Power, Culture and Situated Research Methodology - Autobiography, Field, Text

This book explores the extent to which our lives become an important underlying context for data production. Drawing on insights from Gestalt psychology, feminism and post-structuralism, it discusses how to situate yourself in the different phases of research.

List of contents

1. Introduction .- 2. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness, in-field situatedness, post-field text situatedness .- 3. A century of thinking about situatedness: The Gestalt tradition .- 4. Conceptual inspiration from the Gestalt tradition .- 5. Interview techniques .- 6. Pre-field autobiographic situatedness and post-field textual situatedness .- 7. Philosophy of science: two ways of going about situatedness .- 8. Conclusion: Culture, power, ethics.

About the author

Cecilie Basberg Neumann is Associate Professor in Sociology at Oslo and Akershus University College of Applied Sciences, Norway. She is also a Gestalt therapist from the Norwegian Gestalt Institute in Oslo.

Iver B. Neumann is Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the author (with Kevin Dunn) of Discourse Analysis for Social Research.

Product details

• Authors: Cecilie Basber Neumann, Cecilie Basberg Neumann, Iver B Neumann, Iver B. Neumann
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2018
• EAN: 9783319865720
• ISBN: 978-3-31-986572-0
• No. of pages: 115
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 210 mm x 11 mm
• Weight: 172 g
• Illustrations: VII, 115 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; C, Gender Studies, Sociology, Cultural Studies, Phenomenology, Cultural Theory, International Relations, Political Theory, Political science & theory, Political Science and International Studies, research methodology, Gender studies, gender groups, Social research & statistics, International Relations Theory, Culture—Study and teaching, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Sociology—Research, Sociological Methods