Lecture 5 ARM

Question 1

Reading around your topic

Answer 1

1.Need to be awareness of other literauture and
-USEexpertise
2. Topic across contexts
3. State of the art
4. Link to RQ

Question 2

Literature review

Answer 2

How to analyze other people’s ideas, those ideas that constitute the body of knowledge on the topic of your research

Should tell what is already know about your topic and how your RQ adds to our understanding about it

Question 3

Connection with RQ

Answer 3

Your RQis connected to your 1) research topic and 2) the existing literature on the topic

Question 4

Positionality!

Answer 4

The stance or positioning of the researcher in relation to the social and political context of the study -
the community, the organisation, or the participant group

Question 5

The reflexive turn in anthropology

Answer 5

• The poetics and politics of ethnography
• Consturction of ethnographic writing
• Innovations of new ways of thinking
• The culture concept

Check PP

Question 6

Reflexivity

Answer 6

Positionality is being aware of and stating their position in regards to a reseach design and topc

Reflexivity is putting their positionoality into practice - constant awareness, assessment by the researcher’s own contribution, influence, shaping of intersubjective research and the consequent reserach findings

Stem from critique against traditional ethongraphy of “ominiscent narration” - the god like voice stating stuff (naturalism/realism?) where the ethnographer considered themselves superior to the researched

Question 7

Intersectionality

Answer 7

Metaphor of understanding the ways multiple forms of inequality or disadvantage sometimes compound themselves and create obstacles that are often not understood among conventional ways of thinking

effects of multiple forms of discrimination and how they overlap, combine, or intersect - especially in the experiences of marginalised individuals or groups