Artikel
If the shoe fits : authenticity, authority and agency feminist diasporic research
Verfasst von:
Henry, Marsha
in:
Women's studies international forum
2007
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Heft:
1
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70 - 80 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Henry, Marsha |
| In: | Women's studies international forum |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Heft: | 1 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The author argues that the centrality of the white, western, middle-class academic as a dominant model of feminist researcher poses considerable difficulties for researchers who are racially and ethnically marginalised within their home communities. The authority that she was expected to demonstrate as a western researcher, seemed surprisingly absent in many of her research encounters. Her authenticity as a westerner or non-westerner was challenged both at home and in the field making hybridity and hyphenated identity a compelling option. Her abilities to exercise agency in the research process were complicated by my attempts to fill the shoes of a feminist researcher that did not reflect her different social and institutional positioning. Marsha Henry argues that diasporic researchers might be better prepared for research by acknowledging the ways in which they are academically positioned both at the centre and at the margins, at home and in the field. In addition, training and preparation that recognises difference and acknowledges multiple positionalities contributes to a politicisation of race and ethnicity in the context of not only university spaces, but feminist communities. | |
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Literaturverz. S. 79 - 80 Signaturstamm: R 12 |
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