“Techniques to be respected as a human being!”: moving beyond the binary of strategies and tactics

Sereke, Wegahta B.; Drzewiecka, Jolanta A.

doi:10.1080/01419870.2023.2259465

Ethnic and Racial Studies

2023

DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2023.2259465

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“Techniques to be respected as a human being!”: moving beyond the binary of strategies and tactics

Wegahta B. Sereke,

Jolanta A. Drzewiecka

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‘Are you a refugee like us? Oh then we have hope!’ Affective discursive encounters in doing insider Other research

Sereke

2023

Migration Studies

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In this article, I reflect on how paying attention to the flow of affect between participants and the researcher during interviews unveils knowledge that highlights inequalities and advances a decolonial approach. I specifically discuss the capacity of productive discomfort in revealing valuable insights about the lived experiences of forced migrants and in uncovering knowledge that might otherwise stay hidden. In doing so, I demonstrate how my positionality as an ‘insider Other’ and my approach to interviews as affective encounters open up profound layers of experiences and sense-making. Expanding upon this, the study presents a unique framework that combines the method of interviews, conceptualized as situated affective encounters, with an affective-discursive analytical framework that views affect as intertwined with meaning and discourse. This fusion emphasizes the significance of emotions as a source of knowledge in the research process. The study highlights how this approach contributes to the reflexivity turn in migration studies and elucidates how the combined framework can guide researchers to work with discomfort. This can be a source of insight, as demonstrated by reflecting on my own research on the lived experiences of Eritrean migrants. I use several excerpts from my data to demonstrate how viewing emotions as meaningful leads to nuanced interpretations, thereby enriching insights into the living conditions of those who arrived as forced migrants.

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‘Are you a refugee like us? Oh then we have hope!’ Affective discursive encounters in doing insider Other research

Sereke

2023

Migration Studies

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Saving one's face while saving one's soul? The refraction of tactical approaches to penance as a disciplinary device in Counter‐Reformation Italy

Zampieri

2024

British Journal of Sociology

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Sociohistorical research suggests that religious discourses and practices have been powerful in producing disciplined lines of conduct. Typically, however, this work has only considered the long‐term consequences of discursive shifts or the one‐sided outcomes of disciplinary practices. In contrast, this paper shows how the creative appropriation of disciplinary devices can instigate their transfiguration into additional disciplinary tools. By examining manuals for confession published in Counter‐Reformation Italy, I identify three tactics via which believers allegedly approached Sacramental Penance as an impression management tool. The authors of these cultural objects detected the diffusion of these tactics and circulated their depictions to alert confessors and stigmatize believers who enacted them. These findings suggest that the theorizing of disciplining processes has to consider how the tactical appropriation of disciplinary practices can trigger processes of refraction via which their negative representations are reified and circulated as further disciplinary tools.

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“Techniques to be respected as a human being!”: moving beyond the binary of strategies and tactics

Cited by 2 publications

References 36 publications

‘Are you a refugee like us? Oh then we have hope!’ Affective discursive encounters in doing insider Other research

‘Are you a refugee like us? Oh then we have hope!’ Affective discursive encounters in doing insider Other research

Saving one's face while saving one's soul? The refraction of tactical approaches to penance as a disciplinary device in Counter‐Reformation Italy

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