Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (12 Seiten)
Publ. der Quelle:
London : Sage Publishing
Angaben zur Quelle:
23
DDC:
300
Keywords:
insider/outsider
;
field research
;
positionality
;
social justice
;
intersectional transnegritude
;
Sozialwissenschaften
Abstract:
This article explores the challenges and complexities of a cross cultural PhD student conducting research in West Africa. I discuss how I navigated, negotiated and blurred my insider/outsider experiences as a Congolese-American woman as I engaged with themes oscillating between power, legitimacy, language, gender, and my decolonial and social justice commitments. Reflexive research on Africans studying a secondary non-native African country is seldom discussed or researched. As such, I utilised an intersectional transnegritude theoretical framework to centre and complicate the shared transcolonial struggles and neocolonial realities of myself and my participants. I conclude by positing that, despite the challenges of doing transnational work, reflexively recognising our positionality lends to a liberatory and critical transnational exchange that encourages new approaches to knowledge production for social justice. This article contributes to ongoing discussions of insider/outsider research, positionality, decolonising research, and comparative case study to articulate and dearticulate power dynamics in neocolonial contexts.
Abstract:
Peer Reviewed
DOI:
10.1177/16094069231200335
URN:
urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/29640-2
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