Embodied reflexivity in voice-only interviewing: Navigating gender in difficult-to-access contexts

IF 3.2 1区 社会学 Q1 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Qualitative Research Pub Date : 2024-08-14 DOI:10.1177/14687941241264672
Muhammad Salman Khan
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This article reflects on my experiences as a male researcher using voice-only WhatsApp interviews to study women's affect and Taliban violence in Pakistan's Swat Valley. It considers the opportunities and constraints posed by doing research in supposedly disembodied online space. It also positions remote voice-only interviews as both embodied and embedded practices. This understanding situates the embodied reflexivity and gendered positionality of the researcher in relation to research participants—a relationship largely absent in online, qualitative voice-only interviewing literature. While internet-mediated settings do indeed offer some opportunities, their ability to circumvent gender boundaries is largely over-celebrated and has not received enough critical attention. I demonstrate why researcher feelings, positionality, and embodied reflexivity should be central concerns in post-COVID online, voice-only interviewing.
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纯语音访谈中的体现性反射:在难以接近的环境中驾驭性别问题
本文反映了我作为一名男性研究人员,使用 WhatsApp 语音访谈来研究巴基斯坦斯瓦特山谷妇女的情感和塔利班暴力的经历。文章探讨了在所谓的非实体网络空间进行研究的机遇和限制。它还将远程纯语音访谈定位为体现和嵌入式实践。这种理解将研究者的体现性反思和性别定位与研究参与者联系在一起--在线定性纯语音访谈文献中基本上没有这种关系。虽然以互联网为媒介的环境确实提供了一些机会,但其规避性别界限的能力在很大程度上被过度赞美,并没有得到足够的批判性关注。我将说明为什么研究者的感受、立场和体现的反身性应成为后 COVID 时代在线纯语音访谈的核心关注点。
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期刊介绍: Qualitative Research is a fully peer reviewed international journal that publishes original research and review articles on the methodological diversity and multi-disciplinary focus of qualitative research within the social sciences. Research based on qualitative methods, and methodological commentary on such research, have expanded exponentially in the past decades. This is the case across a number of disciplines including sociology, social anthropology, health and nursing, education, cultural studies, human geography, social and discursive psychology, and discourse studies.
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