Ambivalent complicities and knowledge production
Researching migrant women farmers' reproductive health experiences in the middle belt of Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2250010 |
|---|---|
| Authors | J N Baada (0000-0001-5851-9233, Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada, corresponding author), Jessica Polzer (Department of Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies University of Western Ontario London Ontario Canada) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | S1 |
| Pages | 22-40 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociology of Health & Illness (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0141-9889 • E-ISSN: 1467-9566 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-9566.13407 |
| PMID | 34788480 |
| OpenAlex | W3212786911 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 28 |
Using a critical reflexive process (An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, 1992; Theory, Culture & Society, 13, 1996, 17), this article identifies and examines issues of power, complicity and knowledge production as they emerged in the first author's master's research on migrant women farmers' economic and reproductive health experiences in the middle belt of Ghana. We examine the ambivalent positionality of the international graduate student researcher as 'other of the other' (Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 30, 2005, 2017, p. 2025), and how diverse fields of power, including the researcher's educational institution and cultural norms regarding gender relations, mediated interactions among various actors in the research process. Specifically, we examine how the student researcher was complicit in reinforcing patriarchal standards, perpetuating western saviourism and committing symbolic violence. Situating these reflexive findings in relation to insights from feminist postcolonial theories, we highlight how power relations, gender and social class informed these ambivalent complicities. Rather than erase/silence these tensions in the research process, we argue that such ambivalences may be an inevitable dimension of transnational knowledge creation, and thus, it is imperative that researchers consider how their ambivalent positionalities and complicities may be navigated and leveraged most productively and with the least harm to research participants
Aesthetics · Ambivalence · Complicity · Harm · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Reflexivity · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Symbolic power · Gender Studies · Gender, Security, and Conflict · Law · Psychology · Sex work and related issues · Social Psychology · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
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Voice in qualitative inquiry
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Complicity, complexity, historicism
Under Western Eyes
An Invitation of Reflexive Sociology
Symbolic Power
Understanding
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Theorising class, health and lifestyles
Reducing symbolic-violence in the research encounter
A relational approach to health practices
Reconfiguring the Native Informant
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |