Pub Date : 2023-08-03DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186583
Graham Francis Badley
In this article, I select a number of Enlightenment figures and suggest that, despite inevitable contradictions, they should still serve as exemplars for a modern age of a series of values such as freedom, tolerance, and social justice. I believe, however, that The Enlightenment is, nevertheless, a work in progress.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-27DOI: 10.1177/10778004231188054
Clementine Collett
When conducting qualitative research on elites, researchers often face issues regarding time-constraints, power asymmetries, and rapport building. In this article, I outline the methodological concept of “the hustle” so that we might better understand how these issues intersect and how the difficulty to access elites for interviews alters research and researcher. The hustle is defined as the pushing or jostling of the qualitative researcher in the face of resistance to access research settings or participants. Inspired by my own hustle when researching elites who design AI recruitment technology (AI-rec-tech), I argue that the hustle has four major effects: first, it requires the researcher to act as networker; second, it influences how much data can be collected; third, it dictates research design; and fourth, it alters interview dynamics. The hustle is an important conceptual umbrella which draws together themes which have arisen in qualitative research on elites for decades.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-22DOI: 10.1177/10778004231188048
Laura Yvonne Bulk, B. Collins
Insider research poses a range of benefits and challenges for researchers and the communities being researched. It is commonly advocated for disability research but there is limited work exploring disabled researchers’ experiences. Influenced by autoethnography and through a process of asynchronous structured conversations, we reflected on our experiences as two blind researchers. Through our collective reflective process and analysis, we created three main themes: insider research is complex and subjective, there is judgment about the “right” thing to do, and insider research requires “different” work. We argue that insiderness is more than sharing characteristics: it is a situated, fluctuating, and “felt” experience. The complexities, judgments, and emotional labor associated with insider research can challenge researchers in potentially very personal and unexpected ways. We propose that further investigation is required about how researchers can best prepare for, engage ethically throughout, and be supported through the insider research process.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-21DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186570
K. Borchard
This article is an assemblage of thematically inter-relatable quotations promoting critically oriented, non-linear complexity of thought. The quotes concern: recent derailments and safety protocols; what trains carry; ideas about linearity, sequence, and simultaneity; environmental issues; trains used in genocide, race-based segregation and exploitation, and immigration; trains communicating art, symbols, and meaning; and quotes from literary figures, artists, and social theory. A central question emerges: Do the contents and arrangements of our (ever longer) cause-and-effect chains together constitute globally indeterminate, unanticipated consequences and both random and systemic interconnectivity, bridging industrial and post industrial eras, networks, and concerns?
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Pub Date : 2023-07-19DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186565
Keondria McClish-Boyd, K. Bhattacharya
This article extends the previous conversation around endarkened narrative inquiry, a culturally situated approach informed by Black feminist thought, womanism, endarkened feminist epistemology, and narrative inquiry. In this article, we reclaim narrative in the context of a methodological process that centers Black women-centric ontoepistemologies, informed by theoretical perspectives and existing literature, to focus on Black women’s ways of storying their lives. We also discuss the creation of wisdom whisper as a methodological consideration for data collection. Finally, we reflect on the methodological mentoring and negotiations that took place to culturally situate this methodology and offer a method of inquiry aligned with a Blackness-centered framework of analysis.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186569
J. Scott Baker
This article examines the perspectives of 18 preservice teachers in a Midwest, USA university teacher preparation program through poetic inquiry. The polyvocal poetry, created from the transcripts of two focus groups, explores the emotional health and well-being of preservice teachers in their field placements amid crisis, such as the COVID pandemic, systemic racism, and the resulting mental health and financial strains facing students in the aftermath. This article further contemplates a researcher’s need to maintain authenticity while working closely with evocative data to construct polyvocal poetry.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-18DOI: 10.1177/10778004231186564
Serge F. Hein
Most qualitative social justice research is guided by a critical theory–based understanding of justice, which conceives of justice as something that can be achieved, made present. For Derrida, however, justice can never arrive, be present; it is in fact impossible. Justice always exceeds our specific expectations of the future. Derrida’s second definition of deconstruction, which deals with the unstable relationship between justice and law, is examined, followed by a discussion of the deconstructibility of the law and the undeconstructibility of justice. Derrida’s concept of justice is ontological, whereas critical theory’s concept of justice is epistemological. For Derrida, and continental philosophy in general, however, epistemology has its ultimate basis in ontology. An important implication of Derrida’s concept of justice for critically informed qualitative social justice research is that justice cannot function as a guiding principle or ideal. Thus, the call to justice is an infinite one that researchers can never satisfy.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-14DOI: 10.1177/10778004231184421
A. Alejandro, Longxuan Zhao
The growing interest in combining different approaches to qualitative text and discourse analysis has so far not been met with adapted methodological resources. This article aims to address this gap by developing a methodological framework for combining qualitative text and discourse analysis. First, we introduce four traditions that we identify as four families of methods of text/discourse analysis with different logics: Discourse Analysis, Foucauldian Discourse Analysis, Thematic Analysis, and Qualitative Content Analysis. Second, we review the literature to show how these methods have been combined across disciplines and case studies. Third, we build upon existing literature to unpack the benefits and challenges of multi-method text/discourse analysis, and offer strategies to help navigate the problems that may arise. Overall, this article introduces multi-method qualitative text and discourse analysis (MMQTDA) as a methodological framework to provide guidance and offer solid foundations for an emerging methodological conversation in qualitative text research.
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Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183943
Ioannis Costas Batlle, Kia Banks, Josie Rodohan, B. Clift, S. Bekker
This article focuses on the development of a community of practice (CoP) for qualitative doctoral researchers at the University of Bath (UK). Although the sources of support that qualitative doctoral researchers can access have grown substantially across the United Kingdom, United States, Australia, and South Africa (e.g., supervisor meetings, discrete courses, and standalone workshops), they generally remain “disjointed,” forcing qualitative doctoral researchers to individually navigate these “siloed” sources. In this article, we describe our solution to the problem—creating a doctoral CoP capable of “connecting the dots”—by drawing on 3 years of experience leading the CoP. We focus and reflect on our facilitation approach, session design, and challenges faced with the goal of sharing “best practice.”
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Pub Date : 2023-07-11DOI: 10.1177/10778004231183948
Malcolm Tight
All qualitative researchers are familiar with the idea of saturation: that researchers should continue to collect and/or analyze data until nothing new is being added to their arguments or conclusions. Saturation is, however, used and understood in a variety of ways, often appearing as an unevidenced and dogmatic statement seeking to justify that a piece of research is complete. This article explores the application of the idea of saturation in qualitative research, noting its association with grounded theory and the particular interest taken in it by health researchers. It concludes that it is both a misunderstood and an overworked concept.
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