hyndman, Jennifer; Jamal, Arif

doi:10.1080/09663690903522339

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“…Collaborative research projects such as PAR have sometimes shown themselves to be messier and more laden with tensions than initially expected (Houston et al, 2010). The most emotional part of this project for us was dealing with the founder.…”

Section: Iterations Of An Academic Text: a Process Of Queer De-particmentioning

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Queer de-participation: reframing the co-production of scholarly knowledge

Bain

Payne

2015

Qualitative Research

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This article critically examines the play of power in the co-production of scholarly knowledge in the context of a queer, feminist Participatory Action Research (PAR) project. By unpacking the power relations inherent in crafting a narrative of a collective project for a broader audience, we consider the conflicts, silences, and erasures that we experienced as participants, gatekeepers, and co-authors. We analyze iterations of a co-produced conference and journal article papers to recall the power dynamics that framed and reframed the outcomes of this project. In so doing, we critique what ‘co-’ and ‘with’ actually mean in the practice of publishing queer feminist PAR. We argue that there is an accelerating process of de-participation and exclusion that can work to erode the progressive, inclusive politics of feminist participatory methodologies.

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Section: Iterations Of An Academic Text: a Process Of Queer De-particmentioning

confidence: 99%

Queer de-participation: reframing the co-production of scholarly knowledge

Bain

Payne

2015

Qualitative Research

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“…At times, the focus groups were just a point of reference in interviews; in other instances, they served as a point of comparison; and in still other moments, they provided the tacitly agreed upon dominant community narratives, which were upheld and reproduced in the interviews. We sought to collectively identify and examine the traffic between focus groups and interviews, and the phrase "focus group effects" helped us begin to highlight these connections (Houston, Hyndman, Jamal, & McLean, 2006).…”

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The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

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Hyndman

McLean

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Team research enables the collection of multiple, sometimes conflicting, stories of migration, family, and belonging. Using common qualitative methods within a team research context can stretch these research techniques in productive and instructive ways and proffer new insight and meaning.Therefore, the authors suggest that team research offers an important avenue for both extending qualitative methods and expanding interpretative lenses. To illustrate these points, the authors draw upon their study of the settlement and migration patterns of East African Shia Ismaili Muslims in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and discuss their experiences with focus group effects, the simultaneous household interview strategy, and postinterview dialogues. The article highlights how these three techniques and effects enacted in the team research context helped the authors explicitly locate contradictions, ambiguities, and paradoxes within the narratives of first-and second-generation Ismailis.Keywords collaborative team research; focus groups; household interviews; Ismailis; qualitative methods "Team Ismaili"l is a group of four geographers (at the time two master's students, one professor, and one instructor), who joined together as research collaborators in the summer of 2005 to explore transnational migrations and connections, family and community expectations, and identity expressions among East African Shia Ismaili Muslims 2 in Greater Vancouver, Canada. We approached these themes through focus groups and in-depth individual interviews with Ismailis who either forcibly or voluntarily left East Africa between 1970s and early 1990s (people we defined as first-generation Ismailis) and the adult Canadian-born children of these immigrants (defined as second-generation Ismailis).3 The contrasting and complementary stories of "Ismaili-ness" evident in the research archive grew to be a compelling focus within our study and prompted us to reflexively consider how our methods contributed to the gathering of disparate accounts. Therefore, in this article we discuss our experiences with focus group effects, the simultaneous household interview strategy, and postinterview dialogues. We highlight how stretching qualitative methods through the team research context helped us explicitly locate contradictions, ambiguities, and paradoxes within the narratives of first-and second-generation Ismailis. In other words, the meaning ofthe narratives about the Ismaili community became nuanced and textured through the teambased mobilization of our methods.The three methodological engagements that we discuss here provide the foundation for this article. With this in mind, first, we detail the literature on focus groups and discuss the emergence of various focus group effects in our research. We next turn to the simultaneous household interview strategy and outline how this technique offers glimpses into assorted intergenerational perspectives (Jamal, 2006;Pang, 1998). We conclude with examples from our postinterview dialogues. This stru...

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“…In geography, these concerns led to the feminist revalorization of fieldwork, once criticized as a key process in maintaining the masculine hegemony in the discipline (Rose, 1993). Many feminist geographers commit to the field not simply as a site of data collection, but as a site of co-constructing knowledge (McKay, 2002) and of implementing feminist politics (Nagar, 2002;Sharp, 2005;Houston et al, 2010). The feminist dilemmas numerously reported in the field, however, suggest that this is not a simple task; the problems concerned are not solely gendered, but engage multi-layered oppressions; there is a great gap not only between the researcher and the researched, but also among the researched.…”

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Let Their Voices Be Seen: Exploring Mental Mapping as a Feminist Visual Methodology for the Study of Migrant Women

Jung

2012

Int J Urban Regional Res

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This article explores how mental mapping can be used as a critical methodology for feminist migration studies. In a case study of female marriage migrants who settle in rural areas in South Korea from other Asian countries, I attempt to develop mental mapping to supplement verbal interviews. Mental maps of hometowns and current neighborhoods drawn by my interviewees represent their geographical imaginations and complex identity negotiations that mirror the change in their social locations. In order to understand multilayered meanings embedded in the images and the way in which power relations existent between the researcher and the researched affect the map production, I suggest a critical reading of the maps. The article shows how a reflexive and intertextual reading makes a difference to the interpretation of the maps. It argues that the maps are not mere reflections of the women's cognition, but rather socially constructed texts through which their desires, emotions, feelings and internal contradictions are expressed and negotiated. My research suggests that mental mapping, if ethically performed and critically evaluated, has potential as a means to convey the unheard voices of the marginalized to diverse audiences.

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Still methodologically becoming: collaboration, feminist politics and ‘Team Ismaili’

Cited by 9 publications

References 23 publications

Queer de-participation: reframing the co-production of scholarly knowledge

Queer de-participation: reframing the co-production of scholarly knowledge

The Methods and Meanings of Collaborative Team Research

Let Their Voices Be Seen: Exploring Mental Mapping as a Feminist Visual Methodology for the Study of Migrant Women

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