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

• Main Authors: Neumann, Cecilie Basberg (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Neumann, Iver B. (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: International relations.; Sociology-Research.; Political theory.; Sociology.; Phenomenology .; Culture-Study and teaching.; International Relations Theory.; Research Methodology.; Political Theory.; Gender Studies.; Phenomenology.; Cultural Theory.

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.

Table 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.