Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- About the author
- About the book
- 1 Performing qualitative cross-cultural research: an introduction
- 2 Moral and ethical perspectives
- 3 The research participants: accessing and reciprocity
- 4 Cultural sensitivity: a responsible researcher
- 5 Insider/Outsider perspectives and placing issues
- 6 Cross-cultural communication and language issues
- 7 Personal and collective testimony
- 8 Local knowledge, local power and collective action
- 9 Writing and disseminating in cross-cultural research
- In closing …
- References
- Index
- References
5 - Insider/Outsider perspectives and placing issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- About the author
- About the book
- 1 Performing qualitative cross-cultural research: an introduction
- 2 Moral and ethical perspectives
- 3 The research participants: accessing and reciprocity
- 4 Cultural sensitivity: a responsible researcher
- 5 Insider/Outsider perspectives and placing issues
- 6 Cross-cultural communication and language issues
- 7 Personal and collective testimony
- 8 Local knowledge, local power and collective action
- 9 Writing and disseminating in cross-cultural research
- In closing …
- References
- Index
- References
Summary
Who can hear the voice of the colonized? Who might listen with authenticity, with sensitivity, with an open mind?
(Adler 2004: 107)Every path I/i take is edged with thorns. On the one hand, i play into the Savior's hands by concentrating on authenticity, for my attention is numbed by it and diverted from other important issues; on the other hand, i do feel the necessity to return to my so-called roots, since they are the fount of my strength, the guiding arrow to which i constantly refer before heading for a new direction.
(Minh-Ha 2006: 249)Rarely, do the people studied mistake the investigator for one of their own … But if you are there for some time, as a living, reacting fellow human being, rather than a human pretending to be a disembodied fly on the wall, the people you are studying will create a space, a role for you.
(Cassell 2002: 180)A generation ago, cross-cultural research was dominated by white researchers. Most researchers would either belong to white, middle-class backgrounds and travelled a long distance to ‘study’ native, or they would be local people or those who come from privileged positions such as university researchers doing a project with ethnic minority groups in their own countries. Recently, however, we have seen a growing number of scholars who carry out research among people who share their own cultural identity (see Bulmer & Solomos 2004; Ramji 2008).
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- Performing Qualitative Cross-Cultural Research , pp. 109 - 134Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010
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