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“Methodology and Reflexivity”,
Gender, Ethnicity and Place: Womenand Identities in Guyana”
‘Gender and Development: Principles and Concepts’
Linda Peake & D. Alissa Trotz
Group presentation by:
Abdul Kader Nazmul, Ria Permana Sari, Chaw Su Ma, Ma Kebu
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Outline
Guyana at a Glance Methods
Comparison of the Research Methods of Alissa
and Linda Feminist Research Methodology
Reflexivity
Practicing Reflexivity by Linda and Alissa Surprise Show
Questions
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Guyana
a former colony of the British, Dutch and for abrief period, the French.
Gu ana achieved inde endence from UK on 26
May,1966 and became a Republic on 23February, 1970
Ethnic groups : Indo-Guyanese (43.5%), Afro-
Guyanese (30.2%), mixed (16.7%), Aboriginal(10%), others (European, Chinese).
Source: Wikipedia
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Method
Methods – the actual tools that we use todo research.
• Face-to-Face interviews
• Surveys
• Non-participative observations
• Participative observation
• Experiments
• Secondary data
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Comparison of Alissa’s and Linda’s Research Methods
Alisa Linda
Research Purpose PhD project Research Project
Target Area Albouystown (Guyana) Meten Meer Zorg East & Linden
(Guyana)
Target Groups • Female (head of HH, partner of HH) • Eldest women• Men
Survey Design and
Implementation
• cooperation with ANDA & AWSG
• pilot survey
• questionnaire survey
• cooperation with Red Thread
• training for the Red Thread
• interview with snowball sampling
In-depth Interviews • 20 women (10 Afro-Guyanese & 10
Indo- Guyanese women)
• Semi structured interviews
• Did not record (was not allowed as the
respondents did not feel comfortable),
just took notes and added her own
observations
• Other women and children also
participated in the interviews or
discussions
• Interviews ranged from 6-14 hours and
were spread over several visits
• topic
• 15 Afro-Guyanese & 15 Indo-
Guyanese women
• Semi structured interviews
• Taped and transcribed
• Other women and children also
participated in the interviews or
discussions
• Interviews varied in length from 3- 8
hours and sometimes included more
than 1 visit.
• topic
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Alisa Linda
Secondary
Research Methods
• Participant observation
techniques
• a small snowball survey
Discussion with a variety of
individuals
Comparison of Alisa and Linda’s Research Methods (cont..)
Data analysis Statistical Package for the SocialSciences (SPSSX)
SPSSX
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Alissa’s topic
• Women’s childhood• Employment
• Residential
• Child bearing and relationship histories• Patterns of decision making & budgeting
• Household division of labour
• Kinship networks & participation in
organizations
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Linda’s topic
• Family history
• Education received
• Em lo ment histor
• Present household• Children
• Views on marriage, family & sexuality
• Views on community activities, politics & ethnicity• Thought of their changed lives over the last decade
• Access to health care & other services
• Expectation for the future
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Feminist Research Methodology
The method used in feminist research
The difference lies in the methodology
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Feminist Research Methodology
Seek to reveal and overcome androcentricbiases in research.
.
Seek to represent human diversity.
Acknowledge the positionality of the
researcher.
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Reflexivity
• An important part of feminist research methodology• Leads to a critical consciousness of the relationship
between the researcher and the researched.
• o a s or erm process. ea y s ou a e p acealong the research process continuum.
“ Reflexivity at one level is a self-critical action whereby the
researcher finds that the world is mediated by the self. It
means what can be known, can only be known through
oneself, one's lived experiences, one's biography.”
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Practicing Reflexivity
How can we practice reflexivity?
The practice of reflexivity can bring alternative form of knowledge into public discourse.
1. Know your standpoint prior to entering the research studyor project
2. Evaluate your positionality and role in the field.
3. Check and monitor your relationship with participants.
4. Listen to your participants.5. Listen to your self
6. Be attentive to the differences.
7. Reflexively investigate or interrogate your data or
information.
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Picturing Women
The identity of Linda and Alissa as a white British
women and a black/ mixed Guyanese women aremerged in the authorial ‘we’; simultaneously a
fiction and desire to highlight both the impurity of
experience and the transformation of their ownsubjectivities that has taken places in the process of
the research
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Border-crossing
• Closing the gap between researcher and
researched
• Using mediator to close the gap• Alissa and Linda address each of their experiences
to illustrate the different nature of the problems
they encountered in their engagement in themutual process of transforming subjectivities.
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Linda’s Practice of Reflexivity
Linda’s awareness of the mutual constitution of identities and
the painful possibilities of transformation.
Mapping project (Learned from the comparison of Susan’s and
Linda’s Map)
Linda became self-conscious about the specificity of her ownposition by creating alternative interpretations of colonial
histories and geographies
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Alissa’s Practice of Reflexivity
Alissa realized that complete access to a community
.
Acknowledging her positionality can strengthen her
commitment to conduct good research based on
building relations of mutual respect and recognition.
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Surprise Show
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References
Bird, Sharon., Feminist Method of Research, available online on
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ucation/Presentation%20on%20Feminist%20Methods%20of%20Research.ppt (retrieved on 14 Oct., 2010)
Letherby, Gayle., 2003, “Doing It For Ourselves: feminist research as
theory in action” in Feminist Research in Theory and Practice.
Wikipedia (http://wikipedia.com) (retrieved on 14 Oct., 2010).