Lennon Unsettling Research

Using Critical Praxis and Activism to Create Uncomfortable Spaces
1. Auflage 2014
ISBN: 978-1-4539-1434-2
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 14, 241 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Critical Qualitative Research

Unsettling Research investigates what can be learned from the journey of an insider activist researcher seeking social transformations around issues of gender in an isolated rural Australian community. Unique and risky in its undertaking, the research evolves to create a new discourse in qualitative research. A seamless bricolage of autobiography/ethnography, narrative, feminist theory, critical theory, media literacy, critical pedagogy, and social theory, this work takes qualitative research to the next level. It enacts the notion of social justice, while creating a new lens through which to view action via research … research via action. The author allows the personal to establish positionality, and then works from within her position to create a meta-perspective on dialogue, action, and community manifestations of power. The analytic component of the research couples an ongoing process of coming-to-know with a need to address a community issue. By developing a conceptual framework and a process for disclosing and dislocating ideological hegemony and its associated power imbalances, the research adds to knowledge in the fields of gender and education, social justice, and nascent activist pedagogies. Whilst the particulars are located in Australia, the book creates a global lens for qualitative activist research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lennon, Sherilyn

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Sozialisation, Soziale Interaktion, Sozialer Wandel
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Agrarsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: The Evolution of an Activist Study – Blurring Boundaries and Converging Fields – Mining and MorphingTheories to Conceptualize Complexity – Constructing a Study of Complexity – Deepening Understandings and Beginning to Unsettle Things – Using Activist Dialogues to Unsettle and Transform Thinking – Remining the Evidence in Search of Fresh Finds –Blurring Boundaries, Reconceptualizing Research, and Self-Discoveries.

Über Autor(innen)

Sherilyn Lennon (PhD, the University of Southern Queensland) received, amongst other awards, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor’s award for excellence in research. This is her first book. She divides her time between lecturing at Griffith University and living on a remote rural Australian property.