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Researching Race and Ethnicity provides an innovative discussion of the methodological, epistemological and ethical challenges of doing qualitative research that is informed by questions of ‘race’, ethnicity and social difference. By identifying and challenging ‘categorical thinking’ and many longstanding assumptions about the meanings of ‘race’ and ethnicity, the author gets to the heart of many of the everyday dilemmas and difficulties that researchers confront in the field, but are rarely theorised or openly discussed.
Chapter 8 Towards multi-sited research: connection, juxtapositioning and complicity
Chapter 8 Towards multi-sited research: connection, juxtapositioning and complicity
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In this final chapter, I engage with ideas generated in ethnography about ‘multi-sited’ research - an approach that advocates the need for researchers to trace both the local and the wider connections of research interactions, across different cultural and discursive spaces. These ideas provide a reflexive analytic framework for discovering and making links between the micro-interactions of research encounters and broader contexts. Multi-sited research involves a politics of connection that is particularly relevant to research concerned with ‘race’ and ethnicity, where many different sites of experience and knowledge/power can come together, unravel and have unique effects within research interactions.
The preceding chapters have been concerned with addressing key debates, dilemmas and practices in research concerned with questions ...
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