Pub Date : 2022-11-09DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2141669
Catalina Álvarez, Isabel Piper Shafir
This article proposes the Narrative Production Methodology (NPM) as a suitable methodology in the field of critical collective memory studies. Firstly, we discuss the narrative dimension of collect...
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Pub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2136553
Sebastián Collado, J. Barrientos, Marcela Ruiz Zúñiga
ABSTRACT This paper proposes a narrative-dialogic analysis strategy to study the relationship between gender/sex identity and mental health problems in the context of heteronormativity. This strategy is called listening to the embodied musicality of hetero-cisgender violence. Inspired by a narrative-dialogic theory of gender/sex identity development and applying methodological tools from dialogic and language-based mental health research, a novel strategy to analyze the relationship between gender/sex identity and mental health is developed. Data from a study conducted in Santiago de Chile with non-heterosexual masculinities is drawn on to exemplify this method. The analysis strategy has the capacity to study narrative meaning-making practices without reproducing traditional divides within the social sciences, such as the mind body split. The codes developed through the analysis strategy address the relationship between gender/sex identity and mental health, by highlighting the embodied emotional effects that hetero-cisgender violence and resistance against it have on narrative meaning-making practices. The analysis strategy presents a novel approach that addresses the embodied emotional texture of self-narratives, as opposed to more traditional dimensions commonly used in the study of the mental health of non-heterosexual people.
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Pub Date : 2022-11-02DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2135278
M. Montenegro, M. Balasch, J. Pujol
ABSTRACT The Narrative Productions’ Methodology emerges from Haraway’s epistemological and political concept of “situated knowledges”. According to this perspective, all knowledge emerges from semiotic and material conditions that give rise to a specific gaze, which diverges from both a gaze “from nowhere” – realism – and a gaze “from everywhere” – relativism. Unlike realist and relativist perspectives, the Narrative Productions’ Methodology reintroduces the notion of an “author” localized in a web of relations and speech genres. Furthermore, in the Narrative Productions’ Methodology, the alternative to the critique of the representation of others through the research act – typical of traditional research – consists in the possibility of partial connections with those close to the phenomenon under study. Thus, this methodology suggests that the research team connects with these positions over several sessions. This procedure will produce a hybrid text that expresses a certain way of understanding the phenomenon and guarantees the participants’ agency over the product. This article will introduce the fundamental principles of this methodology using a study on the events that happened in Barcelona in June 2001 on the occasion of the World Bank summit.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-12DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2121236
T. Morison
ABSTRACT Reproductive Justice has become somewhat of a buzzword, inspiring qualitative research on a range of sexual and reproductive issues. However, uptake in psychology has been somewhat slow, in part due to the absence of well-defined methodology and rigorous methods for applying a Reproductive Justice framework. Psychology research claiming a Reproductive Justice approach often lacks specificity regarding its underlying theoretical assumptions and how the chosen methodology enables Reproductive Justice analysis. Failing to engage with the theoretical foundations of Reproductive Justice or explicate how these inform one’s work can lead to underdeveloped application, deviation from the central principles, and misappropriation of Reproductive Justice Theory, thus failing to realise its radical potential. Accordingly, focusing on the application of Reproductive Justice in qualitative psychology research, I discuss three core theoretical antecedents of Reproductive Justice and present three corresponding approaches to application, illustrated with examples. The objective is to offer concrete analytical strategies for applying Reproductive Justice theory and to stimulate further thinking and discussion regarding how the theory might be fruitfully and rigorously used in qualitative research in psychology.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-11DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2118090
B. Ahmed, J. Challenor, M. Gerada, M. Lavie Ajayi, Aylish O’Driscoll, C. Willig, V. Eatough
ABSTRACT This paper presents a set of reflections on the process of conducting a qualitative pluralistic group research project. As our work progressed, we began to spend as much time discussing this group work process as we did focusing on our specific research topic. We begin by giving some background to how we got started and the research study itself as well as saying something about who the group is. We then describe our process and examine how we came to see that what we were doing shared a lot of similarities with forms of pluralistic research. We discuss some of the challenges and opportunities we faced along the way and end with some final thoughts on where we might go next. We argue that it is important to pay close attention to the research process as it plays a crucial role in shaping the insights that can be gained from a piece of research. This paper contributes to the growing literature on reflexivity in qualitative psychology in general and the exploration of the research process in in collaborative pluralistic research designs in particular.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-10DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2107967
E. Alessi, S. Kahn
ABSTRACT Qualitative researchers frequently conduct studies with individuals who have experienced various types of trauma, including those who have been historically marginalized and oppressed. However, in-depth discussions of how to conduct trauma-informed qualitative research do not exist. Thus, we lay the groundwork for a trauma-informed qualitative approach and then outline five guidelines for conducting research: (1) preparing for community entry: Learning about the impacts of traumatic events and historical trauma on individuals and communities; (2) preparing for the qualitative interview or focus group: Establishing safety and trust in the research environment; (3) extending safety and trust into the qualitative interview or focus group; (4) knowing when to change course to avoid re-traumatization in the interview or focus group; and (5) committing to regular and radical self-reflection and self-care in the research process. To demonstrate their applicability, we use an example from our own research with multiply-marginalized queer and transgender migrants in South Africa. This article advances the study of qualitative methods, offering researchers an opportunity to incorporate these guidelines into their study design and implementation to ensure participant safety and promote their resilience.
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Pub Date : 2022-07-07DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2097969
Lina Marcela Marín Moreno
ABSTRACT In this article we reflect, based on an investigation of heterogeneous struggles embodied by women in Valparaíso-Chile and Medellín-Colombia, on the contribution of intermediality to the process of creation of common knowledge carried out by the Narrative Productions Methodology, referred to as NPM. NPM consists in the production of Narratives that give an account of a phenomenon, which are then elaborated collaboratively between researchers and participants and made available to their communities and the concerned public. Intermediality reinforces the NPM’s process of production of common knowledge by combining repertoires of collective creation from heterogeneous elements -photographs, videos, illustrations, collage, among others- produced by the research participants and the communities involved in the processes of struggle. From a perspective situated in Latin American territories, we analyze how NPM generates common knowledge and how intermediality enables us to link the different ways of knowing and expressing of those communities that participate in the research for the Narratives.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-24DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2090468
Keiko M. McCullough, J. Lester
ABSTRACT Given the centrality of the visual to modern day life, this article introduces a visually informed approach to critical discursive psychology that facilitates the study of visual materials. We argue that the visual is a site where the social world is actively built and maintained, similar to what has been reasoned more generally about language use, and that critical discursive psychology can offer a rigorous approach to examining visual materials that can productively deepen our understanding of psychological concepts. As such, we integrate a consideration of visuality into critical discursive psychology theory, including a conceptualization of visual discourse and visual interpretative repertoires, provide tools for close readings of visual materials and guidance regarding how to employ these tools, and outline the process of identifying visual interpretative repertoires. We further connect these concepts to our previous experience carrying out this approach to inform future inquiries.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-22DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2090469
Nicole Sankofa
ABSTRACT Thick descriptions, or densely textured facts, rely heavily on the articulated reflections of participants, however, there are few methodical approaches to thick description that maximize participant reflection for deeper and more meaningful descriptions. This article explores participatory methods of thick description for a collaborative, co-constructed meaning-making process between researchers and co-researcher participants using an exemplar study that examines how a community arts organization defines and describes social capital as contextualized in their environment. A four-phase participatory thick description method is developed using an exemplar project with a non-profit community arts organization that explored their meaning-making of social capital. The four phases are pre-study tasks of examining researcher positionality and role, collective reflection, reflective interviewing, and integration of thick descriptions across co-researcher participants. The significance of this study is the use of multi-layered reflective practices for richer and more contextualized thick descriptions and a collaborative approach that elevates the voice of co-researcher participants to limit the subjective interjections of the researcher. Limitations and future directions of the participatory thick description method are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2022-05-06DOI: 10.1080/14780887.2022.2071785
Tanya Frances
ABSTRACT This article presents reflections on using the listening guide, focusing on reflexive work with voice poems. It is based on research which explored the stories of ten young adult women who experienced parental domestic abuse in childhood. A dialogical theory is used to reflect on the process of working with three voice poems, showing that we engage with the material we work with in embodied, emotional, and personal ways. It considers working with voice poems as a ‘way in’ to our own stories and selves, by way of moving beyond empathy and attending to discomfort as a bodymind reflexive practice. Reflexivity is therefore not a mind-based activity that relies on declaring and engaging with a unitary self. Rather, researchers are dialogical selves that are both affected by, and that affect, the material we work with. This has implications for domestic abuse research where survivor-victim voices tend to be smoothened out resulting in dominant, binary narratives that risk reproducing epistemic injustices. This article concludes that poetic inquiry can be considered a method of resistance to such epistemological injustices, using bodymind reflexive engagement with our own selves, and examining the implications of this for knowledge production.
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