Lucinda Carspecken
Biographic Data
| ID | 137257 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lucinda Carspecken |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lucinda |
| FAMILY NAME | Carspecken |
| SIGNATURE | CARSPECKEN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8237-7853 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Historical Methods in Qualitative Research
How do we find our way among the mass of information from the human past? Historical methods, like other kinds of navigation, involve creativity as well as description. A Maori oral history tells of the traveler, Kupe, who tracked the night sky to cross the Pacific, steering his boat more than two thousand miles from Tahiti to the land now known as New Zealand.
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars
Autoethnography and autobiography are powerful means to link personal experience with cultural and political contexts. In this Note, I argue for blurring the boundaries between the two research genres. I discuss memoirs from the United States, England and Egypt-by Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Nawal El Saadawi-noting their approaches to truth and their narrative strategies. The authors were social activists and public intellectuals, whose w…
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
From lines to circles: Love as a component of validity
In this paper, we argue that love is not only compatible with validity in social inquiry but is an essential part of it. The work of coming to know others is similar to the work of emotional relationship, and the two overlap. We argue that these activities are core both to valid studies and to love. The epistemological understanding of love in our ethnography goes beyond rational and objective notions of research. It includes them but it acknowle…
Beyond the Boundaries: Exploring the Identity-Related Experiences of Biracial/Multiracial and Bisexual Adults
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography
This contemporary feminist ethnography draws on in-depth ethnographically-anchored lifestory interviews with loved ones and uses digital media (such as ArcGIS) to expand the ethnographic collection around the globe. Members of the FRC conceived of the WomenWeLove Project as an opportunity for the lesser-told stories of six ordinary women from different places to take center stage. By digitizing the stories, researchers and participants are able t…
The many voices of pilgrimage and reconciliation
This book offers multiple voices and viewpoints on pilgrimage, covering both spiritual and non-spiritual voyages and in particular the theme of reconciliation in all of its many dimensions. The book has 15 chapters presented in three parts with the following headings: (i) peace, human rights and justice; (ii) reconciliation within; and (3) religious and secular perspectives. The book includes case studies of pilgrimage in action from around the w…
Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common g…
The Unbounded Self: Peak Experiences and Border Crossings in Southern Indiana
In early visits to Lothlorien-which is a loosely Pagan community of environmentalists in Indiana-I was confounded by attempts to categorize either the place or the people. As one of the founders said, "I tend to run from labels so I don't know what I am. It's safer that way." In this paper I explore four members' narratives about the emotional high points in their lives, where they often cross the usual boundaries of self and other. At the same t…
Beyond the Boundaries: Exploring the Identity-Related Experiences of Biracial/Multiracial and Bisexual Adults
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography
This contemporary feminist ethnography draws on in-depth ethnographically-anchored lifestory interviews with loved ones and uses digital media (such as ArcGIS) to expand the ethnographic collection around the globe. Members of the FRC conceived of the WomenWeLove Project as an opportunity for the lesser-told stories of six ordinary women from different places to take center stage. By digitizing the stories, researchers and participants are able t…
From lines to circles: Love as a component of validity
In this paper, we argue that love is not only compatible with validity in social inquiry but is an essential part of it. The work of coming to know others is similar to the work of emotional relationship, and the two overlap. We argue that these activities are core both to valid studies and to love. The epistemological understanding of love in our ethnography goes beyond rational and objective notions of research. It includes them but it acknowle…
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
The Unbounded Self: Peak Experiences and Border Crossings in Southern Indiana
In early visits to Lothlorien-which is a loosely Pagan community of environmentalists in Indiana-I was confounded by attempts to categorize either the place or the people. As one of the founders said, "I tend to run from labels so I don't know what I am. It's safer that way." In this paper I explore four members' narratives about the emotional high points in their lives, where they often cross the usual boundaries of self and other. At the same t…
The Unbounded Self: Peak Experiences and Border Crossings in Southern Indiana
In early visits to Lothlorien-which is a loosely Pagan community of environmentalists in Indiana-I was confounded by attempts to categorize either the place or the people. As one of the founders said, "I tend to run from labels so I don't know what I am. It's safer that way." In this paper I explore four members' narratives about the emotional high points in their lives, where they often cross the usual boundaries of self and other. At the same t…
The many voices of pilgrimage and reconciliation
This book offers multiple voices and viewpoints on pilgrimage, covering both spiritual and non-spiritual voyages and in particular the theme of reconciliation in all of its many dimensions. The book has 15 chapters presented in three parts with the following headings: (i) peace, human rights and justice; (ii) reconciliation within; and (3) religious and secular perspectives. The book includes case studies of pilgrimage in action from around the w…
Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research
Love in the Time of Ethnography explores love – variously defined – as an important facet of human life and a worthy focus of study. The authors look at love in association with an Alevi and Sunni couple in Turkey, organizers of Mexican American and immigrant youth movements, Christian missionaries in China, an elderly man with dementia, two women “coming home” to queer identity, a White researcher working with Black women in the US, the common g…
Digital Migrating and Storyworlding with Women We Love: A Feminist Ethnography
This contemporary feminist ethnography draws on in-depth ethnographically-anchored lifestory interviews with loved ones and uses digital media (such as ArcGIS) to expand the ethnographic collection around the globe. Members of the FRC conceived of the WomenWeLove Project as an opportunity for the lesser-told stories of six ordinary women from different places to take center stage. By digitizing the stories, researchers and participants are able t…
From lines to circles: Love as a component of validity
In this paper, we argue that love is not only compatible with validity in social inquiry but is an essential part of it. The work of coming to know others is similar to the work of emotional relationship, and the two overlap. We argue that these activities are core both to valid studies and to love. The epistemological understanding of love in our ethnography goes beyond rational and objective notions of research. It includes them but it acknowle…
Beyond the Boundaries: Exploring the Identity-Related Experiences of Biracial/Multiracial and Bisexual Adults
Writing strategies in autoethnography and memoir: Methodological legacies from three activist-scholars
Autoethnography and autobiography are powerful means to link personal experience with cultural and political contexts. In this Note, I argue for blurring the boundaries between the two research genres. I discuss memoirs from the United States, England and Egypt-by Ida B. Wells, Sylvia Pankhurst, and Nawal El Saadawi-noting their approaches to truth and their narrative strategies. The authors were social activists and public intellectuals, whose w…
Feminist Collective Interpretation: Interpretation as Analysis
Interpretation is a key aspect to any qualitative research process. Inherent in analysis, researchers must ask what informs interpretations and whose interpretations are accepted as reality. These questions call attention to power and its connection with interpretational practices, while some might argue that it would be impossible to render any interpretations that are data. In this article, we describe our own feminist, collective analytic inte…
Historical Methods in Qualitative Research
How do we find our way among the mass of information from the human past? Historical methods, like other kinds of navigation, involve creativity as well as description. A Maori oral history tells of the traveler, Kupe, who tracked the night sky to cross the Pacific, steering his boat more than two thousand miles from Tahiti to the land now known as New Zealand.
Sociology (8 works) · History (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethnography (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)