The Politics and Ethics of Representation in Qualitative Research: Addressing Moments of Discomfort

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Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Contributors Introduction Representation, solidarity and accountability in qualitative research Overview of the book References Chapter 1: Becoming ‘Unstuck’ Among Positionalities, Terms and Disciplines via Conversation (With Myself): Exploring Potentials for Affective Reflexivity in Critical Intersex Studies Reconstructing my discomfort with terminology 3 as a PhD candidate in 2012 and onwards Still struggling as a PhD candidate in 2015 A couple of months later in 2015 Reflecting over reflexivity in retrospect: From 2019 and onwards Notes References Chapter 2: ‘To say no wasn’t something we could do’: Reflexive accounts and negotiations of the ethical practice of informed consent during the research process and beyond Research topic and challenges of the recruitment procedure Fake phone numbers and on-and-off communication: a timeline Complexities and contradictions of consent in theory and practice What happens to consent when the interview ends? Concluding remarks Note References Chapter 3: Creating knowledge through community theatre: No Border Musical and the making of representations Theatre and the politics of representation A short note on activist research Experiences of migration control on stage ‘Right kind’ of visibility Tensions in the making of representations Conclusion Notes References Chapter 4: Waiting: The shrouded backbone of ethnographic research The tension between neoliberal time and the pursuit of ‘real ethnography’ Waiting to enter the research sites Waiting with and for the participants inside research sites Conclusion Notes References Chapter 5: Middle-classness: Research object and fieldwork performance Middle-classness in different places Directions: Studying sideways and matching strategies Unseen areas when studying sideways and trying to match Matching gendered respectability Unrespectable questions and answers: Fieldwork performances of gendered middle-class respectability To dress up and paint a picture of oneself Using or telling the self Conclusion: Unravelling the stitches References Chapter 6: Dilemmas of representation in a study of social workers: Analyzing non-evident forms of social transformation Prologue: The theme of my thesis Introduction: Discomfort of representation Background: Social work and borders in a Swedish context Dilemmas of disembodied representation Representing social workers’ dual positions Concluding remarks: Tensions that helped me forward Epilogue: Changing border regimes, changing representations Notes References Chapter 7: The ethics of renaming: On challenges and dilemmas of anonymization in a study of anti-Muslim racism The study and situating the practice of anonymization in different disciplinary traditions Erasing names Renaming Names and the anxiety of representation Names and racism Speaking in one’s own name Notes References Chapter 8: Caring encounters in ethnographic research: Unlearning distance and learning sharing Emergence of this text Caring dialogues Reciprocities of care Caring is sharing Notes References Afterword Epilogue: What the Collective has meant to us References Index