Secrecy and Silence in the Research Process

by Roisin Ryan-Flood

• ISBN13: 9780203927045
• ISBN10: 0203927044
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2013-05-13
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Researchers face difficult dilemmas about who to represent and how, what to omit and what to include. This book explores such questions in a fascinating collection of essays from international scholars making an important contribution to theoretical and empirical debates about epistemology, subjectivity and identity in qualitative research.

Table of Contents

Introduction Rosalind Gill and Ròisìn Ryan-Flood Section 1: Interpreting and Theorising Silence 1. Reconceptualising Secrecy and Silence Kath Weston 2. Choosing Silence: Rethinking Voice, Agency and Women's Empowerment Jane L. Parpart 3. Secrets, Silences and Toxic Shame in the Neoliberal University Rosalind Gill 4. Discursive Strategies: Searching for the Voice of Women in Diaries of the Second World War Sabine Grenz Section 2: The Unspoken in the Research Process 5. Silencing Differences: The 'Unspoken' Dimensions of 'Speaking for Others' Christina Scharff 6. Not Telling it How it is: Secrets and Silences of a Critical Feminist Researcher Bipasha Ahmed 7. Critiquing Thinness and Wanting to be Thin Debra Gimlin and Karen Throsby 8. Noticing Ourselves: Managing the Shifts between Participant and Researcher Selves in Dance Club and Party Research Sarah Riley and Yvette Morey Section 3: Silence, Secrecy and Telling Research Stories 9. Avoiding the 'R-Word': Racism in Feminist Collectives Kathy Davis 10. Negotiating Power and Vulnerability in Research with Children Suki Ali 11. Dirty Work: Researching Women and Sexual Representation Feona Attwood 12. Keeping Mum: Secrecy and Silence in Research on Lesbian Parenthood Ròisìn Ryan-Flood 13. Suppressing Intertextual Understandings: Negotiating Interviews and Analysis Ann Phoenix Section 4: Affective Dilemmas 14. Difficult Multiculturalism/Multicultural Difficulties: Researching Cultural Difference Ien Ang 15. The Silence of the Victim Bruna Seu 16. Where is the Love?: Searching for the Place of Love in Sexuality Research Lynda Johnston 17. Facing Death, Staying with the Living Kate Powis. Conclusion Rosalind Gill and Ròisìn Ryan-Flood